Debating the Edge
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Democrats believe a good debate performance by Mitt Romney explains his resurgence in the polls; many Americans (especially the jobless) will say otherwise
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Aside from a bump in the polls, one of the best things to come out of Mitt Romney’s perceived strong debate performance last week is watching Liberals like the MSNBC crew go into a full-scale panic (if Ed Schultz hasn’t yet soiled his undergarments, he will do so in short order).
The standard line that is being peddled by Democrats and unfortunately accepted by many Republicans is that Mr. Romney’s debate performance is the reason for his bounce in the polls. To be sure, he was near his A-game in delivery and form. And the fact that he finally got to describe Mr. Obama’s actual record in office (something the media will not do) as well as his own agenda certainly helped clear the air and show the true alternative to the status quo and not the caricatured one.
President Obama is more concerned about the well-being of Big Bird than the 23 million unemployed Americans
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But the dismal reality of what Mr. Obama has forced upon this country (ObamaCare, job-killing regulations) resulting in the historical non-recovery we’re in seems to be the primary driver of why many are choosing to support the challenger over the incumbent.
And what is the Obama reality? 23 million people who can’t find work or have dropped out of the labor force, 43 straight months of unemployment above 8% until last month when it ostensibly fell to 7.8%, a meteoric rise in national debt (4 years of trillion dollar deficits) and, worst of all, an economy that is growing slower over the past 2 years. This is all a far cry from the “hope and change” that Mr. Obama promised in 2008.
Yet what has likely caused the most suppressed apoplexy amongst voters, especially those who voted for the President 4 years ago, is his utter nonchalance, if not detachment, to the reality he has created.
Specifically, in an economy where there are all too many people out of work, Mr. Obama and his surrogates have shown little interest in them and chosen to focus on phantom Republican wars on you name it, from women to the middle class to the planet Photon. Now Mr. Obama is running around claiming to be a defender of Big Bird from the PBS show Sesame Street. News flash, Mr. President: it’s tough for unemployed people to feel more sorry for Big Bird than themselves.
All of which shows a President who seems detached and and uninterested in listening to the vox populi: he and his fellow Democrats will tell us what we should be worried about.
The last person to occupy the White House who seemed as tone deaf to the concerns of the electorate as Mr. Obama was the one-term President George H.W. “Un-Dukakis” Bush.
It is said that when President Bush checked his watch in a debate in 1992, it confirmed with many voters that he was uninterested and no longer worthy of being President. Mr. Obama’s defense of Big Bird appears to be his watch-checking moment.
-I.M. Windee
