It's time for round between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. Tonight's debate will begin at 9 p.m. in the East and will be a town hall style meeting at Hofstra University. Candy Crowley will serve as the moderator. There will be segments on both foreign and domestic policy.
By this point we all know what happened in the first debate. Obama messed up big time and Romney has gotten a big boost in the polls over the past two weeks (even the ones with a huge liberal tilt). Here are some thing to look at tonight, especially seeing that foreign policy will now be on the table:
1. Obama will need to be more aggressive.
This is something that he has vowed to do, but no one is quite sure what exactly this will entail. He may take a "Joe Biden Route" tonight, which would include talking louder, being more disruptive, sneering even more than he did in the first debate and, of course, outright lying. Hey, it seemed to work for Joe!
2. The plays on Libya will be different based on last night's news.
It came out yesterday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is taking "full responsibility" for what happened in Benghazi on September 11. From where I'm sitting, it looks like Clinton took the fall for the Obama Administration in an attempt to deflect pressure from the president on this issue. Should the opportunity for Romney to attack Obama on Libya come up, look for Obama to try and pass the blame onto the State Department. That's not how it should work at all, seeing as Obama oversees the State Department as part of his job and is still very much accountable for what happened, but the media has found its scapegoat now and look for the media to do all it can to help Obama on this issue.
3. Obama will use the bogus jobs report to tout his "success".
The jobs report released on October 5 is supposed to make it look like Obama is succeeding at getting people back to work. The fact of the matter is that the numbers just don't add up! Anyone should be able to see that. Of course just this morning, my economics professor told a class of about 400 students that anyone who thinks the BLS cooked the books for Obama is crazy. She's the crazy one for being so compliant and willing to accept what she is told, but I digress. Romney knows what's really going on, most of America knows what's really going on, but "I've gotten unemployment back under 8 percent as president" will probably be a line out of Obama's mouth tonight anyway.
4. Crowley will not be a fair moderator and should not be working this debate tonight.
Candy Crowley has numerous problems that should have prevented her from being the debate moderator this evening. First off, she has called the Romney ticket a "death wish". That by itself should be enough to disqualify her! Clearly she is biased against Romney and will more than likely moderate as such.If she is allowed to "moderate" at all that is! The contract signed by the campaigns stipulates that Crowley is to simply serve as what one might call a "mic holder", taking the questions from the audience without restating them, commented on them, or adding to them in any way. That is what the Romney and Obama campaigns have signed off on. However, Crowley went on CNN earlier today and said that is not what she will be doing at all. She promised to interject herself into the debate instead of just passing the mic off to people in the crowd. She's biased, she can't follow the rules of the debate, great choice! NOT.
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