Presidential Debate 2.0

     The second debate between the President of the United States and former Governor Romney was held in Hempstead, New York.  The meeting of the two was set up to resemble a town hall meeting with the questions being asked by undecided voters.  The Chief Political Correspondent of CNN, Candy Crowley, was the moderator of this debate.  She did an exceptional job keeping the two to around their 2 minute response times and on topic for the most part.

     Unlike the first debate, President Obama was awake and ready for the debate.  I almost want to use the word fight due to the setting of the stage, the opponents, and how they, at one point, circled each other ready to duke it out.  You could just tell by looking at the two that they could really care less for one another.  This time around after the debate they did not greet each others families.  They went to separate sides of the stage and greeted potential voters and supporters.  Not surprisingly though after this much heated debate between the two.

     During the 90 minutes both the President and former Governor gave many contributions to the nights' twitter/internet memes.  The President also put forth many quips focused at former Governor Romney.  There wasn't a dull moment for either candidate in terms of the quick wit and fact fullness of Obama, or the stumbling Romney and his weird choices of words. 
   Here are some highlights during the debate that  came from Romney:
                -"You'll get your chance in a moment" 
                -"Whole Binders full of women"
                -"I want to keep our Pell Grant program growing"
                - his insistence that the President took 14 days to announce attacks in Libya were in fact terrorists.
                - his seemingly accusations against single parent households for the gun violence.
      Besides the normal interruptions of former Governor Romney and rudeness that he portrays, Mitt seemed to stumble around issues and didn't seem to know the facts behind his attacks.  Case in point is when he argued continuously about when Obama said that the attacks in Libya were terrorists.  Obama said he did the next day when they found out but Mitt kept arguing and bringing up that it took 14 days,  Finally Candy interrupted and shut Mitt Romney down and said that in fact the President did call those attacks terrorist.  I don't think this man knows any facts behind his attacks nor the issues he was questioned about.  His entire story about wanting more women in his offices is a joke.  About as big a joke as his comment of having "whole binders full of women", which became a popular meme instantly.  Romney also did not seem to understand peoples' names (Lorraine) or questions (The AK-47).  Speaking of the AK-47 question Romney brought up parents to, basically, be blamed for the gun violence.  He took the opportunity to say, "Gosh, to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone, that's a great idea.".  This took twitter by storm as well especially because most took it as to him attacking single mothers.  Needless to say Romney needs to get his facts straight and think about the words and the ways they come out of his mouth.
     Obama was on point all night and here are some highlights from him:
               -"Romney has a 1 point plan"
               -"I'm used to being interrupted" (To Candy about the former Gov.)
               -"I don't look at my pension that often , it is not as big as yours"
               - Mentions the 47% comment from Romney
               -"Governor, you're the last person who is going to get tough on China"
     There are so many moments that the President made me proud.  I loved all the quips and jabs he took at Romney.  I also thought about how he takes the blame on the attacks in Libya shows tremendous leadership.  He stated, "The suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the Secretary of State, our U.N. Ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve lost four of our own, governor, is offensive.  That’s not what we do. That’s not what I do as president, that’s not what I do as Commander in Chief." 
     President Obama won this debate for sure.  What a mass improvement from the first debate that's for sure.  So proud of that man and hope he will do as good or better in the third debate on Monday.  Let's see if Romney can get his facts together and works on his choice of words if he wants to win the next one. Until Monday.......