The Presidential debate of October 3 between President Obama and Mitt Romney is over and the post comments have begun by the news media, the public and other pundits. Those who take the view that being aggresive is what decides the debate believe Romney won the debate. Those who take the view that susbstance and facts is what decides debates believe the President won the debate. There are also post debate comments that President Obama should have hit Romney on his comments about the 47% and false comments on other issues made by Romney.
There is no question Romney lied about Obama's health care plan when he said it cuts $760 billion in medicare benefits. There is no question that Romney lied when he said he presented no plans of a $5 trillion tax cut that will benefit the wealthy. Both of those lies have been exposed during the last several months of the campaign.
Obama's health care plan cuts $760 billion not in medicare benefits but in payments to doctors and providers who have been over charging medicare which he mentioned in the debate. Romney's planned $5 trillion tax cuts was given to the news media by Romney many months ago with no details of how the cuts would be paid for. Andrea Mitchell with NBC put that up on the T.V. screen after the debate and confirmed that Romney indeed promoted that plan.
Did it occur to anyone that maybe President Obama did not want to expose the viewers to a tit for tac debate that would serve no purpose other than to confuse the public. The 47% comment, the $760 billion comment and the $5 trillion comment came out of Romney's own mouth and has been discussed during the campaign many times over. Romney convicted himself at the debate with his own lies. He must have mentioned the $760 billion and the $5 trillion 10 times. Just think of how the debate would have gone if Obama had to reject Romney's lies 10 times with tit for tac.
Jim Lehrer who moderated the debate let the viewers down with his selection of questions and with letting Romney push him around the rules he set up for the debate. I believe after the American people have time to absorb and separate the substance and facts of the debate from the sad story of falsehoods, they will give President Obama " A Rocky Mountain High".
