Reflection on 2012 Presidential Debate: Mitt Romney Won!….The First Debate

Look at that Face

President Obama spent the most of the debate giving an uncomfortable angry look evident in his eyes as Mitt touched on many of the problems associated with the current administration. He looked uncomfortable and did a lot of babbling and attempts at disinformation about Romney’s tax plan. It was almost as if the president purposely tried to bully Romney into accepting his inaccurate explanation of the Romney tax plan. President Obama did not represent himself well and came into the debate at a disadvantage because everything that is wrong with the nation since 2008 happened on his watch.

When Mitt Romney checked the president multiple times about the 98 billion or so dollars he spent on energy companies of which half went bankrupted I thought the president would shed tears. The fact that he wasted so much money to fund failing and failed ventures gave him a black eye when he suggested that we can tell a lot about people by the way they budget.

President Obama wanted to suggest that Mitt Romney wants to gut the education funding and other support programs because he could not understand how he could cut the deficit without raising taxes on the middle class. Romney turned the insinuation around on the president and explained that raising taxes on anyone was bad. He wanted to grow the amount of jobs so that more people can pay taxes creating revenue that way. He mentioned it several times. President Obama never seemed to grasp or accept that idea that Romney’s plan was a good solution, which is why we should give Romney a chance to execute his plan this November

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