President Obama has had an answer for everything but, a solution for nothing ever since he’s been on the public stage. Obama may (I emphasize ‘may’) be a smoother politician than Romney but, it is clear he is no where near the practiced and trained problem solver that Romney is.
Romney looked to me like a man who knew how to be a CEO and a decision maker. He also looked like a man who not only knew how to defend his position but, also how to challenge the positions of other (Obama in this case) without being disrespectful. Finally, Romney looked like a man comfortable in his own shoes.
Obama, on the other hand, looked out of his league from the get-go. His platitudes fell flat and seemed empty. He had no idea how to spar ‘in the arean of ideas’ with Romney. Isn’t ‘political sparing’ the mothers milk of politicians? If so, where were his skills that were supposedly built up over a life time of politics?
It’s one thing not to believe in the conservative ideology but, it’s complete incompetence not to understand its strengths and weaknesses in terms of the strengths and weaknesses of the liberal ideology. No wonder Obama can’t work with the GOP House!! He doesn’t understand their ideology. Worse yet, he doesn’t understand liberal ideology either. I would have done a better job defending his positions and I completely disagree with them
In short, Obama looked like a little-leaguer trying to play short-stop for the Yankees while Romney looked like....the next President of the United States.
Obama is only going to diminish further when he again shares the stage with Romney. He’s lucky there is only two debates left. He’s also lucky the media is in his corner. Still, if Obama doesn’t have a video of Romney leaving a shady hotel room with a woman who is not his wife, it’s unclear to me how he fakes his way into another term.
In David Gelernter's book, America-Lite, he explains that the current breed of college-educated liberals are not like the old lions of liberalism. They don't have a set of (erroneous) values that they can discuss and defend. They have merely absorbed the liberal cliches and shibboleths in school through osmosis and regurgitate them. He calls them, Obama included, "Airheads".
