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Last night we heard an excellent debate on issues and visions for America, between incumbent President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney.

The form and format of last night's debate was better, I thought, because they had a desk at which to sit.
(That's what we need in this country -- More Desks!)
And the moderator did a really good job.  I'm sure the moderators at the first two debates were trying their best, but that's not an easy role and -- well -- last night went better, I thought -- this moderator was more confident and on top of things.

(If it was me, I would probably get my "condition," or "Disorder" that I generally get if I encounter someone who is well-known -- I'd tell them who they were, like when I saw Paul Paulson....
"You're Pat Paulson!  You're Pat Paulson!"

"You're Barack Obama!"
"You're Mitt Romney!"
"You really are!!...However, now cannot remember own name--Hmmh....")

----------------------------------- I liked it when Gov. Romney said if elected he would "label" China as a "trade manipulator."  Label them.  Declare them.  And he said something like, Free-market competition is fine, but that doesn't mean they can roll all over us....

(Walk all over us.
Roll all over us.
Label them -- roll out the labels....)

Romney was emphatic about redressing the trade imbalance between the U.S. & China:  he said they have to stop
-- holding down the value of their currency,
-- stealing our intellectual property, and
-- counterfeiting products --(I think that was what he said....)

Both Pres. Obama and former Mass. Governor Romney said we need to remain a strong ally to Israel;
Romney said the president was right to increase the use of drones;
when Romney's questioning of the Administration's "moving heaven and earth to get one guy" (Bin Laden) was brought up, the president acknowledged that question as one of balancing priorities, and revealed that Vice President Joe Biden had expressed a similar position...

These are not people who are in wildly extreme disagreement with each other. 
Extremists might not like that.
I do like that.
I scribbled it down when Gov. Romney said, "First I want to underscore the same point the president made...."

Voices that say Pres. Obama is a
"far-left" guy
and
Mitt Romney is a "right-wing extremist"
are living in a dream world.
(Or saying it because they are Paid to say it on tv...)
You don't get elected in Massachusetts by being a right-wing anything.  It's probably the most Liberal-Democrat State in the country (the only state to go for George McGovern for pres. in 1972).
He got elected there; he's a centrist, like Obama; have a nice day.

Both of these people, who could be
a) Making More Money
and
b) Living A More Relaxed Life
in the private sector
instead
WANT
a very hard and difficult job laden with crushing responsibility, wherein, as an added extra bonus -- idiots call you terrible names and say mean stupid things about you 24-7, everywhere.

Aren't we blessed?
(Not -- blessed -- by the idiots, but I mean by the fact that any upstanding hard-working sane human even wants to offer himself to us as a public servant in that posistion....)

The flip-side of the Power is the Service.  And the service is really all there is; power is fluid.

I think whichever candidate is elected, he should hire the other one to work in his administration.  (That'd fix the scathing pundits!)...And more importantly, consolidate talent and good-will on one team.

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