Debate Wrap-Up

What’s
Wrong Today:

The Wrongologist will
leave it to the network and cable bloviators to tell you who won or lost the Presidential
debate at Hofstra University last night.  

But here are a few
things for you to think about:

  • Mr.
    Romney mentioned in passing, as he did in the first debate, that his tax plan
    will eliminate any capital gains taxes.
    This is a keystone of his tax and economic plan.  Mr. Obama missed a chance to point out that
    this change will mean that Mr. Romney will pay
    less tax than he does today    .
  • On
    Benghazi, Mr. Obama could have made it clear that the force attacking the Special Mission numbered between 40 and 100.
    The attacking force had RPG’s and mortars. The
    force defending the Mission was between 8 and 25 and had light weapons    .
    Had the State Department agreed to extend the tour of security personnel that
    was asked for by security staff in Tripoli, it
    would have added 3 more security staff in Benghazi    . Had that occurred, our forces would still have been
    outnumbered by more than 2:1    , so it is unlikely that the outcome would
    have been different.
  • Mr. Romney’s stagecraft had one
    clever part    . He
    often walked into Mr. Obama’s line of sight with Candy Crowley, the moderator. This diminished Mr. Obama to the
    television audience and made it difficult for Mr. Obama to keep eye contact with
    the moderator    . Smart. Mr.
    Romney had one poor element of stagecraft    , however, trying early and often to confront Mr.
    Obama, to cause Obama to get
    emotional and make a non-presidential action or statement    . That effort
    failed. Mr. Obama has a lifetime of necessarily not reacting to ploys designed
    to cast him as the angry black man.
  • Mr. Romney said during the debate
    that 580,000 women have lost jobs under Obama. According to Fact Check. org the true figure is closer to
    93,000. You would think that Mr. Obama
    knew that.
  • If you want the details on Mr.
    Romney’s tax plan, you can find it here.
  • Finally,
    if you were scoring at home, shame on you. You should have been watching the
    debate. 

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