Large v Small

Who is the grown up here?  Romney not Obama

Third and Final, thankfully, Presidential Debate
October 22, 2012
Boca Raton, Florida

Thank God it's over.  This Presidential race is starting to smell badly. Enough already.

As Big Daddy said in the Tennessee Williams's classic play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, "There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity." (And just for the record, mendacity means untruthfulness, falsehoods, tendency to lie.) President Obama has taken mendacity's odors to the level of THE Chicago waste dump in Cicero.

By repeatedly spouting many falsehoods as a campaign strategy against his rival Governor MITT Romney, Obama is continuing to smell badly.  Don't you think?  Kinda like running shorts that haven't been washed after three marathons. That makes Obama not only smelly but small, petty and unfocused. 

Obama deflects the viewers attention away from his own pathetic record while guttering and lying about MITT's record.  But that's how they do it in Cook County.  When your record is lousy, one deflects, obfuscates and lies about the other guy to win. Obama thinks that will work. It will not.  The majority of the electorate in America is not that stupid Mr. President.

A growing number of Americans see Obama as the choleric and somewhat melancholy character of an Elizabethan play. A cross character type of a brooding Hamlet and the angry Laertes in Shakespeare's, Hamlet, who incidentally both fell on each others swords over pride, anger and envy.  Tonight Obama appeared churlish, edgy, condescending, arrogant, impertinent and amateurish.  Seemingly, he cannot conceal his utter contempt for the challenger. Presidential. NO. Small. BIG YES!!

On the other hand, MITT continued to keep his cool against this blatant fraud, Obama.  Frankly, I don't know how MITT remains so collected and calm in the presence of a serial fraud and liar. MITT is cheerful, positive, strong, factual, confident and respectful amidst all the mendacity.  Presidential. YES.  Big. BIG YES!!!!

The highlight of the debate was the interchange between the two candidates about Obama's pandering to the Arab countries on his "Apology Tour."  On his tour, Obama bowed and asked for forgiveness from Israel's enemies for the USA's generational policy missteps against the Arab world. Shockingly, on the very same tour through the Middle East, Obama avoided a visit to Israel, our strongest ally in the region, which MITT stated rather forcefully. Obama feebly talked about some visit in the Middle East when he was campaigning in 2008. MITT's rejoinder to Obama's inane rambling remarks were, "we do not dictate to other nations, we free other nations from dictators."  Obama was stunned. ('Where is my sword?' He muttered to himself.)

As the debate concluded, I noticed an intense mien on MITT's face as Obama was concluding his remarks.  What was he thinking? Was he thinking of Big Daddy's words to his profligate son, Brick, as he stared at the President? "What's the smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?"

No, MITT's too decent a man to tell a person he stinks.