Deer Leader's First Debate
Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 11:17AM The old saying, "Looks like a deer in headlights", certainly tells it all in last night's first Presidential Debate.
New York Mets catcher, Yogi Berra was labeled "Mr. Malaprop," but I don't think that's accurate. He doesn't use the wrong words, he just puts words together in ways nobody else would ever do. Yogi said, "Ninety percent of this game is half mental." and "We made too many wrong mistakes!" So, by last night's poor showing, the President showed he was not mentally engaged and grossly erred. Can he muster up his glitz and glamour aurora to razzle dazzle the electorate again? As Yogi said, "It ain't over 'till it's over."
A Debate night Tweet:
Bill Maheri can't believe i'm saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter
So, according to comedian Bill Maher, in putting forth his opinion that many liberals and uncommitted voters finally realized, the jig is up, no pun or racism implied here but the King has no clothes. He had laid bare his failures and unfilled promises to lead or in a bipartisan role to bring together both sides to agree on any budget in four years.
Yogi said, "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" Since Obama cannot blame Bush anymore and certainly not himself, he points to the minority Congressional Republicans and whined in the debate that he could not get everyone to agree with him. That left it open for Romney to mention that he had an 85% majority of Democrat seats in the Massachusetts legislature and in spite still worked to pass state budgets and legislation for four years as a Republican Governor.
It looks like the electorate has finally awakened from its nap and is now sleepwalking towards election day on November 6. Hopefully, voters will be fully awake before election day to realize how four more Obama years will affect them. As Yogi Berra said, "There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em." - I guess that's some of the 47% that Romney was talking about!...
Mitt Romney's comment about 47 percent of Americans living on government handouts may not have been tactful, but he certainly has a point.
Americans are more dependent on the government than ever.
Romney's "47 percent" refers approximately to the population who pay no federal income tax. This does include paid-in social security retirees, military, their dependents, etc. Add to this the share of the country who receive government handouts in one form or another like Medicaid, welfare, housing allowance, food stamp recipients and that number would be higher still.
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