I generally avoid expressing political opinion on Facebook and have rejected posting many a cute half-truth political poster. For I am very aware that many of my Facebook friends do not share my political leanings. But this election is very important to all of us and to the future well being and integrity of our country. So I am going to make an exception. Here I go.....
A key moment in Tuesday's Presidential debate was when Governor Romney went in for the kill so sure he had nailed the president. He raised his eyebrows in confident victory. And then awkwardly and literally stumbled in body and speech at his own mistaken judgment. Much of the audience knew he was wrong before he did. How embarrassing. Yet he never admitted, even in gesture, that his extremely disrespectful, but to him once delicious, accusation was dead wrong.
I struggle to see how anyone can see that kind of misplaced venom, made clear in both body and word, and still feel un-bothered about the inner character it comes from. Sometimes we don't really 'watch a debate' to learn something. Yet many Obama supporters, and I'm sure Obama as well, did actually 'watch and weep' as they confessed defeat in the first debate. But I'm not yet hearing if many really watched and saw what Mitt Romney did in those key moments of unscripted real life.
It is these unplanned moments that historically Americans have learned something important from debates about the character and maturity of the debaters. The rest is all preplanned, canned talking points. In debates we all for sure tend to see what we want to see. But shouldn't we strongly attempt to be objective when so much is being laid out in the open about a serious character flaw in the president-seeking debater?
I struggle to see how anyone can see that kind of misplaced venom, made clear in both body and word, and still feel un-bothered about the inner character it comes from. Sometimes we don't really 'watch a debate' to learn something. Yet many Obama supporters, and I'm sure Obama as well, did actually 'watch and weep' as they confessed defeat in the first debate. But I'm not yet hearing if many really watched and saw what Mitt Romney did in those key moments of unscripted real life.
It is these unplanned moments that historically Americans have learned something important from debates about the character and maturity of the debaters. The rest is all preplanned, canned talking points. In debates we all for sure tend to see what we want to see. But shouldn't we strongly attempt to be objective when so much is being laid out in the open about a serious character flaw in the president-seeking debater?
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