Got home late and only saw half of the debate, so my comments pertain to only the second half of the festivities. Once again, in no particular order:
1). Ron Paul got stiffed on the face time again. He got completely passed over on two questions (Santorum was also passed over on one of the questions).
2). Lame debate format. The time allotted for responses allows for little more than sound bites. Very little of substance gets discussed, and virtually everything said by the candidates is old news. Letting the audience present the questions results in many narrowly-focused questions that are tantamount to asking for political favors. And please, asking the candidates why their wives would make the best first lady?
3). No matter how one feels about the Israel/Palestine situation, you have to feel sorry for the poor Palestinian-American guy in the audience. His question, which only Romney and Gingrich had a chance to answer, basically turned into a contest to see who could be the biggest cheerleader for Israel. Arab-Americans everywhere would have to be pretty oblivious to not notice that they were essentially told, "Screw you!" Way to reach out, GOP!
4). Santorum on the question of Cuba: sounds like if Santorum had the opportunity to nuke the Castro regime, he would. Which would finally put the Cuban people out of their misery. Forty years of poverty brought on by the American embargo, and how did that policy affect the Castro brothers? Not at all, except to drive them further into the arms of the Soviets, followed by any two-bit chump dictator that followed. Embargo is an act of war aimed at civilians. Embargoes invariably end up strengthening the regimes they are intended to weaken.
5). Brilliant answer by Dr. Paul on how faith would affect his presidency. He said it wouldn't, except for how his faith defines his character, and that his presidency would be bound by his oath of office and his promise to the American people. And since a man's character is defined not so much by what he says as by what he does, Dr. Paul clearly has the most Christ-like character of any of the remaining candidates.
6). One of CNN's people mentioned that Romney has a new debate coach. Did anyone ever doubt that Romney had a debate coach? Does anyone believe Dr. Paul has a debate coach?
3 comments:
As usual, for the first part of the debate, the moderator got Newt and Mitt to take up a great deal of time snipping at each other. I forget what about, but it was more same-ol', same-ol'....
BTW. Newt. Mitt. It just wouldn't be respectable having such a name for a president. (Not that even having a president is respectable....)
The Palestinian guy. WOW. How must this guy feel with these two automatons giving him the finger in front of the whole world. This fixation with and fealty to Israel has and will cause us all a lot of suffering.
Speaking of suffering, this Santorum fella seems to be growing more unstable, strident, and, I'm betting, unappealing even to the lemming Republican masses. Give it up, Dude.
I felt so bad for the Pal-Am guy. What a big FU for a totally reasonable question.
Obama 2012!
We must carefully think about our relationship to Israel. I'm not saying throw them under the bus, but we must care about the Palestinians as well. There's a whole perspective that most people never see.
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