I believe that however the spin docs will try to save this debate, that Obama showed a singular lack of leadership, and Romney SHOULD have called him on it. If my embassy is attacked and R”L people are murdered in the attack, THAT is not an act of terror. It is an act of WAR. The President took his sweet time in reacting appropriately (still hasn’t, btw)and in calling a spade a spade. He did NOT say this was an act of terror when he was in the Rose Garden. He said the US will not tolerate a terrorist act (paraphrasing a bit). Meanwhile, that is PRECISELY what he is doing, through his astonishing failure to take immediate action, but going out and campaigning at fund-raisers in the aftermath of this tragedy.
There is a fine difference between saying an act of terror has just been committed against our nation, and saying that we will not tolerate acts of terror. One, informs the people of something crucial to the public knowledge, something which the president and his representatives did not do. The other, merely spouts more useless rhetoric. And that is exactly what Obama did in the Rose Garden, as well as in the debate last night. He merely mouths old and tired sound bytes. And that is as effective as his “bite” will ever be.
I would also like to address the incredible chutzpah and bias-showing of the moderator. It was clear she favors Obama (I could not care less about that, it is her right to prefer whichever candidate she wishes), but she repeatedly interrupted Romney, never gave him the extra time she kept promising to give him to complete certain thoughts (and we have subsequently learned that Obama was in fact given 4 minutes more than Romney to speak, which means Romney was entitled to 2 minutes of rebuttal that he was not given), and she interjected on the Benghazi issue with what is turning out to be misleading and misdirected information.
Did anyone find it appalling that as with Joe Biden, the President was alternating between smugly grinning and looking daggers? I find it hard to believe that ANY rov would suggest voting for such a sonei Yisrael. I can’t wait to hear his foreign policy debate. Maybe he will have an asnwer for how he was able to find time to appear on The View and Letterman, when he had no time to meet with a world leader such as Netanyahu. I wonder what he would have done had Achmedinejad requested the pleasure of his company.