Presidential debate # 2

The second presidential debate is in the books and my feeling is progressives/liberals can easily say that THIS is the Obama we wanted to see!

President Obama was engaged, brought the facts, and most importantly countered the lies of Mitt Romney. This sowing by the president was a nice turnaround from the first debate where Romney's many lies went unchallenged.

This time Obama countered and countered strong, with the top moment being the back and forth over the Rose Garden press conference and what term Obama supposedly used. Romney insisted that Obama never said terrorism and it took a week or more to use the word. Romney doubled down and stared at Obama quizzically and asked again "for the record" what did you say? The president calmly looked Romney in the eye and said "look at the transcript". This was the a spot where Romney thought he had Obama nailed, and it backfired miserable as even debate moderator Candy Crowley (CNN) said Romney was wrong!!
Romney tried to bully the moderator a bit at the beginning, and for a short time I thought "here he (Romney) goes again in taking over the debate", but Crowley quickly took back here position of moderator and pretty much kept both debaters in line for the rest of the debate. You could sense the angst from Romney as he really wanted to takeover the debate and make it similar to the first debate, but Crowley held her ground.

Over all a good showing by the president, no major damage and he made ground by countering the Romney lies!

Another ares which went big on Twitter was the Romney reference to "Binders full of women" when addressing the women in the workplace and fair pay act (Lilly Ledbetter Act). That term trended on twitter, which means it was so active it was all over in peoples tweets!

The president also had a good moment on the Lilly Ledbetter Act by saying Romney would not support it and referencing that the Romney campaign had no idea what it was. Journalist Sam Stein is on tape calling the Romney campaign and asking if they support the Lilly Ledbetter Act, and there was a moment of stunned silence and then a quick "We'll get back to you on that" response.......an obvious admission that the Romney campaign had no idea about the new law.

So two debates down, one to go next Monday. The next debate will focus on foreign policy, so look for Romney to once again hammer the Libya Embassy issue and middle east strife.

I think any progressive/liberal/democratic angst over the president's debate performance was greatly eased by last nights showing! Obama now needs to take the third debate and then we need to get out and VOTE !!!!

OBAMA-BIDEN 2012!!