POST-DEBATE

The mainstream media has gone from frothing over Debate 1 to doing the happy dance after Debate 2.  They now say that Barack is back and he won the debate.

But in a bizarre twist, a Gallop poll (a large sampling of 2,700 people polled before the debate) reports numbers of Obama 45/Romney 52.

Americans seem to say "I trusted you but now your words mean nothing to me because your actions speak louder."  Here are a few groups who might feel betrayed:

THOSE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ECONOMY

 We have a 7/11 president.  For every $7 we have, we spend $11.  People intrinsically know this pattern will destroy us.  And what is the president's proposal for his next term?  More of the same.  He just needs more time.

If the president were here, he would smoothly tell you he cut the deficit.  And he did cut the tiniest sliver, but his other hand was throwing sacks of dollars off the back of the truck.  That's his pattern.  Say a little of one side and then the other.  That way when caught...there's cover to run under.  There is no way to deny that this president loaded the deficit after promising to cut the deficit in half.

Here's another astounding economic fact to click on:  welfare spending in the last four years jumped 32%.

The president would have us believe that he is concerned about the economy.  We're not buying it.

THOSE CONCERNED ABOUT NATURAL RESOURCES 

All of a sudden, oil and coal and natural gas are nasty and we need to get rid of those bad boys and embrace green.  So the administration picked these 36 green companies that you and I funded (click to see how much you spent).   You will note an asterisk out beside 18 of them; that means those companies have already filed for bankruptcy.  

The 2009 stimulus set aside $80 BILLION to subsidize politically preferred energy projects (that means guys who bundled the president's money).  Since that time 1,900 investigations (not all limited to green companies) have been opened to look into stimulus waste, fraud, and abuse.  Nearly 600 already have convictions.  This is rotten cronyism.

Our president said in the debate that he is FOR all energy sources.  But his oil and coal and fracking hostility is speaking louder than his words.

THOSE CONCERNED ABOUT HISPANICS

Consider the differences between a program during the Bush administration called "Wide Receiver" and the Obama program called "Fast and Furious".

Wide Receiver was an effort to join forces with Mexican law enforcement in order to get a handle on gun smuggling and drug cartels.  It began in 2005 and involved 400 guns which had a GPS within them to track/keep law enforcement aware of their whereabouts.  The plan was to see where the guns ended so they could make their case against the cartels.  The Bush administration notified the Mexican governments when the arms and smugglers crossed the border.  They made 1,400 arrests.  When ATF realized the bad guys were disabling the tracking devices, RFID tracking devices were installed to destroy guns when they attempted to disarm them.  The program was shut down in 2007 when the smugglers got wise.

THE PURPOSE OF 'WIDE RECEIVER' WAS TO WORK WITH MEXICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN ORDER TO TRACK AND BUILD A CASE AGAINST VIOLENT DRUG SMUGGLERS.

What about Fast and Furious?  It began in October of 2009 (AFTER Wide Receiver had been shut down in 2007) and involved 2,000 guns with NO tracking devices and no effort to track them.  The guns were sold and walked across the border.  The Mexican government was not notified the program existed.  Federal agents werre not allowed to interdict the guns and they even ran interference for the smugglers with local law enforcement on multiple occasions to make sure those guns made it across the border.  No effort was ever made to arrest the "purchasers" or the smugglers or anyone.  NONE were arrested.  It was closed down only after the deaths of at least 200 Mexican citizens and two federal agents, Border Agent Brian Terry and ICE Agent, Jaime Zapata.

THE PURPOSE OF FAST AND FURIOUS IS UNKNOWN.

This picture is of the brave ATF whistleblowers who testified to Congress about Fast and Furious.

It is hard to get to the bottom of this case because the president has invoked executive privilege and our Attorney General denies knowing about it.  We have "outrage deficit" because there are so many issues flying in our face daily.  But we know that Fast and Furious bore no resemblance to Wide Receiver.

The bottom line is...if Fast and Furious was our law enforcement program, it did not play out in OUR country, but in Mexico where over 200 innocent citizens died.

THOSE CONCERNED ABOUT BENGHAZI/TERRORISM

The trouble with inventing stories is that everyone is telling their story just a little bit differently.  

The VP says neither he nor the president knew anything.  If so, is it too much to ask that they SHOULD know something?  The embassy was bombed both in April and June and would have been ripe for another hit on 9/11.  It surely was not the time to send security home.  The President refused to answer the question "why" or "who sent them home?".  Then he acted insulted that someone would question his voracity.

The Ambassador's diary tells one story...the State Department tells a story...and Intelligence tells their side.   Everyone's headed for the tall grass. Then Hillary mans up and takes responsibility.  Trouble is, no one really believes she was the final arbiter for something this big.  And we don't believe that the Rose Garden statement was true, either, but instead was the president's CAREFUL parsing of words to stretch a tent over himself.   

We know he got on that plane to a Las Vegas campaign event when he should have been minding the country's business after a terror attack killed four Americans.  We know that the State Department had a live line in real time (and the battle lasted five hours).  They knew there was no crowd in front of that embassy...until the killers arrived.  So why did we have to put up with a phony video outrage story for two weeks?  We're just not buying what he's selling.

We are afraid that same ideology which tries to elevate Muslims' esteem was responsible for a reluctance to even call terrorism TERRORISM (but instead "Overseas Contingency Operation").  And the same ideology called the Ft. Hood shooter..."workplace violence".  We are shocked to learn of their ineptitude in the past when intelligence inadvertantly "outed" a source by leaking the information that the underwear bomber was a double agent.  And we wonder if re-election is prioritized above our security by bragging about Osama bin Laden at the convention.  What a tangled mess.  The American people want the truth.

Americans have more questions than answers about this president.  And that is what the polls reflect.