You are delusional. Obama exudes intelligence, command and most of all, sincerity. Romney had nothing but bullying strategy taking advantage of the difficult times not recognizing the many accomplishments of Obama's administration in spite of the deep recession and war on terrorism he inherited from the previous administration. Romney is your typical lying, cheating, insincere business man who hides under a fake smile. What really are his credentials (besides the money and business he inherited) ?

LOL

Inserting herself as the factchecker on the Lybia matter was a huge blunder on her part. The sad part is that her facts were wrong to boot.

I understood the rules of the debate included "no questions from the moderator." Ms Crowley stated openly before the event that she intended to ask follow-up questions, clearly a violation of the rules. Were the rules changed at the last minute, enabling her to ask the follow-up questions?

Remind me again why a journalist has to be the moderator of these events?

What poll have you seen? A poll of republicans?

That's yesterday's Gallup poll results

http://www.thenation.com/blog/170623/romneys-seven-biggest-debate-lies#

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/10-most-shameless-romney-debate-lies-debunked

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/10/17/1030581/at-last-nights-debate-romney-told-31-myths-in-41-minutes/

Sorry, I know you only asked for ONE lie.

What Romney lied about? How about EVERYTHING! The repeal of Obamacare, the terrorists statement by Obama, the 47%, taking away funding for PBS, planned parenthood, Headstart programs, etc. etc. and going back and forth depending on the situation he is in at the moment.

NE12Ukid - Oh - that's so hard to do, right! Just log on to your liberal websites and copy links from other liberals pointing out "discrepancies" and "misquotes". I could do the very same thing on Obama! Give me a break. Every candidate has off the cuff remarks that may not be 100% accurate. That's a big difference than LYING! Get over yourself. I could go on all day about Obama's lies..... and I don't need to copy and paste links from a website. Just watch the man speak.....nothing but B.S. comes out of his mouth!

KMB... What are you talking about??? Nothing you said made any sense, and NONE of what you said were lies? They are his policies. What is a "lie" about repealing Obama care? What is a "lie" about taking away funding for PBS? What is a "lie" about saying Obama never called the Bengahzi attack terrorism? You don't have to agree with Romney or his policies, but don't resort to calling everything that you disagree with a "lie". That's very kindergarten. (Then of course - you are a liberal .) And any common sense person who has ever developed a marketing plan, or ran a campaign knows not to "worry" or "focus" on a target audience that will not change their mind. Everyone knows he was talking about campaign strategy, and not worrying about the 47% of people who won't vote for him anyway. He also doesn't have to "worry" about the 53% who WILL VOTE FOR HIM. People are morons!

Now everyone knows that Romney said, "The first thing I will do is repeal Obamacare" and now he says he will keep much of it, the terrorism remark is stupid and grasping at straws by Romney, he already spoke of cutting programs that middle class needs and now he is again backtracking, and as far as the 47% and your so called marketing plan. It is moronic to disregard ANY potential votes, that is good marketing. Who ever says, "Oh well we don't need them anyway" That's the dumbest statement I've ever heard, the WHOLE point of these debates is to change people's minds

KMB - you need to pay better attention. Romney WILL NOT keep much of Obama Care. He will repeal the whole thing on day 1 in office. That has been his platform the entire time. On what planet did you watch the debate last night? As far as the 47% - when you have $ to spend against different audiences - you spend it against the ones that can be influenced to change their minds. You don't waste your time and money banging your head against the wall trying to convince a specific target audience to change their mind when they are too dumb and stubborn to do so. This is why Romney (and Obama) are spending their ad $ on the "swing states". Romney isn't spending a dime nor any of his time in the state of California. Because they are a lost cause. If you take his 47% comment in the right context - you will understand that.

I bet you wish Bush was still president

A group of Libyans attack our embassy and you're sitting around waiting for the president to call it terrorism? Just call me next time one of our embassys is attacked in the Middle East and I'll let you know.

This is one of the goofiest arguments to come out of this debate. A bunch of people sitting home waiting to be told a terrorist attack is a terrorist attack. The Romney bunch is really grasping at straws.

JS, I agree completely!

JS... We ALL KNEW it was a terrorist attack. Nobody is waiting for the President to call it Terrorism. The point is HONESTY WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. He tried to cover this up for 2 weeks so it didn't look bad on his watch. So that his Foriegn policy wouldn't look innefective. What president trying to get re-elected wants to have a terrorist attack on his watch 3 weeks before an election? His tap-dancing around the subject, and his evading calling it what it was (and what everyone else knew it was) shows his lack of leadership, character, and honesty. He will do ANYTHING to get re-elected - even if it means misleading the American people. *P.S.... The ones grasping at straws are the ones who are TRAILING in the polls......i.e.....Obama zombies.

Here's a quote from Obama's speech on Sept. 12, one day after the attack. This was not an off-hand comment, it was in an official speech given at the White House. Sorry that many on the right need the word "terrorism" in there instead of "acts of terror", I guess some are easily confused.

"No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done."

Seems clear to me that he plans to find out who did this "act of terror", I don't understand how it can be confusing. Maybe his speech writers need to dumb things down a little for some.

An example of an off-hand comment would be Romney, the day of the attack, politicizing the deaths of Americans -
“I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”

You might notice that in addition to the obvious lies, he never mentioned terrorism in his statement. He never even mentioned "acts of terror", which apparently are different from terrorism in some eyes.

JS, you left off the two preceeding paragraphs:
Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

He was talking about 9/11/2001 immediately before making that statement and many think that is the act of terror he is refering to. I think it is ambiguous and can be interpreted either way. I also don't see it as really an issue since he said days later that he won't call it an act of terror yet....(i.e. on the View). What I do see as an issue is that he didn't call it an act of terror at the UN. He played softball in that speech and pulled back to the video.

No kidding. I think national political discussion is fine for this site, but calling it breaking news and putting this stuff center stage really takes away from the purpose of this site. I could go to any number of national media outlets to get this same kind of discussion. Why don't the editors of this site try to give this a local spin? The virtue of The Patch is that this is where news that I can't read anywhere else about my local community is put front and center. To me, all this national election stuff just seems out of place here.

Yes, too many lobotomized!

NO RMoney!

So you vote with the polls?

Daniel- I'd have to say your parroting of the right wing talking points has been perfected, whether they're true or not.

It was widely agreed, by mainstream (corporate-owned) media or Fox or MSNBC or liberal political sites that Romney won the first debate. How do you get from there to Obama would have been declared the winner of the last debate no matter what. I realize you probably hear "liberal media" blasted into your head every day, but your paranoia is showing.

You keep bringing up polls like they're gospel. The polls all show the people, not the media, think Obama won the debate. Do you ignore these polls but think the few polls that show Romney leading Obama in the election mean he's a lock? Check the websites that list a bunch of different polls, you'll see that Obama is leading in most of them. Cherry picking poll numbers doesn't really give a true picture.

Bill,

You need to proofread your comments you sound like the Obama speech writers.