The President Is A Chronic Pathological Liar

Last night’s debate was a hard debate to watch.  Let’s face it, the President is a hard person to watch speak.  On a performance basis, the President did a lot better than he did in the first debate.  He was animated, aggressive, and on the attack.  All of the establishment pundits were surprised he was as aggressive as he was in a townhall-style debate.  It’s not all that surprising when you realize all he has is to be aggressive, and to attack Governor Mitt Romney.  What made it hard to watch was the flat out lies and misrepresentations that President Barack Obama used for his talking points.  How he can lie with such a straight face, and so often, proves to me that he has a medical condition of chronic pathological lying.  He can’t help himself.

President Obama didn’t stop at lying and misrepresenting Gov. Romney’s plans for America.  In his more aggressive and spirited debate performance, President Obama still never answered the questions and offered his own plans.  He still doesn’t have an agenda for the next four years.  The President also makes promises that were never intended to be the responsibility of the federal government.  He promises to hire 100,000 more teachers, but never explains how’s going to grow the economy so that we’ll have the money to be able to hire more teachers.

Governor Romney has the harder job than President Obama in this campaign.  President Obama can make lofty promises because in his Keynesian economic philosophy he can just spend and borrow more money to pay for his promises.  Governor Romney knows economics and money.  He knows that spending and borrowing to pay for things is not sustainable.  Therefore, Governor Romney has to get into the boring policy weeds of explaining policy, and hope the people don’t fall asleep.

President Obama’s solution to fixing the economy is to “invest” in solar and wind and other alternative energy sources.  Insert failed and bankrupted companies like Solyndra and A123, and then multiple those “investments” and multiple our debt and deficits by trillions.  What President Obama refuses, or just doesn’t care, to acknowledge is that the government does not make “investments.”  It spends and borrows money, and puts America deeper and deeper into debt.

He didn’t hit anything out of the park, but Governor Romney did maintain his momentum after last night’s debate.  His best moment and argument was when he recited President Obama’s economic failings of the last four years, listing fact after fact.  Governor Romney’s weakest moments were when he didn’t really explain why his plans would work better than President Obama’s, and on foreign policy questions regarding Libya.  It’s clear Governor Romney is at his best when he talks economics.

Yes, President Obama had a better night last night because he was more spirited and more aggressive in attacking Governor Romney.  However, he was still the vague-arrogant-pathological-liar that Americans have come to know.

20/20 hindsight is everything, but Governor Romney missed some big opportunities to put President Obama on the hot seat.  He should’ve brought up President Obama’s failed energy “investments.”  He also should’ve brought up the recent Libya hearings that showed that the Obama Administration failed to provide the necessary security in Benghazi when State Department testimony revealed that they denied requests for more security.  Governor Romney should’ve also focused on asking the President why it took his Administration over two weeks to get the Libya story correct if the President wasn’t hiding anything.

If we’re talking about content and substance.  Governor Romney clearing won last night’s debate because he talked about his real plans, and had the truth and facts on his side.  However, if we’re talking about performance, then it was a tie.  Governor Romney’s performance was about as well as he did in the first debate, so he didn’t hurt his momentum.  President Obama’s greatly improved performance helped him keep Governor Romney from expanding his lead.

Governor Romney will have a chance to sharpen his foreign policy plans and talking points for the third and final debate.  His foreign policy team should be giving him daily briefings on foreign policy and national security issues, as well as work with is speech writing team to sharpen and focus his foreign policy message to be more coherent and clear.