In Defense of Race Relations in America Part 3

In the first part of this series which began in November of 2008, we called for a change of racist attitude and behaviour of the Cable Network News, CNN towards other nations, their leaders, and their people. The second part which was published in September of this year calls on the citizens of the United State to call a spade a spade in the current political climate in the country.  The edition also describes all the acrimonies, of lies, divisiveness, and all sorts of blackmails, deceptions, and slanders coupled with disrespect to the President of the United States, Mr. Barack Obama and his Office, the White House, as nothing else but racism.

In this Part III edition, we are concerned with the described outcome by some observers of the Presidential Debate between President Barack Obama and Mr. Mitt Romney which took place last night, Wednesday, October 3, 2012.  Many observers, most of who were of the right wing, saw Governor Romney as the one who had the upper hands in the debate because, according to these observers, Mr. Romney was the aggressor in most of his blatant and deceptive lies and claims.  This Edition is also about the conduct and attitude of Governor Romney towards the President, during the second debate of October 16, the comments of some media observers and the general feelings and comments of the public.  As one conscious observer who watched both debates throughout the evening in my living room, Governor Romney did not have any upper hand in the October 3 debate in which seemingly he was virtually coached by the likes of Romney to attack the President persistently and to lie by switching his extreme right wing position to President Obama’s well known liberal and benevolent positions.  All of a sudden, Governor Romney accepted for the first time that “Obama Care” is a good healthcare policy because he enacted a similar policy when he was Governor of Massachusetts. He queried that President Obama all by himself enacted the law that should have been brought about by bipartisan modus and for this he would repeal the law on day one if he is elected president

One also understands the concerns of those who are blamed the President for allowing Romney to go scotch free during the debate by not reechoing what was already known of Mitt Romney.  Not only did the President not behave or act presidential which he is, not spoke to the people, the world or looked into the camera, but looked away from Romney.  President Obama did not tell Romney what he, Romney is, a liar; yes, a dissector for changing his rightwing position during the debate.  I agree that the President should have done all that he is being accused or judged as having failed to do when he was standing with Romney.  The President should have remembered that if it was not in our time, and if it was possible, that Romney would have lynched him as it was a practice in the old Deep South of this nation built by immigrants.  The President should have known that verbal attacks were the least of things he should have expected from Romney, and that he the President Obama should have been ready to throw those attacks back at Romney who is yet to come to grip with this era of our civilized Minds.

On October 15, 2012 was the second debate between Barack and Mitt at Hofstra University in New York. In this debate, President Barack Obama was not only presidential, he was an authority and showed to the Americans and the world that he is the master while Mitt Romney was nothing but of an attitude of hate and disrespect to a constituted authority in the name of supposedly an aggressive debater. The President systematically and masterly explained what he has done since he became President four years ago, what, and how he would do what he intends to do if re-elected for a second term. At each point and on each question, he diligently and proficiently explained his answers to whatever question asked.  His opponent, Mitt Romney on the hand; could not answer any of the questions asked nor could he explain what, nor tell the people how he would achieve what is needed to create jobs, balance the budget and move the country forward.  How is Romney going to do this, and how is he going to balance the budget, what loophole is he going to close in other to balance the budget?  Romney was asked repeatedly, but Romney would not say a word on it, but rain attacks on Obama’s policies.  In only one answer he gave, Romney said that if he is elected President, he would set up a by-partisan committee to balance the budget, which means that Romney has no plan of his own and yet he wants to be president.  Each time Romney is pressed to revel his plans, instead, he repeated his attacks on the President and continued on how none of the President’s policies has worked and how the President had failed to fulfilled on the promises he made four years.  Romney has not been able to pinpoint which of President Obama’s policies that failed and what policy he would formulate to counter that of Obama. Many of the times, Romney was rude in many of his thuggish attitudinal racist’s moves towards the President Obama while on the floor of the debate.   

In spite of all of these deficiencies noticed in Romney, one of CNN political consultants, David Gogens alluded that Romney also did better than Obama in the second debate. David was speech writer for President Nixon, therefore a Republican. I had on some occasion listened to him because he sometimes make sense in his analyses, but the way he has been judging  and evaluating President Obama unfairly indicate that once a racist is a racist.  Those who are like him in the American media have not seen anything wrong with Romney’s utterances and rude attitude towards the President during the debate.  They do not see that Romney is lying to the American people to deceive them into voting for him before he brings out his extremely conservative policies

Obama should tell Americans that it would not take one day to open an eye that is blind for years because it took days before the eye became closed.  In the same way, it took President Bush 8 years to destroy the economy beyond repair when President Obama was elected, therefore, it is unfair to expect Obama to have completed the repair of the economy in only 4 years.