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Having not being able to view the Obama-Romney Debate live and in person, I subjected myself to hearing the recap from pundits, commentators and those experts who seem to have their finger on the pulse of the political events shaping our world.  According to them, I half expected to see Mitt Romney as an aggressive overseer, holding a whip and taming both Barack Obama and the moderator Jim Lehr.  The vision I had was Romney’s complete command from beginning to end and Obama just standing in a corner somewhere refusing to look in Romney’s direction in fear of being lashed for disobedience.  However after watching it in it’s entirety, the debate that I saw was completely different than the one I had heard about.  This made me begin to questioned if I had witnessed a completely different one. The one that I saw, showed me how gracious Obama really is toward someone he disagrees with.  It showed me that he could deliver a devastating and direct hit to his opponen...

While you will not see me asking for a Republican ballot at the polling place come the general election, I still was quite disturbed by the first Republican debate hosted by Fox and the Republican Party of South Carolina.   I was disappointed for several reasons but the ultimate was the disregard shown by those who had spoke like they were going to run, defended the party as if it was a close family member but did not show up at all. According to a staff reporter for My Fox Phoenix in an article titled First Republican Presidential Debate Kicks Off , the reason “some top tier candidates were excluded from competing due to FOX rules specifying that candidates must have formed a presidential exploratory committee with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and paid a filing fee with the Republican Party of South Carolina.”   I believe that these debates had been scheduled far enough in advance that those top tier candidates had plenty of time to prepare.   Even though th...