Who wants Candy?

Candy Crowley... utterly useless as a moderator.  Wow.

Well, I'd say that Obama has kept one promise in his first term... he certainly threw the "polite" factor out the window, didn't he?  He was angry, confrontational and very defensive.  For me, that does not read as "confident", which is a word used frequently in describing Obama's performance in the media this morning.

Romney was less than stellar, again.  In fact, I'd grade his performance last night as "poor".  Especially on such basic topics as immigration, taxes and gun control.  He should have owned those topics, but muddled through with almost no point made.

How many times did Obama say "We need to create jobs in this country."?  Why wasn't it brought to his attention that he has had four years to create jobs, and routinely says he created 5 million of them?  Why wasn't it shown that, even if he did create 5 million jobs, 9 million were lost in the four years he's already been President?  There has been NO gain in unemployment since 2008... none.  Why not?

When asked about gun control, and the danger of certain weapons being in the hands of people who shouldn't have them (i.e. the Aurora shooter), when was it going to be explained that the weapons owned and used by criminals are ALREADY ILLEGAL?  The tragedy that was the shooting in that Aurora, CO theater isn't the result of what weapons were employed to execute those people... it was the result of an unbalanced mind committing a horrific crime.  Using the Aurora tragedy as an example of why a new weapons ban is needed is tantamount to saying that all cars should be outlawed because someone kills another person while drunk driving.  We can't blame gun violence in this country on a breakdown of the nuclear family, for Pete's sake... we need to see it for what it is:  a biased view of a symptomatic aspect of ANY multi-cultural, diverse population wherein 380 million people coexist.  Liberal media pundits look at Aurora as THE symptom, but in reality the problem lies in the FACT that every 45 seconds in this country, someone is held at gun-point by an assailant in a crime.  These guns are procured illegally, are possessed illegally, and are utilized in an illegal activity by CRIMINALS.  Denying law-abiding citizens their rights does NOTHING to stop the problem.

Romney also dropped the ball on the Benghazi question.  Yes, the President said "terrorist attacks" in the Rose Garden... but attributed the "attacks" to an anti-Islamic video, just as Romney was alluding to.  Why would he allow himself to get tripped up like that?  Where was his head?

A very poor performance indeed.