THE TRAGEDY OF THIS DEBATE

The tragedy of this debate is that Obama has to share the stage with an advantage taker. The Spanish have a word, vantejista, for people like him. He has spent his life looking for vulnerabilities in companies (and people), things he could take advantage of and made a fortune doing it. Honesty, morality, and things like that have no place in his thinking—only money counts. He knows that ostentatious charity will wipe out the shame of how he earned all the money he gives. If that isn’t bad enough, look at his running mate Paul Ryan. The man would not even be the subject of polite conversation a few years ago and now a major republican party wants him for vice president. The man is a disciple of Ayn Rand the author of The Virtues of Selfishness; there could not be a worse political philosophy in any but a bestial society. Go one-step farther and look at Karl Rove; the dirt bag of politics is collecting money from corporations to support them. He his harvesting the fruits of his labors as a Bush aide when helped to corrupt the Federal court system and the Supreme Court which gave us Citizens United. Like the old adage that says, show me a man’s library and I will know the man; show he a man’s associates and I will know the man.       

Romney is not presidential material—the only reason he has any status at all is that he will be on the same debate stage as Obama. Think about the Noble prize.  The committee awarded the prize to Obama because the man stands for the hope of peace and he has delivered. Does any sane person think that committee would ever consider Romney-Ryan for the Noble Peace Prize? For me, that thought alone points out the winner.