Presidential Deba, Obama Vs. Romney

Barack obama made history four years ago to become the first African-American president and the 44th president of the United States. He was born on august 14, 1961 in Hawaii, to a Kenyan father and a white American mother from the state of Kansas. Mr. Obama joined politics in the year 1996 and won a seat in Illinois state senate. In 2008 he tremendously won the November 2008 to become the 44th of the United States. On the other hand, Mitt Romney is a renowned former Massachusetts governor who delivers a powerful insight on the present and future challenges facing the U.S economy. He is also known for his leadership and achievements as a public servant and in private businesses. He has greater achievements especially between the year 1978 to 1984 when he was the vice president of Bain and companies. Unlike Obama, Romney was first elected as the governor of Massachusetts in 2002 where he also brought quite encouraging developments like sustainable economic growth.

The anticipated presidential debates between President Barack Obama, and the former Massachusetts governor come businessman, Mitt Romney attracted millions of viewers across the U.S.A. The first televised debate was held at the University of Denver in Denvier, Colorado, and was moderated by Jim Lehrer. While the second debate held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, and it was moderated by Candy Crowley, a CNN chief political correspondent. Unlike in the first debate, in the second debate, the audience was allowed to occupy the stage forming a circular pattern in the middle. In both debates, the president was accompanied by his wife, Michelle Robinson, and his two daughters, Sasha and Malia. And on the other hand, Romney was accompanied by his wife, Ann Davies, and some of his children and grandchildren.

Both scenes were well decorated, and the red carpets made the venues look awesome. Also, in both debates, the candidates were in elegant black suit, with a white fitting shirt, each. The only difference was their tie; in the first debate, Obama had a plain blue tie, while Romney had a red stripped tie. While in the second debate, obama had a maroon tie while Romney had a blue tie with white strips. They warmly received each other with a hug, in the first debate. However, in the second debate, only simple perfunctory handshakes were observed and the big smiles that were evident on their faces throughout the first debate were nowhere to be seen in the second debate. There were steady eye contacts in the first debate between the rivals than the second debate. They faced each other like a lion ready to pounce on its prey. In the second debate more eye contacts were between the candidates and the audience.

In the first debate, the president used his opening chance to wish his beloved wife, who was seated in the audience section, a wonderful 20th wedding anniversary. This seemed to irritate Romney who jabbed at the president: “Congratulations Mr. President on your anniversary. Am sure this was the most romantic place you can imagine, here with me. ” This sent the audience in to a laugh and nearly turning the event into a comic show. On the other hand, Romney took this chance to give accounts on how unemployment is making the Americans to suffer; he gave a scenario where a woman once grabbed his arm, cried for not having a job since May.

Unlike in the first debate, Romney was the first to address the audience by answering a question from one of the audience, and then the president came second. The meeting took the form of a town meeting, where audience posted questions to the candidates about foreign and domestic issues. Obama answered the

In the first debate, the focus was on the domestic policy from which the issue of economy took the center stage, especially, the issue of worsening unemployment. The two rivals differed over taxes, mechanisms needed to regulate unemployment and deficits in the ailing economy with each candidate striving to portray himself as a champion of the middle class. While in the second debate, the candidates were answering question from the panel 82 audience who were uncommitted voters. The body language and gesturing of hands was a clear indication how aggressive the rivals were to each other. The two economic pillars, employment and taxes, are the campaigning weapons for Romney to punch blows in to the face of Obama in the race to white house. This was evident throughout the first debate as Romney centered his arguments on the economy claiming that Obama had totally failed the U.S economy.

In the second debate, president Obama was seeking to recover from the previous defeat by Romney. He accused Romney of trying to mislead voters with his “sketch deals” which cannot give a clear economic policy. He also criticized Romney for the statement he made during a meeting “behind closed doors” that 47% of Americans depend on government and they have failed to take responsibility for their lives. Mr. Romney, on the other hand accused Mr. Obama of falsely claiming in his answer to have termed the incident that occurred in Benghazi, Libya as an “act of terror” during his remarks at the white house the following day. Unlike the first debate, the candidates moved freely leaving their stools while addressing the audience.

In the first debate, Mr. Romney at one point appeared to lecture the president when, President Obama accused him of intending to cut education funds. He said, “Mr. President, you’re entitled to your own airplane and your own house, but not your own facts.” This was not the case in the second debate; the president threw continuous blows on Mr. Romney from his first answer.

In both debates, Mr. Romney said his intentions are to stabilise the American economy, eliminate Obama’s health care plan, lower deficits, readopt Medicare, and forward a substitute for legislation amendments to avoid another financial tragedy like the one that is currently looming in the U.S economy. However, he provided no details on how he will achieve these proposals even after Obama’s jabbing.

Rhetorically, Obama asked during the first debate: “At some point the American people have to ask themselves: Is the reason Governor Romney is keeping all these plans secret, is it because they’re going to be too good?, because middle class families benefit too much? No.”

Oh! I think this was a good question. If you carefully examine the question, you will spend the whole day before you come up with the correct answer, but anyway, its politics.

Ask Lehrer, it was a hectic moment for him to enforce the set fifteen minute segments covering the health care, economy, among other topics as the two rivals extended their time limit throughout the debate. His authority was not felt at all, and even Romney went further to declare to Lehrer that if he becomes the president, he will stop the subsidization of the PBS. There was sanity in the second debate; hence, Crowley had easier time in moderating the candidates.

After the first debate, a lot of questions lingered in the minds Americans about the accuracy of the speeches made by the two contestants. President obama’s campaign team, on the other had vowed to attack Romney’s side especially after Mr. Romney gave statements which were mere editorial to support his policies. These claims have been proved in the second debate, when Mr. Obama came out strongly swinging, and stricking immediately at Romney’s opposition in tackling of issues such as the automobile industry.

In the first debate, Romney won decisively which saw his popularity increase in polls. He made the President restless and gave him a rough time in defending his policies. Unfortunately, some analysts’ claim that what Romney said were only but a mere bunch of lies, contradicting his initial positions. And what Obama did was to watch him get away with contradictions and lies throughout the night. In the second debate, the president came out strongly to claim a clear win over Romney with opinion polls giving a 46% and 37% score to the president and Mr. Romney respectively.

In summary, people across the world are waiting for the November election, to see who will the next president. Will the current president be re-elected? This is the big question to many.