“[Mitt Romney] will bring back the foreign policy of the 1980s, the social policy of the 1950s and the economic policy of the 1920s.” — President Barack Obama The finale of the trio of presidential debates between incumbent President Barack Obama[1]and Republican Party hopeful, Mitt Romney[2], didn’t offer the pyrotechnics of the first and, perhaps, even the second debate. What the showdown at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida did prove was that in a proper setting, there is no more effective debater than President Obama when it comes to being clear in delivery and facts. Using the numbers from a variety of snap polls over the night, it appears the “undecideds” have given the nod to the POTUS as well. RELATED: Fact Vs. Fiction: 3rd Presidential Debate[3] From pundits and commentators on television, to a variety of folks chiming in via social media channels[4], it is clear that Obama won tonight’s debate. For much of the pivotal foreign policy face-off, Obama looked his opponent s ...
Barely a week goes by without me getting a request to do an interview with mainstream media about something regarding President Barack Obama. It began during the 2008 presidential election and peaked not long after the Big Chief won and the country was entranced with the idea of a post racial America. This was the concept that since the country elected an African-American president, we had gotten past the issue of racism, that we were somehow all color blind, Kumbaya, We are the World, Don’t Worry Be Happy and all that stuff. Well, that didn’t last too long. As the President’s tenure in the White House progressed, we saw some unprecedented displays of bad behavior including him being yelled at “You lie!” at a State of the Union Address by Rep. Joe Wilson, and being called the “d” word by Time Magazine political analyst Mark Halperin on a morning political TV show. There’s a clear double standard when it comes to the coverage of the president and the expectations of black voters. One of t ...
