Anybody who has read my blog back when I was actively blogging before has probably wondered how I have managed to have two posts without a going nuts on the political scene, especially during Election Season.\u00a0 Fear not, today is about politics.<\/p>\n
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Last night was the second Presidential Debate.\u00a0 In the first debate, my favorite candidate, President Obama, seemed a bit out of sorts.\u00a0 He was not his usual confident self, he seemed a bit haggard, and was just not as on top of things as he could have been.\u00a0 Debate number two, however, was a different story.\u00a0 He kicked ass.\u00a0 According to several sources, Obama was the winner.\u00a0 The margin was not as much as I would like, but winning is winning, regardless of the margin.<\/p>\n
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There were a couple of things said which stand out for me, both of them by Governor Romney.\u00a0 The first was where he said something about how he would make sure he took care of the whole country.\u00a0 This is in contrast to his now-infamous “forty-seven percent” comment.\u00a0 In case you missed it, he told a conference that forty-seven percent of the country did not pay taxes and how his “job is not to worry about those people.”\u00a0 As president, it is<\/em>, in fact, your job to worry about every citizen.\u00a0 Obama, who had the final closing comment in last night’s debate, brought this up, pointing out that part of that forty-seven percent are military or former military personnel who risk their lives for the U.S.\u00a0 I can only speak for myself, but I want somebody who is going to support everybody in the country, regardless of their circumstance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The other thing Romney said which bugged me is something he and his V.P. candidate have harped on a few times, and that’s that Iran is “four years closer to a nuclear weapon.”\u00a0 Okay, I’ll buy that on the surface.\u00a0 On the other hand, I am four years closer to being a millionaire, assuming I ever do.\u00a0 I think me being a millionaire is pretty unlikely, and Iran having a nuclear weapon is not likely either.\u00a0 Sure, they have some uranium, but even if they refined it enough to make a bomb, they still wouldn’t have a bomb.\u00a0 You have to build the bomb itself; the fuel is just one piece.\u00a0 Iran is under heavy scrutiny and has been for a long time.\u00a0 The odds on their building a nuclear bomb without anyone noticing (and taking action) is pretty slim.\u00a0 Even if they did make a bomb, what exactly would they do with it?\u00a0 Send it to strike the U.S.?\u00a0 We have security measures in place to stop something like that from reaching us.\u00a0 If it did reach us and blow up, we have hundreds<\/em> if not thousands of nukes to retaliate with, and plenty of lesser armaments that would be very effective without the radioactive aftermath.\u00a0 The most optimistic estimates say Iran might–might<\/em>–have as much as five bombs worth of material.\u00a0 If you’re in a gang of five bandits and you each have a gun, are you going to take on a military base with hundreds or thousands of armed soldiers?\u00a0 No, that’s a suicide mission, and while Iran may have a few suicide bombers in its population (any population of significant size will), as a country it does not want to take an action that will get the entire nation destroyed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There was plenty more to the debate, but from my admittedly biased point of view I mostly heard crap from Romney and solid plans from Obama.\u00a0 My vote was never in question, but if it was, last night’s debate would have swayed me towards the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anybody who has read my blog back when I was actively blogging before has probably wondered how I have managed to have two posts without a going nuts on the political scene, especially during Election Season.\u00a0 Fear not, today is about politics. Last night was the second Presidential Debate.\u00a0 In the first debate, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}