Without choosing a side, some of the best lines are in tonight's debate! Anyone else agree?

Romney won the debate!!!

Obama talked from a place of knowing. Romney talked from a place of practice.

Obama won the debate!!!

4 more years!

Obama kicked butt

I honestly think it was a 50/50 tie. I think no matter which one is elected, our country is in such shambles neither one is or can do anything about it. I just keep reflecting back to the old saying my grandpa told me," The rich get richer and the poor get tore". They both preach about not raising taxes and helping the middle class but let's all be realistic the money has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is from, We The People. The only ones that benefit are the crooks in Washington, D.C.. Thanks for televising the debates but I could have done without them.

"The 1980's are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War's been over for 20 years."
President Obama - 4 more years!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mitt was the "me too" candidate when it comes to foreign policy.

Mitt was the "me too" candidate when it comes to foreign policy.

Mitt won the debate ! Nobama pack your bags !

I say Barack obama should have another four years not because he's an african american, he says he gonna do better, and I'm a 14 year old trying to get the best education I can get and I'm a ninth grader

@ Jayshawn,,, He (Obama) said he was going to do better for our country "4" years ago also, we are in worse shape now than we was then.

We were at the brink of a total financial meltdown at the end of Bush years. We ARE better off. 4 more years. And, Obama win.

The question posed by this blog post was WHO WON the debate, not who are you voting for. President Obama won this debate as soundly as Mitt Romney won the first go around. As a whole, after three debates, both candidates really came out even as the second debate was a draw.

o'BAM-BAM kicked Romobutt!

Bam-Bam took the challenger to school. His command of foreign policy expertise eclipsed his opponent. Thoughts emanating from within the ill-equipped talking head's hot air stuffed suit shifted from trying hard not to blurt out the "n" word to "i could have been a contendah!

Romney makes an eye rolling claim that he will balance the budget. For the record, "Dwight Eisenhower was last Republican President to preside over a balanced budget. He had a balanced budget in 1956 and 1957. Since then, there have been two presidents to preside over balanced budgets, LBJ in 1969 and Clinton in 1998 through 2001. During the last 40 years there have been five budget surpluses, all five were under Democratic Presidents: 1969, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.

To clarify, congress authorizes the budget. Between 1955 and 1981 Democrats held majorities in both chambers of Congress. From 1981 - 1987 republicans controlled the Senate, while Democrats held onto the House and then regained the Senate while holding controlling the House as well from 1987 -1995." Source: wiki.answers.com

Let's see...
Romney - fewer teachers and larger classrooms will improve Americas standing in world education.
Obama - more teachers, smaller classes, will improve the education level and help the middle class.

Score: Romney -0, Obama -1

Re: raising taxes:
Romney: He wont raise taxes on people in the top 1%. He wants to cut funding to medicare by making it a voucher system, he wants to increase military spending, and balance the budget. This is all easy to him - he will do it the same way he managed Bain Capital. Layoffs, layoffs, layoffs. Also, simple math says that we need lots of cash from somewhere. Well if he wont raise taxes on the RICH - guess who is going to get the brunt of the tax increase?

Obama - wants to increase taxes on people earning more than $250,000 per year. The 3% to someone earning $250k is $7,500 in additional taxes. A) the $7500 is not much relative to $250k (sure i would want to keep it if i earned that much - but look at the alternative). B) To a person earning $30,000 3% is $900. With the price of groceries and rent/mortgage who do you think needs that 3% more?

Obama has a difficult road ahead for the next 4 years continuing to repair what Bush did over the previous 8 years.

Romney will lead us to a dual class system with the rich and the working class. He may also lead us to WWW III.

G-d help us all.

Hmmm, it's better to have some fiscal responsiblity and cut a few things now rather than having to cut a lot more in the very near future. Obama appointed the Simpson and Bowles commission to look at ways to reduce the overspending - and he completely ignored their bipartisan recommendations. This is one big problem I have with Obama (who I had voted for). He simply does not have it in him to reduce spending and get things under control. He is stuck on this argurment of making captial-gains earner pay more - but even so, that will hardly make a dent in the year-to-year overspending. We have never had such a fiscal mess in U.S. history - this is the most important issue we should be concerned with.

Who in there rite mind wud vote for mitt?

Obama won. Easy

When Bush left office, our economy was in shambles, retirement funds were in the dump, the TARP bailout of the banks and auto industry had been passed, & the world economy was in a tailspin. Nearly all TARP bailout funds were paid back by 2010, yet Obama is scapegoated over a successful job and economy saver law passed by Bush? People angry over Obamacare base it on lies and half truths, like Republican-sponsored provisions exempting Congress that did not pass. Untruths are circulated in ads, by so-called "think tanks", editorials, & politicians. Somehow voters forget the mess this country was in, the horror we all felt as we watched attempts to save coal miners from cave ins miles below the earth due to the owners' exemptions from safety regulations; that coal has been replaced not because of regulations but because gas is cheap. If you can't be bothered to "truth check" what you read & hear, try just reading the news (& what happened to your retirement plans & investments) from the months just before and after Obama took office to help you remember how the lack of regulations didn't produce jobs. It killed miners, businesses, jobs, our economy and left a lot of people homeless as their homes were foreclosed on. Read anything from 2008 - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/business/worldbusiness/26iht-layoffs.1.17246245.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 . Obama guided us out of that tailspin. My answer? Yes, we are in far better shape today then we were when Bush left us in a mess.

I am a Canadian, I worry if Romney became President that would affect everyone around the world in a very negative way. just because Romney can change his colours like a chameleon does not make it true. Romney is for the super rich, period, he is an agressive, errogant man that is part of the elite that takes to fill their pockets and does not give a damn about the average people. He believes himself to be better than the rest of us, that is NOT a leader, thats a destroyer. Just listen to what his son said after the second debate was finished. Romneys son said he wanted to punch Obama in the face, except that he knew he could not because of the security. THat says alot about what a man is really about. And what someone says behind closed doors is really what they believe, the rest is simply to con the masses by saying whatever it takes to win an election.The 47% Mitt said to his pals the very rich, behind closed doors, is the real Mitt Romney. A good question to be asked is why does he want to be President. I hope everybody goes out and votes Obama. Please dont forget what happened before Obama took office, it is alot for any one to fix in 4 years.. THis is an extremely important vote for all of you. To have Mitt as your leader & Ryan. Yikes, go back and really look at what they believe, what they show on the outside is just a facade, I love you he says, while stabbing you in the back. Us Canadians hope for Obama, the alternative is too dangerous for us all.

Obama clearly won. He was confident, knowledgeable, and authoritative. He wasn't a "me too" responder.

Hey America! How's that economy looking today? How about your 401k? As big company after big company reports losses,layoffs or lower than expected earnings.

Hey Dave Lenane, If you are being at all objective, or should I say fair and balanced, you would agree the economy is a mixed bag. The S&P 500 index is about + 36% for the last 3 years and the DJIA is about + 35% for the same period. As for layoffs, don't layoffs lead to leaner more profitable enterprises and therefore good news for our 401Ks. Isn't that the Bain way?

Dave Lenane, I didn't think "job creators" had time to blog and laugh on the job. Maybe things are better than you let on.

Obama's fear was displayed in his anger. He had "eyes that could kill" and did not present himself as anything more than a scared kid who didn't want his toys taken away. I agree with Romney in that I don't want four more years on this miserable ship... with Obama at the helm, we're going down quickly.

I think Obama won; however, it's not about jobs or the economy. It's about Obama's secret agenda to take the country down a socialist path. Elect him and see the real Obama show up.

I don't believe Obama is used to being challenged in anything. He has been handed things his entire life. Not saying he didn't work hard once he got into Harvard and Columbia...but how many people that have gone through 2 Ivy's come out of it having a hard time getting by in life?

Romney was called a wimp early in the campaign by some media outlets. Then he stood up to Obama and was labeled a bully.

I cannot understand why media and celebrity types, who are well into "Republican" areas of salary, always side Democrat? What does Seth MacFarlane(creator of Family Guy, $100M contract with Fox) or Alec Baldwin know about being "working class"? Then again, with all of this big money coming in from celebs and Super PACs, when was the last time either party in America truly represented the working class....?

I cant hold back laughing. The Obama's came from middle class families and earned money the regular way - they earned it. Romney has more money than the last 7 presidents COMBINED. The reason he pays 14% income tax is because he ONLY has interest income. In other words he lives off the interest of his investments and is still able to give millions away. If Obama has a silver spoon, then Romney has the titanium spoon.

Chris L - i agree with you - it is an embarrassment that ANY politician would do what Kerry did. I am glad he was caught and made to rectify what he did.

I would also agree that Obama has ghosts and imperfections in his closet. He is not perfect, he is not a saint - far from it.

Personally - i am more concerned about how Romney will "balance" the budget - at what cost? He has stated that classroom sizes should be larger - not smaller - this is a concern. When he was gov of MA he cut state funding to towns and many towns around us aren't doing too well. fortunately we have a good team running our town (no idea their political views) and they have kept nboro in better than just "good" shape. In fact, MA as a whole is in better shape with health care, property taxes, schools - than most of the other states in the US. Last night Romney tried to take credit for some of this - but he has been out for 10 years - and the dems have been running the state since. also some of the programs he tried to take credit for - were in place before he came to office.

so i am not an obama lover - but rather - just scared of romney's ideas of what should be done and how to go about it.

I don't usually comment online but since this was about international affairs... did anyone notice that Romney said 'Great Britain' and Obama used 'United Kingdom'? I'm sure the people of Northern Ireland picked up on that one.That use of terminology shows that lack of experience in foreign affairs... and lack of education in history. It's the UK or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.It's understandable for the common American to make that mistake....inexcusable for a Presidential candidate.

So there is no question Obama won the debate.I saw Romeny just hoping to not make any mistakes....... because, frankly, while the world is a tumultuour place, the Obama administration has patched of 8 years of detachment from world affairs (look at the first 10 months of international actions by Bush) and the aftermath of a hand-ons geopgraphy lesson of the Middle East.All within an un-united Congress. And while being a person of African heritage. IMHO, quite a feat.

In my household, we know a lot about the business of health care. Obama, like fixing the financial mess, is spot on when it comes to health care.He is doing the right thing for the long term. Money is being save RIGHT NOW... it is already effective.The yuppie MD's from the 80's might not be allowed to over examine & test us anymore (which is not popular with that group)but we will have more internist because the specialists are not being reward unduly.
-a decided registered independent

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/07/mitt-the-twit-in-london.html

http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/did-romney-help-himself-on-his-trip-to-britain-israel-and-poland

a true business magazine trying to make sense of a gaffe... which shows lack of diplomatic wisdom:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2012/08/05/another-media-gaffe-romney-in-israel/

Romney knows the economy is the main issue and that he's ahead in this race. All he had to do in the third debate was appear knowledgeable and presidential and not appear to be argumentative or pugnacious. He did just that, and made Obama look argumentative and pugnacious. It's called Rope-a-Dope and it worked brilliantly in my opinion. Obama may have won on debate points, but I believe he lost votes rather than gained them.

Mitt won the debate hands down, somebody should tell our current commander in chief that Marines and Soldiers still carry bayonets. Obama just isn't going to lose but he is going to lose big...the vocal minority, liberal media and all their smoke and mirrors stunts are not winning this one...Brown will win big too.

Just wondering if reading this would change anybody's mind??? Does anybody really win?

http://news.yahoo.com/drone-of-silence-the-national-security-policy-that-obama-and-romney-wont-debate-10251296.html

general questions to voters... What is more important to you, what Romney does with his own money or what Obama does with America's money? Which affects you the most?

Obama did NOT win!!! Making rude remarks and stupid jokes...acting like a child! You call that winning? Obama can make fun of people all he wants, but Romney will get America back on track.