A lot of high-fallutin' words here. I've got a better idea: read what the papers write, and listen to the network news. Then believe the opposite.

In Mitts case wouldn't that be the Mandate of Moroni?

Actually, Obama does have a memorable line which ranks up there with the all time memorable lines..."You didn't build that."

So much for the Arab Spring.........

LZK

What this government needs is a good dose of Irish Spring.

I applaud what one write said that Romney was debating an empty chair. Now we realize how smart Clint really was in his speech.

Regarding future debates, I think one of 2 things will occur.
.... Obama will issue instructions that he will NOT debate Mitt again and that his handlers had better come us with something to make that non-debate happen. He will remind 'them' that he was told he would not have to do anything more than look presidential, read the teleprompter and play golf.
.... If the debate IS held, Obama will try to accuse Mitt of racism. The race card put the president in office. He has failed in the presidency. Now, the race card is all he has left.

I hope Mitt is ready for being accused of basing all his future plans on a 'white only' basis.

I think that #8 is probably right. This guy cannot stand a situation where he is not the focus of the room. He must be adored and catered to by all involved. His thin skin will have to eventually come out and he will have a total meltdown.

This is what happens when you boo GOD. Every direction seems to be going steeply up hill.

This is one of the best articles I have read on the subject. This is wha the writer is talking about.. Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Great line for Ryan in the VP debate..."The economy is dead and al queda is alive."

Obama is in a dangerous (yeah) predicament. He must be the sggressor in the next two debates, but he must also still look "cool" and "reserved".

He is not capable of putting on the performance Mitt did last night. He cannot disagree without rancor. My prediction, he will come out hard, Mitt will respond hard and O will start to ramble aimlessly and come across not only as unintelligable but crass and simply mean. His thin skin and complete ignorance of criticism almost guarantees this.

The next moderator is going to go after Mitt like a starving tick on the worlds last hound dog. I expect downright rude cut offs, very strict clock watching (for Mitt, not Obama) and for any sequence in which Mitt looks "presidential" to be immediately cut off and the subject changed.

I doubt Mitt will allow it, his challenge is to be as rude as possible and still look "cool" and "reserved". Thats a very tough act to pull off. Make no mistake, in the next debate the deck will be stacked and there will be two opponents gunning for Romney, Obama and the leftwing "moderator". I hope Mitt is up to the challenge.

Perfect metaphor for the Emperor as of 2012 - he's lost the mandate of heaven....

You have to realize that this is Obama's first REAL contest. He has had previous political positions essentially handed to him without much effort until 2008, and during the last election, the media covered up his radical past so well that people thought he was a moderate black guy who was going to heal the racial divide.

Four years of arrogant and authoritarian rule has made his extreme left ideology more obvious to everyone. He does not have anonymity nor as monopolistic a media to shield him from being exposed for the often unthinking ideologue that he truly is.

But the damage of an Obama presidency to the political stability of the world especially in an increasingly unstable Middle East and North Africa, has already been done and is too late for America to put that evil genie back in the bottle.

Great itemization of the unraveling of the Emperor. The Lord raises up and the Lord brings down.

You are right #3, "You didn't build that" may have been the very beginning of his demise.

Last night was an "answer" to many prayers. There are countless Christians fasting and praying for God's will to be done in and through US.

Obama is a pompous person who thinks he can do anything, never to be held accountable and now finding out that without a teleprompter, he is an empty suit, unable to stand tall and impressive. Whoever inputs that teleprompter is the "brain" behind this man!

Mitt Romney displayed a man with confidence and trust in God and the American people, that together, we can turn this country around.

Romney is not seeking power. He wants to use his expertise given to him by Almighty God, to save thi country from the aftermath of Obama's rule and reign with secretive means with his czars and anyone who honors him.

Thank God for His intervention. Continue to pray for His will to be done here on earth just as it is in Heaven, where Peace/Love/Joy fill the atmosphere!

Thank You Jesus for coming to set the captives free! Satan must flee when we seek His presence!

May this country be grateful for this man (Romney) who "chooses" to stand up for the gigantic chore of "cleaning" the government that has sought to control US, not bringing US together as our forefathers foresaw their responsibility.

I hope that 0bama does try to play the race card in the next debate. It will be the clearest sign possible of the desperation in the WH. Romney will be ready for it. Hopefully he will say something Reaganesque like, "Is that all you've got?".

While entitled, oh so entitled, #2, that isn't helpful. I'm probably the most anti-cult parishioner of this here Mother Church, and I see Mr. Romney as part of the solution.

While I'm at it, I might as well get flame-proofed on immigrants. Perhaps the family-centric, religious Mexicans we've so decried will help us get rid of all the focus on gay marriage when they vote on the matter. Gays have ALWAYS BEEN free to be together any way they choose. But that's a subject for another debate.

#3 is correct, but don't forget that "everyone is entitled to their FAIR share".

Axelrod to Obama: " A fine mess you got us into Ollie."

In simple terms, I think we will have already hit Libya before the foreign policy debate begins. They will have to try something. Obama has been a failure there too.

To call the Obama Administration a target rich environment is to. . .well, it's hard to make up a metaphor under such extreme circumstances. It would probably involve sand on a beach.

I was glad that Romney hammered home the fact that Obama gave away $90 billion to the Green Industry. The only thing that Obama got out of it was bundled case from the failed companies.
$90 Billion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the point of the article is well taken, an election is NOT a rational process. People often choose a candidate because they like him. Or because their friends like him. Or that he is a sharp dresser. Or because he is good looking. Or that he had an appearance on Oprah or Letterman. Or because their favorite TV star endorses him. Or because they think he is a winner.

Real events can erode some of those good perceptions. No doubt that many people that support BO are still disappointed in his presidency. But the support remains.

Until, for some, sometimes insignificant reason, their opinion shifts. And they no longer like him enough to support him. And for some strange reason, it can happen like a wave, with many people coming to the same recognition simultaneously.

BO on a debate stage, naked without his media shield, was seen to be incapable of standing up to Mitt Romney. His demeanor was uncomfortable and angry. He doesn't seem worthy of respect or support. He was pitiable but not electable. Will that be the beginning of the wave? Perhaps?

This is a very interesting article. I like how he broke down the path of the summer and all the failures recently of Obama.

From here, there are two alternatives: 1. the fake president decides he'd rather spend his days golfing in Hawaii and lets Romney win by default, and 2. in collusion with the MSM, the sneakiest, most insidious October Surprise is unleashed, either as a bomb from above or as a million invisible snakes in the grass, and the nation stands on the brink, in effect, of a coup d'etat. I'm hoping for alternative 1.

Alternative 3, that the Democrats will conduct an honest campaign from here to November 6 - LOL!!!

Yes, there was great symbolism in the melting of the sand sculpture, more powerful than the styrofoam Greek columns which heralded Obama's entrance.

The next debate (October 16th) on foreign and domestic policy, employs a “Town Meeting” format. Since Obama, his advisors and the LSM have all shown that they are more than willing to lie and cheat to retain power, the risk that the Dems and/or the Moderator (CNN’s Candy Crowley) will try to stack the audience with liberal ideologues or screen the questions in advance to favor Obama; Romney must be prepared to face a stacked deck.

However, I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if Obama tries to avoid the debate. A likely scenario would be to have a seal team or squad of drones attack the “secret base” of the al Qaeda group that attacked our Consulate in Benghazi. The attack will occur within the last 24 hours before the scheduled debate and Obama will bow out to handle the crisis. Although it’s been reported that US intelligence had identified and begun tracking some of the terrorists within 24 hours of the attack, Obama will announce that, “we just found out where they were located and had to act fast.” You know, just like the attack on bin Laden that he postponed at least 3 times.

I had a sense last night that before and during the debate Obama was supported by good wishes and thought by his supporters.

Mitt Romney was supported by a covenant of prayer all across this great land of ours.

We see who is in charge.

I was deep in prayer for at least 15 minutes before that debate started, and I know that there were millions of others doing the same. God is still in charge, and His will be done.

So far the only thing that goes wrong for obozo - he is not a dictator yet! Lucky us!

I always thought that helping Obie re-connect his anger with his inner self would come to a head. It happened last night. Challenging his authority puts him into a wobble...every time.

With you, #28. How many Christians can think of that sand statue and not think of the Foolish Man who built his house upon the sand?

No, not wrong all at once, his criminal plans caught up with him and Mitt is the Policeman!

#13, all Mitt has to do is play Gingrich. His trashing of the Lame Stream Media played very well in America. No one loves the media, in fact most hate the media and any politician that takes them down a few noches is golden!...He just has to do it nicely.

I'm sorry, did I just hear you helping the President with his answer? Why don't you help me, don't you believe in sharing the wealth?

Really, you cut me off mid sentence and moved to another subject! You gave President Obama a pass and let him go over for at least 3 minutes on a previous question, is that fair? I think not, I demand time to rebut the prior discussion where you cut me off.

And So on.

Make the MSM goon like a terrorist, pounce on them for their obvious bias and unfairness...believe me the MSM is in the tank for Obie and Mitt can use that against both of them!

I'm going to go with the Chicoms on the validity of this.

Way back in the 190s, I lived in Southeast Asia. A series of events in Indonesia were so strange and unfortunate that all the Indonesians knew something was really wrong even though the president was still in power. The series went like this:

*A Filipino engineer fell out of an airplane after exposing a big gold mine investment as fake. Eerie.

*Haze like nothing ever seen in Asia came as the result of forest fires in Sumatra. Nobody could breathe or see. The smoke and fire were a symbol of something.

*The currency devalued, the final domino in a chain of currency devaluations all through the region. Really serious.

*The central bank building burned.

*Suharto insisted he would run for office one last time. Everyone thought this was insane, he was too old.

*The currency REALLY devalued, terrifying the public. Banks collapsed, billboards through the capital went blank, radios in the countryside went silent, all was eerie.

*The IMF rolled in and fuel subsidies ended. Cooking oil prices shot through the roof. People were enraged.

*Students began protesting. Three students were shot at Trisakti University. Bells were ringing all over the place, this had never happened before.

*Suharto went to Egypt for a nonaligned conference meeting.

*The city exploded into riots and was on fire by the time Suharto came back. Chinatown burned. The military shot up skyscraper windows.

*Within a week or two, Suharto was out. It all felt like the mandate of heaven had left him.

Obama never had a 'mandate of heaven'. It was conferred on him by his worshippers. Sadly, Proverbs 6:16-19 seems to be the realm in which he prefers to operate. His core beliefs and remorseless lying separate him from God's true blessings. Neither skin color nor political 'savvy' is a substitute for integrity or godly character.

#17, #30 and #31, I join you in asking God to give us leaders who can/will take steps to correct our course. I was not sure of Romney. But, a man who practices the higher moral tenets of his faith and lives with integrity is better than one who does not. Both the deceived and the deceiver must answer to God.

(1) Ask God to help the 'askers', 'seekers' and 'knockers' to find the truths hidden in B/O's past. The secret things belong to God who knows where everything is on earth. We need irrefutable, indisputable truth (whatever it is) before Election Day. (2) Pray that God will shatter the media's conspiracy of silence. (3) And that God will open the eyes of the American people. We must know where this nation is headed under B/O or Romney to be fully responsible for the consequences of our vote.

God loves America and will help us to keep the rights He gave us. Keep praying and thanking God. Don't lose heart. We serve a God who hears and answers prayers! :-)

One other thing: Almost all of it happened in Menteng, Jakarta, Obama's old neighborhood.

Hope it's the curse of Menteng and Obama goes out like Suharto.

Loved that "No Nookie tonight you jerk" scowl on Michelle's face when she realized Barack had failed to impress the world with his performance, no one cared about their 20th anniversary.