I'm getting caught up on this debate since I once again slept through it live x.x

There are a number of my favorite lines but I'm going to start with this one. I was impressed by the talk of Russia. Obama brings it up, basically sneering at Romney, but Romney turns it around calmly and corrects him on his exact words. Obama tries to interrupt but Romney raises his hand and not even missing a beat says "Excuse me" and continues to finish what he was saying. That was cool. I dig it when someone can prevent someone from interrupting without being rude or raising their voice.

I was also impressed by Romney mentioning the President's "more flexibility" soundbyte to Russia I think most of America has forgotten about this by now, even I had until he mentioned it and I had to go look it up again. I always thought this exchange was a bit sketchy.

Obama mentioning Romney's lack of having to actually deal with foreign policy is kind of ironic considering his opponents in the 2008 election were saying the same thing about him, so he would have done well not to remind America of that. It annoys me a bit that he feels it was just fine for him to have no experience with foreign policy in 2008 but now its a problem, even though Romney has more experience in government and business than Obama had when he took office.

My favorite quotes:


'Well, Mr President, foreign policy - by definition - is supposed to be all over the map.'

'Attacking me is not an agenda.'

'Mr President, we have not dictated to other nations, we have freed other nations from dictators.'

'I’m not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin. And I’m certainly not going to say to him, I’ll give you more flexibility after the election. After the election, he’ll get more backbone.'

'In the 2000 debates, there was no mention of terrorism, for instance. And a year later, 9/11 happened. So, we have to make decisions based upon uncertainty, and that means a strong military.'


The transcript.
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The video.