Tonight is the third and final debate between Gov. Mitt Romney and President Obama. Although momentum is expanding for Romney, the mainstream media calls the election an essential toss up, so the debate will be very important.
The topic of the debate tonight is foreign policy.
Certainly, Americans are thrilled that Osama Bin Laden was killed and that many drone attacks have taken out many al-Qaeda leaders. However, employing any sound assessment, foreign policy under Obama is a mess.
Right out of the gate, the policies went south due to the ideology of President Obama, which seems to be at odds with many of the long held positions of Uncle Sam. Check out the following:
*Immediately, clearly a front man on the blame America first team, Obama embarked on an apology tour, which was was nothing short of despicable.
*In picking who to and who not to help overthrow, Obama welcomed in the Arab Spring, which has failed miserably and has "surprisingly" ushered the Muslim Brotherhood into increasing power.
*The treatment of Israel by our anti-colonialist President has been appalling, and very dangerous having emboldened our enemies.
*The events surrounding the death of Ambassador Stevens and three other patriots in Bengahzi has been astounding. The administration is either extremely incompetent or has engaged in a cover up and has been lying to the American public. I will take gun running for $1000 please. Although the media has not fully engaged the story, these events are beyond troubling will continue to unfold.
Blogposts galore could be written on each of those topics, but a national security issue which should come up this evening places America in a very dangerous positions, and that is our economic position.
When Ronald Reagan talked about peace through strength, he was not only talking about military strength, but economic strength as well.
A strong foreign policy must be based on a strong economy.
With President Obama expanding entitlements in effort to crash the system and redistribute wealth, liabilities have been placed on our economy that when coupled with declining tax receipts and increasing energy costs, has placed America in peril.
With all these issues bearing down upon us, Obama seems more concerned with his celebrity status rather than focusing on governing and fixing the problems. In the campaign, Obama has not given us detail about his plan for the next four years, rather has fallen back to the Alinsky methods demonizing your opponent.
As Obama has said, "
And that's to be expected, because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things".
Obama doesn't and he has. The war on women, throwing Grandma over the cliff and Big Bird are certainly very small things against tens of extremely significant and perilous problems.
In consideration of the mounting issues crippling our country, I hope and pray that America sees these men for who they are. One man is a principled, God fearing individual who seeks freedom based on free market principles and respects the history and founding principles of America. The other man seeks class warfare, is an elitist who finds government solutions superior to free enterprise, is a citizen of the world who finds the exceptionalism of America offensive and is enacting policies designed to contract our economic power through the redistribution of wealth.
With America on the brink, it is far time to put an adult back in the Oval Office, who is committed to making life better for all Americans rather than hanging out with celebrities, circling the talk show circuit and improving the golf handicap.
