Baiting

I don't have much to say about Tuesday's debate.  Or is it the less said the better?

I generally don't watch these things since I find them pointless and frustrating.  And nothing is sillier than the town hall format. Why do we it?  To see the two candidates stalk each other?  The only place town hall style works is where everyone who's voting can fit inside a town hall. (It's not real town hall anyway, since Candy Crowley and her crew decided which questions to use--they might as well write them.)

Anyway, here's much of what I heard.

Q:  Mr. President, you did A.  Why did you do A?
A:  Who, me?  No, I did not-A.
or
A:  You must be confusing me with someone else who did that.  It was the Republicans/President Bush/bad luck.

(I do give him credit for saying the low gas prices he inherited were due to a weak economy. If that's true, could you tank things just a bit for us, enough to get gas below 3 dollars a gallon?)

Meanwhile, here's how Romney reponded a lot of the time.

Q:  We don't know what you'll do, but it sounds pretty conservative and scary.
A:  Where'd you get the impression I'm a conservative?  I've got a lot of government programs planned (that I can't go into now) that'll take care of your problem, many of them pretty much the same as President Obama's, except that his programs ruined everything.

Is it that candidates can't take any blame or admit to what they really believe, especially in a close race?  Exactly.  So why have debates?