From a European standpoint...take it for what it's worth.

I do believe Romney 'won' the debate, he was more to the point, concise, he had his stuff together.

That being said, in my opinion he offered short-term solutions, whereas Obama seemed to be more concerned about the future of your nation...not just four years from now, but in the long run. Change is inevitable and often painful, but I think it's clear to everyone on here that it's coming.

Anyway I'm kinda buzzed and probably full of shit, but one thing I do know is, that in four years or eight we'll probably all be fighting about this again...because some things never change.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?