Dear Mr. President ... here is some advice for that next debate

Dear Mr. President,

I have a suggestion as to what you should say at the next debate.  Here it is.  “Good evening my fellow Americas.  I hope you will excuse me if I dispense with the niceties and get right to the point.  Governor Romney and I have very different visions of what American is and what it should be in the future.  I want to fully reveal those differences for you tonight, so that you can know what your choice is on November 6th.    In the last debate I tried to do that by simply laying out my record and my vision, leaving it to Mr. Romney to do the same.  Unfortunately, he did not do that.  He chose, instead, to distance himself from his own positions and lie about mine.  I don’t know if that is because he is now abandoning positions he took during the primary season in a craven attempt to get the votes of a particular group of Republicans so that he can appeal more to independent voters, or because he simply doesn’t want you to know what he believes until it is too late.  It really doesn’t matter.  I’m not going to let him do that this time.  If I have to I will present you with my positions and his positions.  If he says that I put 90 billion into green energy, half of which went to failed companies, I will point out that 29 billion went for energy efficiency and 18 billion for fast trains and that half of them did not fail and in fact fewer have failed than anticipated in the legislation.  I will also assert that money spent to combat the very real problem of climate change is money well spent.  If Mr. Romney says that his health plan, whatever that is, includes coverage for pre-existing conditions I will point out that it doesn’t.  If he asserts that he isn’t proposing 500 trillion dollars in tax cuts, I will list off all the folks that say he is and I will point out that of course he will be able to do this and lower the deficit because he plans to eliminate all sorts of spending that is critical to the lives of folks in the middle class and really in every class.  If Mr. Romney says that I don’t give credit to folks who succeed by creating their own businesses, I will point out that I do but I also give credit to the role that all of us play in the economic success of our country.  Mr. Romney, you are on notice.  In this debate, you will have to come clean to the American people about what you want, details and all.  If you don’t do it, then I’ll do it for you.  The American people deserve the truth.  They deserve candidates who will simply spell out their beliefs and records and leave the choice to them.”  Mr. President, I beg you to say something like this and then go on the offensive.  Don’t let Governor Romney get away with lies.  Don’t wait for the next day to stand up to him.  Don’t worry about your likability or about being cast as the angry black man.  Give us enough credit to see through all of that nonsense, and make a stand.  We’ll do our job if you do yours. 

Sincerely,                                                                                   

Me