Obama/Romney Debate

First of all, as background, I want to say that I have supported Obama since the 2008 election where he and the Democratic Party ran against the GOP and their candidate John McCain and won a quite decisive victory. Although the "change" that Obama promised so fervently during the 2008 pre-election campaign has not become the exact goal that we as Americans have witnessed for the past four years, I realize that said mission could not have possibly been completed. There are too many social, environmental, governmental, political, economical factors that have made Obama's mission of change less of the mission of change that he wanted to implement in this first place. I realize this because this motif of incomplete promises has permeated throughout American politics since our conception as a nation when the Constitution was written.

The Founding Fathers of our country, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison to name a few, promised us a country in which everyone was entitled to three ultimate goals-- "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," as stated in the Declaration of Independence, said to be authored majorly by Thomas Jefferson.

To state the obvious, not everyone in the U.S. has reached these goals, simply based on the fact that someone has to lose in order for another to win.

This brings me to focus attention on the current election race between Obama and Romney. I realized that during the debate, Obama and Romney both used and reused phrases such as, to paraphrase "I believe in the middle class," "I believe in the small businesses that drive us forward," "tax cuts for the middle class," "the American dream" and "protecting the nation". Of course, the two candidates use  did not used these exact words when debating, but I think since most Americans are not informed to the extent to actually be able to form opinions based from the facts that Obama and Romney provide to oppose each other and strengthen their reputations, the debate really doesn't matter. But also, I realized that the sad truth is that it is only up to us informed individuals, us as in we informed individuals, to make the real decisions in the direction of our country.