The Second Presidential Debate

I agree with Dr. Howard Dean. President Barack Obama won the first presidential debate this year.
If all one has to do is start lying and backtracking in order to debate, anyone can do that. Staying
calm while someone lies and lies, then calls the other debater a liar all in the same breath- now that is a feat of leadership. As soon as the President pointed out Romney's new position was "never mind"
that is when President Obama won the first debate.
This debate itself may have been a failure because as soon as a lie hits the airways, someone needs to be there to say the liar has forfeited.
On the other hand, Gov. Romney would be more difficult to pin to the truth than an honest man would be, because whatever position he claimed during that debate, he truly had held at some point
in the primaries, or in his career. Either that or he was then adopting it anew.
For him to say he'd never had a 5 trillion dollar tax plan was simply obfuscating the facts of what
he had been presenting a bit too much for anyone to consider his new offering honest.
Unlike a great many persons in the news and in polls, I hope not very much happens tonight.
I suppose the President could point out the temporal boundaries of Romney's most recent positions
if he has committed them to memory. Everybody could freak out then. They could say POTUS nailed
the guy.
Maybe then the rest of us could define "truth", and nail Mitt Romney to it as something well-defined
and deserved and expected.
I hope foreign affairs won't include the Republicans' insistence disgracing the memories and the family wishes of our leaders in Libya.  What's more, I hope no one attempts to blur all the boundaries
between embassies and consulates, and security we provide, and security host countries have to provide. Any of that could harm the newly-formed good wishes the Libyan people have for our country. Additionally, since our President is responsible for our continued good relationship with Libya now, he would be debate-handicapped as regards making public statements about possible culpabilities abroad not yet publicly discussed.