Urban Poverty Law Center

If anybody was off line, out of country or just not paying attention you may have wondered what that sharp crack heard around the world was that started at 7pm mountain stardard time which was traced to Denver University and its auditorium where the first of three presidential debates was held. That crack was the sound of the bull whip Mitt Romney employed fueled by his superior business knowlege, his conservative principles, and a wit that allowed Mr. Romney to debate rings around a seemingly sluggish and out of sorts President Obama. Al Gore, Jr, that world renown self-taut(sic) global warming expert, blamed President Obama's sluggish debate on the mile high elevation there in Denver, noting that Mitt Romney had come in a day earlier and therefore had  time for his physiology to adjust to the rarefied air there in Denver.  This and that Romney does not smoke, but President Obama does not smoke either, does he?  At least the press is still covering for his bad c...

To my highly intelligent readership:  Jim Lehrer as host of the first presidential election debate will be blamed by all his colleagues in the Obama Cheering Print and Televison media for not keeping a closer check on that "snap" on the right of President Obama, Willard Mitt Romney.  Even Big Bird was heard grumbling about Jim's weak performance over his morning bowl of birdseedies cereal. Jim, we barely even knew thee! Mitt, as it seems, I barely even knew thee!  I have been subjected to that same powerful media filter that kept W. Bush, the real W. out of the view of his adoring public.  The filter was lifted for 90 minutes in Denver, and there was Romney, looking and sounding like Ronald Reagan, and there was President Obama sounding and looking like the impish intellectual impostor that he has been his entire life. Obama was clearly flummoxed by President-Elect Romney.  I could tell when Romney landed a blow because President Obama's ears, overly gener...

Anybody who has been watching politics since the media was captured by the communist sympathizers just after the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam knows no Republican politician since Ike Eisenhower has gotten a fair shake in the print and TV media. Nixon, demonized, Ford labeled a stupid jock, Reagan, the actor with an empty head, Bush 41, an out of touch Martha Vineyard elitist, and Bush 43, a misunderestimated numbskull. If we ignore 50 years of history, perhaps Mitt Romney will be treated fairly by the repugnant petulant press during the up coming debates. Here is how I see the debates being framed. Jim Lehrer:  "We welcome our telivision audience to the first of three Presidential debates, as you know the debate format is slanted for and seeks to reinforce the strengths of President Barack Obama, (pause for a loud cheering auditorium packed with 1.37 million SEIU members holding Obama for President signs and texting on Obama phones) and will degrade his unworthy chal...