We saved 716B in Medicare by targeting fraud and waste.

[boston bean]

We did not cut Medicare!

What a simple response, right?

How come the president couldn't say it!

Romney and I agree on Social Security! blech!

Bain, Bain, Bain!!!!!

47% 47% 47%!!!!!

If you let lies like that stand, you lose the high ground the next morning. People aren't listening! They think you are trying to recover from a bad performance.

I still think Obama will win, and I will vote for him, but geesh, what a let down. He has some work to do. This isn't a base ball game, where the bases are loaded and the runner gets walked in for the win.

[BlueStreak]

1. That may be the most disappointing part of the debate

Romney cam off with that lie about 5 times and Obama never really countered it. He could have said

"Now wait just a minute. You keep talking about the $716 billion coming out of Medicare. You know perfectly well -- or at least your SHOULD know -- that most of that is from over-payments to insurance companies -- initial subsidies that were only there to help get Medicare Advantage started and were never supposed to be permanent. None of that affects medicare recipients in any way. And when you talk about putting that money back 'into Medicare', what you are saying is that you want to go back to overpaying the insurance companies. Why would anybody want to do that? What kind of business sense does that make?"