Presidential Debate #2

In last night's debate, it didn't take long for the President Obama to show that this debate would be different from the first debate, but it didn't take Mitt Romney even one question to keep up his strategy from the first debate: Move to the center if not out and out lie about what you've been advocating for the last year.
The very first question was about jobs and education, and after backing the Ryan budget which slashes the Department of Education and eliminates Pell Grants for the last year, Romney said that he liked Pell Grants. But when he talked about his 5 point plan for new jobs, President Obama retorted that in fact, Romney had only 1 point: His 20% tax cut. And for the next 90 minutes or so, the president came back and pointed out each flip-flop and showed every flaw in Romney's thinking. Whether it was The Lily Ledbetter Bill or House bills that would allow employers to opt out insurance plans that would include birth control pills or the Attack in Libya, when Mitt made a mistake or misstated things, President Obama not only pointed it out, he pounced and made Romney try to defend his statement, which he couldn't do. And whether it was Mitt not pointing out the differences in the 1983 and the 2008 recessions (The '83 was primarily caused an oil price raise and squeeze, while the '08 near-depression was caused by a world-wide financial collapse), or his   flip-flop on The Dream Act to allow illegals that are students to get green cards when they graduate (He has stated he'd veto the bill if President many times in the past), or lying about his backing of the Arizona Papers Bill, it seemed that Romney could never get a consistent fact correct. And all the while the president was glad to point out the fallacies in what Mitt was saying.
But as bad as Tuesday night's debate was for Romney, there was at least one shining light that he could hang his hat on: Although his momentum has been blunted, he's still in the race this morning, and if the president had been this way in the first debate, there'd be no doubt who'd be the president for the next 4 years, and his name wouldn't be Romney.