After an entertaining first presidential debate, and a rather odd vice-presidential debate, I was interested to see how the second one would turn out. President Barack Obama definitely needed to come out and make up some ground, and he needed to be very aggressive to do so.

He did come out aggressive, going after Mitt Romney every chance he had, and did not take as many shorts as he did in the first debate. In fact, to the average viewer, I’m sure it looked like Obama “won” the debate. Most people said this because he “answered the questions,” and he had a response for everything. Now let’s look at his answers.

An issue that was a source of heated debate about was the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Libya. Obama claimed he announced it as a terrorist attack from day one. This, however, simply is not true. Romney wanted him to be on the record saying such, and told people to check the transcript. There was a reason for it. 

Here was the paragraph in question (there is no mention of terror in the speech before or after this paragraph): “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.” Yes, the president mentioned terror. But he did not call this act a terrorist attack. He simply called it “terrible act,” which we all knew it was. Yet it took 14 days for the White House to call it a terror attack, not an angry response to a protest.

Another key issue was energy and oil. The president claimed he supports the drilling of American oil, and that production has gone up under his tenure. The facts simply do not state this. As Romney said, his administration cut licenses and permits in half. The government also sued three oil companies for drilling in the North Dakota Bakken oil shale, a tremendously large oil resource. This oil shale holds anywhere from 3 to 4.3 billion gallons of oil. And lastly, the president vetoed the Keystone Pipeline, a pipeline that would run from Canada to Texas. This pipeline would have not only created jobs, but would have increased the amount of oil available in the United States. 

He also narrowly avoided answering this statement: Your Treasury Secretary is stated on the record three times as saying “it is not the administration’s job to lower gas prices.” Obama gave no answer to this statement and could not explain why gas prices had risen so much in during his four years as president.

The last one I would like to point out was the comments the president made about Romney’s holdings, and where his investments were. His main argument was that he had invested in Chinese companies. Romney clearly stated that his investments had come from a blind trust. A blind trust is a trust in which the fiduciaries, namely the trustees or those who have been given power of attorney, have full discretion over the assets, and the trust beneficiaries have no knowledge of the holdings of the trust and no right to intervene in their handling. Yes, a trust Romney had money in had invested in Chinese companies. But Romney had no control over that. And actually, his remarks about Obama’s pension were justified. The president has knowingly invested in Chinese companies.

So there are the facts. Romney has actual facts, ideas and solutions. Our current president dodges questions that liberal moderators do not make him directly answer, makes up his own facts, and accuses Romney of untrue things. Obama is making promises about what he will do, but has no answers as to why he did not accomplish them in his first four years. It is time to have a president who will get results, has had an actual job, and will run this country like a business.