Obama's Bad Week, and a Proposal About Hating

Fri. Oct. 5, 2012:

Gentle open-minded readers:  By any measure, the Obama campaign had a terrible week.
The debate on Wed. Oct. 2 was a golden opportunity to deliver a knockout blow to Romney/Ryan, but Obama blew it bigtime.

Now, Obama is the one in big trouble.  If he fails to persuade the next 2 debate audiences that he is not
"arrogant," "lazy," "unprepared," "not wanting to be there," he will make BitesfromEdwin's
predictions from last spring prescient -- and he will lose this election after all.

In doing so, he will also have snatched Defeat from the jaws of Victory.

By almost any measure -- even conservative measurers like Peggy Noonan,
William Kristol, et alia -- Romney represents huge secrecy & uncertainty for U.S. voters.
What WILL he do about the DETAILS of deficit/debt, tax loopholes,  campaign finance reform, climate change, the Affordable Care Act, assault-rifle clips, Dodd-Frank banking reform laws, immigration laws, "standing up to China," "stopping Iran from building its own nuclear weapons," etc., etc.?
His reversals, and re-reversals, are so bewildering, that the uninformed voters can almost be forgiven for deciding, Oh the hell with it, he's handsome, he's a change from Obama, I'll vote for him!

Romney's deliberate secrecy surrounding these crucial policy questions -- not to mention the secrecy of offshore investment shelters, tax returns, Mormon influence [itself a faith centered on secret temple rituals] -- may be a serious concern.  Ann says No, he's a good man who wants to serve America,
but are we wise to trust the convictions of a woman whose wealth puts her so far away from the lives of people so completely different from her?

Is Mitt Romney -- that great debater who humiliated President Obama on Oct. 2, 2012 -- a genuine
MENACE for the U.S.A.?

Or is Obama the menace, seeming to prove himself as feckless & ineffectual as the most extreme conservatives have been insisting since before Jan. 20, 2009?

If you are not scared yet, maybe you should be.
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And here's a related proposal:

What if we could somehow separate all policy proposals from the inevitably hateable politicians who push them?

Is it possible for us to enable Obama haters -- who benefit from "his" food stamps, "his" welfare checks, "his" government programs -- to separate the policies which actually help their lives, from the personal figure of Barack Hussein Obama, the arrogant, anti-jobs, un-American Muslim Socialist that otherwise-decent folks have murderously learned to despise?

Is it possible for us to enable Romney haters -- who have convinced themselves of the "secretive
MENACE" caricature [see above] of Mitt Romney -- to vote up or down on "his" policies without them being "his" at all, but just "policies" attached to a billboard or robot rather than to a handsome Mormon with a rich wife driving 4 cadillacs and riding car elevators in posh southern California?

Any suggestions, for practical implementations of this "Replace Reality-Show Human Candidates with Billboards" campaign to save the USA from its politically chaotic 2012 self?

Notice how ad hominem [like, "personal"] these criticisms are.
Then think back on Bill Clinton's DNC speech about GOP folks "hating" Obama & "us Democrats."
This is killing us as a country, ruining our ability to make sensible policy.