My Tuesday column is of course my reaction to the final 2012 debate:
Where do I begin? President Obama won his second debate in a row, and this one in particular was a commanding victory in which his opponent, Mitt Romney, was reduced to a sweaty -- Nixon sweaty -- incoherent mess.
Last night, the president literally stared down Mitt Romney and accused him of being a foreign policy and military neophyte -- a know-nothing empty suit who can barely make it through a sentence without equivocating and reversing his own policies from months, weeks, days, in fact seconds earlier. [...]
For the first time in my life, I observed a Democratic leader emasculate a Republican leader on foreign policy. But it wasn't necessarily about testosterone and war-mongering. The president simply made Romney appear wholly out-of-his-depth and weak. [continued]