The two main fails by Obama that I heard:

He did the typical political sidestep on Benghazi. He didn’t answer the question at all. Had there been requests for additional security and where they denied by whom? If they screwed up he could have said yes, but that his record on killing terrorists was stellar.

On the more common issue of the price of gasoline, he missed an opportunity to educate, and he missed an opportunity to explain how the 14% reduction in federal land drilling permits (according to Romney) had any relevance to the simple fact that drilling and production in the USA is up higher than in 16 years, and imports are way down.

He also failed completely to explain that no amount of drilling in the USA can ever reduce the cost of oil, or gasoline, by any act of the president (Republican or Democrat) since the USA does not have the potential reserves to compensate for world demand, and because USA oil companies sell oil to the highest bidder in accordance with good old free market principles, whether the buyer is in the USA or elsewhere, and that USA drilling would not even be occurring if not for high prices that made fracking and deep wells economical; nor did he explain that that some coal mines are in trouble because they have been outbid for power by American natural gas companies that offer better prices to power companies (free market stuff), or that some produce crappy coal that causes cancer and screws up power station furnaces.

Nor did he explain that there hasn’t been a new refinery constructed in the USA in decades and that the current capacity is at limits of demand, so if a refinery is down for maintenance or whatever, the supply goes down and the price of gasoline goes up; which pays the oil company the cost of the maintenance. Get the principle? Free markets work great./

Nor did he explain that natural gas is a fantastic resources that we have. Just convert all buses and USPS to it for a start and we will save millions of barrels of Saudi oil. All we have to do is make an investment (oops).

Never mind solar and all that crap. There’s only two minutes available for the voters, so two minutes and a bit is all the education they get, that they can’t be bothered to get for themselves.///