Debate: Would Mitt Romney be a better president than Barrack Obama.
Side: No

Foreign Policy: During the Bush administration our popularity around the world hit an all time low, no time in history has so much of the world rooted against us, and this was a direct result of 1. "cowboy diplomacy" which basically meant we do whatever we want and to hell with everyone else. 2. simply our President was an idiot, and while this is funny to some, most Westernized nations see this as a serious character flaw, not his character, ours for electing him.While Romney seems much brighter than Bush Jr. there's no reason to believe he would not have continued the "cowboy diplomacy" that has crippled our world influence.In comparison, just in the few months since Obama has been President, and Clinton Secretary of State, our popularity has risen dramatically.This is a direct result of actually talking and listening to other nations, friends and enemies alike. This has been the foreign policy theory of every great President that we have ever had. Yet of course conservatives call it "apologizing" and get all bent out of shape. The fact is though, American stock is rising, and in the long run that means less hatred for America, which means less terrorism, and more international help with the necessary wars and other crisises in the future.Economy:I'm constantly amazed at humans' capacity to rewrite history, often before it is even written, to ignore the real problems, while clinging and agonizing over side-shows and talking points and terms like socialism or communism.The indisputable facts are that, all of these economic crisises; banks, housing, cost of health care, wage discrpencies, rapant corruption on wall street, etc,all, all of them are a direct result of a lack of oversightNow, say what you will about what the solution to this is, whether Obama is taking the right path, etc.Argue that until you're blue in the face and as long as you have an answer that isn't exactly what we did to get into the mess - then you're part of the conversation.Unfortunately many Republicans, and Romney can count himself as part of it, have opted to 1. say there's nothing wrong and it will correct itself, 2. pay lip service to change, when really they only want to keep the status quo, and keep their contributors and personal business interests happy, 3. pretend the last 8 years didn't happen and preach less oversight like the crazy guy on the corner talking about the sky falling.Well some don't like Obama's plan, but I can tell you it's better than nothing, and yeah, nothing is exactly what Romney would be doing at this point.Environment:That pollution is bad is an inescapable fact. If you want to believe there's no such thing as global warming, or in the easter bunny, or that the earth is flat, fine whatever. But on some basic level even crazy people can believe that it would be nice to have less pollution right?Clean energy, even if global warming really is a myth, would at the least cut down on pollution, create jobs here in the US that cannot be exported, keep the trillions we send overseas every single year to countries like Saudi Arabia right here in the US.There are only 2 kinds of people against clean energy, the ignorant, and people who have a bunch of stock in oil and don't give a rat's ass.Unfortunately Romney definitely falls in one of those two groups, while Obama most certainly does not.Social:Obama has recently replaced one Liberal leaning justice with another Liberal leaning justice.Romney would have nominated an anti-abortion, far right judge. This may or may not have over time allowed religion to become an integral part of our government (even more so) which means less science and less acceptance of all people and cultures.It also would have given anti-abortion proponents another shot at making it illegal, which history has shown over and over and over and over and over... means more young mothers dying in dirty basements because of unsanitary abortion procedures performed by people who may are may not have a medical degree, and the exact same number of abortions being performed every yearWhile you have Faux and Rush and Savage and whoever else screaming bloody murder at things like the firemen issue with Sotomayor or the thing with the cops arresting the black professor,the fact is, the US does have race issues, that's why these small cases that actually no one should even hear about, constantly make national news. Old white people think they're not racist but really are, old minorities think the white man's out to get them whether they really are or not, and these two views collide and you get two otherwise intelligent and good people like the prof and the cop in crazy race driven situations.Meanwhile the young people of all races are looking around at these situations and saying "wtf is going on?" And they can grow up just like their parents did, or not, and we'll see.Because for 50 years probably now one has said a word about about race, and things stay pretty much the same with small problems and improvements here and there and an occassional riot to difuse all the tension until we do it all over again. Meanwhile no one says a word about it, at least no one that anyone is listening to.Now guess what, we have a black president who I think surprised the hell out of everyone by answering as a human and taking the prof's side publically. As 99.9 percent of black men would. He was being a real person and got a lot of crap for it for a couple days.And what happened? Was there a race war? No. Did Jesus come down and Rapture all the good Christians and let the devil take over? Was there plague and pestilence?Nope, there was a mature conversation. The prof and cop came together in the middle somewhere, which is where it had always really been, and people grew a little and became better people.Obama wasn't elected because of his race, or in spite of it, he was elected because he was far and away the best candidate at this time.but I will say that having a President who isn't a white male, and who wasn't born with a silver spoon, and who was from a broken home like so many people today, and who apparently is very ready to talk about race whenever it is brought up,is just about the best thing for us right now.