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Go Giants, Go Obama!

Today morning I was wondering which "match" bay areas people would be most interested in and what would be likely outcome they would prefer. Both "matches" are over and I like results for both of them. Normally I do not follow baseball till playoffs and unless one of the Bay Areas teams are closer to world series. After lagging by 3-1, San Francisco Giants pulled am amazing feat by winning today's last game by 9-0 and hence entering world-series against Tigers. On second "match", President Obama won today's debate hands-down. Foreign policy is Obama's strongest suit and he demonstrated and articulated his vision and clarity on his approach to this very important aspect of Presidential responsibility. He also attacked Mr Romney by calling his policies as "wrong, reckless and all over the map" (which is true if anyone hears Romney's speeches in last 18 months). Now that 3rd and final Presidential Debate is over, debate scores stand

October Surprise!

First week of October brought quite a few surprises. When week started, I thought election results would be "sealed" on Oct 3 with first Presidential debate. But given Mr Obama's lackluster debate performance, Mr. Romney got a slight opening but in the end that may not be enough (thanks God) and Mr Obama would win this election to get 2nd term. But he better practice his debating and most importantly attacking skills. I want to see Obama from 2008 who can lead from front. Hope his campaign managers learnt from first debate and would call on Mr Romney on his flip-flopping and in some cases complete lying! Then comes employment report with some good news of unemployment dipping to 7.8%. This is lowest since Obama took office. That was good news for Mr President. As usual some folks like Jack Welch started crying wolf that this number is tweaked by white house. In one tweet, Jack lost all the respect I had for him over last 20 years. He should know better that no one is st