About that so-called "debate" last night.

I was IM'ing a friend last night while catching up on email and watching the debate from my hotel room.

Talk about multi-tasking. But you know what? It was a no-brainer to do those three things at once, because the most interesting, engaging, and thought-provoking parts of it were IM'ing my friend and emailing my daughter.

At the end of the debate, my IM friend asked what I thought. Told her I thought it was boring, but maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention.

Then checked Drudge and his headline was: B - O - R - I - N - G! No kidding.

Guess I wasn't paying attention precisely because it was boring.

That seems to be most people's reaction. Not a townhall meeting, not interesting.

You know, it makes me start to wonder. How can both of these guys dance around the truth the way they are? The truth is that are systems of government and commerce are coming apart at the seams and nobody seems to know when it will end or what to do about it.

Another truth: Abortion is destroying our country and so far it hasn't even been mentioned in a single debate or campaign ad, far as I can recall. Wait, that's not true: There were a few ads focusing on Obama's opposition to the "Born Alive Protection Act".

But I wonder, if we still hadn't killed 40,000,000 Americans through abortion, and if we hadn't wiped out their chance to be born, grow up, and start families of their own, would we be stronger economically?

How many great inventors, statesmen, entrepreneurs, doctors, nurses, teachers, priests, nuns, plumbers, electricians, and carpenters have been killed in the womb?

Would there be buyers for all those excess houses on the market right now?

Didn't Mother Theresa say that any country that permits abortion is planting the seeds of its own destruction?

And yet we don't talk about it. That's very scary.