Obama and Romney at the October 3, 2012 debate. (Flickr/Gwydion M Williams)

Libya

Libya has been a contested topic this election and will continue to be so as more questions arise from last Thursday's vice-presidential debate.

Chris Wallace, host of "Fox Sunday News" brought up Vice-President, Joe Biden's statement during the debate when he was asked why more security wasn't provided for the embassy at Benghazi.

"We weren't told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security again."

 David Axelrod, Senior Strategist for the Obama campaign, explained that the State department was the one who received petitions, and that the White House did not receive it and was thus, not aware of the situation. However, he was aware that as the top government official, President Obama was ultimately responsible for "everything that happened under his watch."

Read more of Neon Tommy's coverage of the Libya Embassy attacks

Wallace was unfazed by Axelrod's accceptance of Obama's responsibility and brought up the words of Stephanie Cutter, Obama's 2012 Deputy Campaign Manager which he implied sounded like an attempt to shake off responsbility rather than to accept it: "The entire reason that this [Libyan embassy attack] has become this political topic it is, is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan." 

Axelrod contended that Romney's handling of the situation and Obama's amount of culpability were two separate issues. Romney, Axelrod stated, told his supporters on the 47 percent tape that he was waiting for a national security crisis in which he could jump in.  Axelrod brought up deceased ambassador, Chris Stevens' father who went on Bloomberg News and lamented the political exploitation of the issue.

Ed Gillespie, Senior Advisor to the Romney campaign, critiqued the Obama's administration shifting position and conflicting stories saying that the current administration was trying to shift blame off themselves and onto the State department. Gillespie also told Wallace that there were more questions than answers at the moment and that the country needed "honest and accurate answers."

Romney's political leanings

Wallace brought up Obama's main attack plan of the post-debate weeks which consisted of jabs at Romney's ever-changing rhetoric. Obama, Wallace said, accused Romney of lying to make himself seem more moderate and thus, appealing to voters.

Video: Romney went from "severely conservative" to "severely kidding"

Gillespie harped on the democrats' "attack ads", implied they were false and that the president and his campaign were just frustrated because Americans had learned Romney's true stance during the debate.

Abortion

Romney's words on abortion to The Des Moines Register were brought up: "There is no legislation with regarding -- with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with, that would become part of my agenda."

Words that, according to Wallace, directly contradicted the candidates proposed legislation which included ending funding of planned parenthood, passing a law to protect unborn children and the overturnment of Roe v. Wade.

Gillespie said that Romney believed Roe v Wade was wrongly decided and because of that should be overturned. Gillespie admitted that Romney was looking to end federal funding for abortion and reversing the Mexico City policy that would "protect innocent human life."

Tax Cuts and Deductions

In the vice-presidential debate, Paul Ryan was criticized for not explaining how the 20 percent cut in tax rates would be paid through limiting deductions and instead, saying that it would be up to Congress to decide how to achieve it. An action which Wallace likened to telling the voters the "candy", but skipping the "spinach."

"Why is it all right to tell voters about the candy — hey, everybody is going to get a 20 percent tax cut — cut in their tax rates, but let's not tell them about the spinach, which is you're going to lose some deductions."

Gillespie responded that the 20 percent figure embodied a broad principle of lowering soaring tax rates while maintaining the tax amounts currently being paid by the wealthy and those by the middle-class. Gillespie said that these figures would be achieved by eliminating deductions and special interest loopholes for the wealthiest earners while protecting the home mortgage deduction and other unspecified deductions for the middle class. All of which, he claimed, were were supported by "six different studies."

See: Ryan's 6 studies

In spite of all the controversies and questions being asked, Gillespie said the Republicans were not worried about the outcome of Tuesday's debate and expected Romney to repeat his lauded performance on the last debate."I think the wind is at Governor Romney's back and we're clearly on momentum. . . whatever political tactic the president [Obama] settles on as being in his best interest for the debate, he can't change his record and can't change his policies." Axelrod was also confident and said that Obama would be “aggressive in making the case for his view of where we should go as a country.” He also said Obama would be challenging Romney on his shifting stances and proposals. Especially, how he would pay for his $5 trillion tax plan.

"So, we're going to give Governor Romney another chance on Tuesday to try and square this impossible circle."

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