October 3, 2012
Lots of talk about Romney winning.
I'm just scanning the web (and listening to the TV commentators). Romney certainly seemed to be trying to win, and Obama was quite mellow. Obama dished out policy points and always sounded steady, if a bit tired at times, but I think he was relying on his famous likeability, occasionally flashing his famous smile (for little reason). Romney might have gotten too passionate, but he was bubbling with policy ideas, and the message was: Give me the job, let me work for you, I can help.
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Hey Althouse, maybe Romney actually knows what he's talking about. Or would that be too radical a thought?
Really? I thought both were boring as hell, and either would've lost to Reagan or Clinton in a landslide.
Romney and Obama have minor differences and it doesn't matter which one gets elected, unless you're a political hack.
In my "ain't voting for either one of 'em" opinion, Romney came across a lot better than Obama.
Mitt hits a home run with the bases loaded. Thank God they don't allow TelePrompTers in the debate hall.
Cris Mathews..
"I don't know what he [Obama] was doing out there. He had his head down, he was enduring the debate rather than fighting it. Romney, on the other hand, came in with a campaign. He had a plan, he was going to dominate the time, he was going to be aggressive, he was going to push the moderator around, which he did effectively, he was going to relish the evening, enjoying it," Matthews said.
"Here's my question for Obama: I know he likes saying he doesn't watch cable television but maybe he should start. Maybe he should start. I don't know how he let Romney get away with the crap he throughout tonight about Social Security," Matthews complained.
Obama DESTROYED Romney.
What is the proof? Rachel Maddow. Chris Matthews. Andy Sullivan. NYT Nate Silver. NYT Charles Blow. PBS Gwen Ifill. PBS Mark Shields. CNN Wolf Blitzer. Etc. Etc.
Every-one, who is any-one, knows Obama CLEAN-BOWLED Romney.
Romney got deleted from the campaign.
I'm as partisan as can be and I thought Mitt did fine and Obama stunk up the joint.
I was in front of the TV shouting responses to Obama and he didn't hear me.
I'm not giving up, not by a long shot, but Jesus there were dozens of chances to nail Romney to the wall and he wiffed.
We saw a different Romney tonight.
Romney sounded like he took a passion potion.
The killer comment?
"You pick losers."
BAM!
Its clear the left leaning media is going to portray this as a Obama slip to set up the comeback kid angle, but Romney did a very good job especially early on.
Really? I thought both were boring as hell, and either would've lost to Reagan or Clinton in a landslide.
There is something to be said for this POV.
Romney show up to a cock fight and Obama showed up for a wake.
A.P., if the contest was to see who was the most boring, then Obama won.
By the standard measure of these things, Romney won. Hands down.
It's three rounds though. Maybe Obama's doing the rope-a-dope. Gonna uncork the lead right.
Romney appeared to be the competent executive that his campaign has been saying he is for the last year.
ROmney did not appear to be the person Barack Obama and the media has been saying he is.
So now, what exactly is the case for re-electing Obama?
Romney: Here's my homework!!
Obama: The dog ate it.
Romney got shellacking from Obama.
Obama shellacked Romney.
Less one sided than people are saying, but a win for Romney.
The Romney as vampire thing was always kind of a weak argument, and it exploded.
On Obamacare, it became obvious that the differences between the two candidates have been vastly over-exaggerated.
Romney said he wouldn't torpedo entitlements. That helped him.
I just think us partisan hacks are generally a lot more intellectually honest than you partisan hacks.
No, killer was Obama conceding defeat and asking Lehrer to move on to another question. I've never seen this before. The should use that make this a focal point of an attack ad.
My 86 year old mother...."look at his face, Obama's getting his ass kicked"
Peter: Obama Won.
BUT, EVEN IF, he did not win, the next debate will be a bigger win. The Media is behind him.
NO one, no one shellacks the POTUS and gets away with it.
We have meetings with MSNBC in the WH tomorrow.
He didn't just "win." Romney utterly destroyed Obama: 'Mitt Romney Kicks Ass in First Debate'.
What a carefully worded blogpost -- one I can assure you would've been more muscular and brimming with opinions on the candidates' performances if the blog commenters hadn't risen up in arms in 700+ posts about the racism thing.
This is what happens when you have a news industry that tosses you nothing but softballs, and the left has nobody to blame but themselves.
Romney has had to survive in an environment where one wrong answer causes the media to label you an extremist while Obama has lived in an environment where "I'm eye candy" constitutes a serious response. They had Obama practicing with John Kerry for G-d's sake.
Can Obama turn it around? Sure, they still have the "foreign policy" debate which, let's be honest, will consist of nothing but Obama say "I killed Bin Laden".
As a side note Althouse, I spent yesterday afternoon in Madison. What a great day it was!
And..c'mon Ann. If you're really undecided, why wouldn't this debate swing you?
If Romney had performed like Obama did I'd say it was all over for Romney. Being the incumbent Obama's still in there.
"Ray, Ray, you didn't knock me out, Ray!"
Via Hot Air, Andrew Sullivan's take:
Look: you know how much I love the guy, and you know how much of a high information viewer I am, and I can see the logic of some of Obama’s meandering, weak, professorial arguments. But this was a disaster for the president for the key people he needs to reach, and his effete, wonkish lectures may have jolted a lot of independents into giving Romney a second look…
The person with authority on that stage was Romney – offered it by one of the lamest moderators ever, and seized with relish. This was Romney the salesman. And my gut tells me he sold a few voters on a change tonight. It’s beyond depressing. But it’s true.
The talking points now will focus on Romney's lack of "specifics" and "details."
(See, for example, Axelrod in the post-debate spin room. Brought to us by the folks that crafted the "Hope, Change"-specific presidency.
Lem wrote:
Romney sounded like he took a passion potion.
I didn't see passionate Romney, so much as competent Romney. The business par excellence, without the ogrey Mr Burns fangs sinking into the necks of non-rich Americans (as MSNBC would have it).
That should be "Saying"
AP, Bless your heart.
It was good to hear some discussion of the deficits and national debt that are hanging over our heads.
It still seems like we are looking at the US economy and going through the five stages of grief. I think that one of the reasons that conservatives and liberals seem to be talking past each other about the economy is that they are not at the same stage. Liberals are in denial, talking about free contraception, war on women, Mitt Romney’s dog, racial dog whistles, fiscal cliff, what fiscal cliff? Conservatives, who also spent much time in denial, have sped through anger (tea party, maybe) to bargaining. They are bargaining that a Romney/Ryan administration will slow down the cliff dive, so that the landing won’t be fatal.
To some extent that is what tonight's debate felt like. I thought it was good to see a debate about economic issues.
Oh, the last two stages - depression and acceptance.
Romney won - hands down - no question about it.
My crazy liberal roommate is, still, trying to call it a draw.
Nasty reality check coming for him tomorrow,...
It's pretty obvious Obama hasn't been challenged much during his presidency. He should have a smart conservative or two on his campaign staff to challenge him. It's also obvious that Obama doesn't understand small businesses.
How about a poll professor?
I can't vote for anyone who says "grow the economy." Of course I can't vote for anyone who talks about god either.
Gary Johnson won!
So the headline I'm going with is "Obama can take a punch".
Irene wrote:
Brought to us by the folks that crafted the "Hope, Change"-specific presidency.
Speaking of which...anyone think that "Forward" is a poor political slogan this time around?
It's almost as if they blew their ideological sloganmaking wad in 2008.
Romney definitely won. He looked rested, was calm, smart, respectful. I thought it was a good debate.
rcocean is correct. They both are poor debaters compared with Gipper/Bubba.
Jim Lerhrer was neutral and in the background.
Obama better pick it up. He looked sloppy from letting the MSM beat up Mitt for him. Toe to toe, he was on his heels much of the time due to lack of opposition preparation
When Romney would grin/stare at Ozero, he Mittens definitely came across as creepy cult guy. Other than that, he beat all expectations and rocked the Prez.
John Kerry lost the debate.
I honestly can't figure out what Obama is up to. He seems not to want to win. The media wants him to win more than he does himself. It's like he just gave up.
On the bright side for Obama, he doesn't have a dirty clock anymore.
Romney won this debate, he was annoyingly over exuberant though, as if he couldn't talk fast enough.
Rcocean has a point.
Romney seemed to be trying to make Obama look bad on purpose.
If he's not careful, he'll lose the flibbertigibbet vote.
Romney must have won because David Axelrod is on CNN saying that it was just to be expected and won't have any effect.
WE will treat Romney as an INCUMBENT.
We will treat POTUS as a challenger.
ThUS, we will want specifics from Romney. The press will NOT ask specifics from us.
WE win. Romney lost.
LOL..
Irene is killing me.
On the bright side for Obama, he doesn't have a dirty clock anymore
Someone help me with the reference.
vbspurs said
..anyone think that "Forward" is a poor political slogan this time around?
I do. It's too close to "Forewarned." Which is way too honest for a political slogan.
"cleaned his clock"
As nice as this was, there's 3 more debates (granted one of them is between Ryan and Biden); Obama can't be as bad in the remaining tow as he was here.
doy
Obama repeated the lie that he inherited a $trillion deficit.
Obama claimed his plan was like that of Bill Clinton. When did Bill Clinton have $trillion deficits?
Phx, because he got it cleaned!
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Bamster hasn't been challenged much during his life.
I Won.
Not tonight.
Victoria, the campaign that shouts "Forward!" (Wisconsin history aside) is the one that wants the voter to overlook the last four years as if it were a mirage.
Phx,
The expression when someone wins a contest convincingly is to say "he cleaned the other guy's clock.
Freeman you too clevah for me!
AP, I realize you are tryign to be funny, but I did check out MSNBC. So much for spin. Even they are saying Obama did very poorly.
Best spin they can do is that Obama didn't think he should have to defend his policies to a guy like Romney. (true...they really said that).
I'm as slow as Obama
Mrs. Obama did look lovely. Blue-state blue.
Romney was the clear winner: he was informed, articulate, organized, and passionate. He also was disciplined enough to stay on-message about jobs. Obama seemed disorganized and reactionary, even with all the assists from Lehrer.
"Give me the job, let me work for you, I can help."
Add some details, and that's the perfect way to get a job. To lock it up, bring an example of what you would do. An ad, a spreadsheet, a product design idea, something real. Everybody brings words and promises.
Romney's examples are on his website. General and incomplete, but better than just "Hope and Change", and that won.
Yes, but "We'll always have Madison"
CNN did a poll on the debate winner and it weas a landslide:
Romney 67%
Obama 25%
Also the MSNBC loons are desperately spinning for Obozo.
Chip S wrote:
I do. It's too close to "Forewarned." Which is way too honest for a political slogan.
Hee!
A sort of Kinsley gaffe, how ever unintended and death-wishy as "Forwar(ne)d" is.
Romney seemed to be trying to make Obama look bad on purpose.
That was my take... by speeding away and making Obama keep up, Romney made Obama stammer a few times.
At the end Obama was exhausted and slipped into redistribution language.. the stuff he really believes in..
He used the words fare share.
"John Kerry lost the debate " which makes him a racist I guess.
What happened to Obama is what happens when you have been cocooned by the press. In a debate your talking points are questioned, not applauded.
which makes him a racist I guess.
I only want to hear this meme a million more times.
Romney seemed to be trying to make Obama look bad on purpose.
If he's not careful, he'll lose the flibbertigibbet vote.
LOL. On a totally unrelated note, "Romney certainly seemed to be trying to win"... as opposed to, what, trying to lose? The nerve of him.
Lindsey....I did that 4 years ago with McCain. I was screaming at my TV saying "hey McCain, say this....". John McCain (god bless his sole) is a lovable moderate. Met him in person once was was very impressed.
But he was a wimpy debator who didn't get it. Even his rehearsed lines were lame.
I only want to hear this meme a million more times.
Then stick around. Think of it as a boomerang.
Christopher,
Obama can't be as bad in the remaining tow as he was here.
I agree - he kinda came alive during the final three minute section - but I think he'll flub them, too:
He's exposed - no teleprompter, no crowd to play off of, no record of accomplishment.
This is probably the beginning of the end - finally.
What happened to Obama is what happens when you have been cocooned by the press. In a debate your talking points are questioned, not applauded.
Let's not forget that Obama is very rarely questioned at length by the White House Press Corps. Even if you think media are in the tank for him (which they are), he is not allowed anywhere close for any sustained amount of time to people who would make him look flailing and defensive. Never mind getting any kind of really hard-hitting question these 4 years.
(The few times he's stood up there, he's either exhibited tremendous irritation at the questions the Press Corps are lobbing at him, as well as that infinitely bizarre time when he handed the whole enchilada over to President Clinton...!)
Cheers,
Victoria
Best quote of the night.
MATT WELCH: “That wasn’t a debate so much as Mitt Romney just took Obama for a cross country drive strapped to the roof of his car.”
vbspurs said...
The few times he's stood up there, he's either exhibited tremendous irritation at the questions the Press Corps are lobbing at him, as well as that infinitely bizarre time when he handed the whole enchilada over to President Clinton...
Excellent point.
Do you suppose it might happen during the next debate?
He's exposed - no teleprompter, no crowd to play off of, no record of accomplishment.
Obama was like Ali vrs Larry Holmes.
It's definitely hard to sell yourself while standing in front of the economic wreckage. But Obama does still have some decent cards.
Not the least of which is Romney's supporters, such as Rush, or Hannity or whoever is going drop a dead bird in Romney's punch bowl next week.
It's gonna stay close for a while.
Althouse has all the objectivity of MSNBC nowadays.
Rush is gonna have a field day tomorrow, I might have to listen.
--It's definitely hard to sell yourself while standing in front of the economic wreckage. But Obama does still have some decent cards.--
Barry chose that wreckage.
Other things were more important.
Don't think Ali v. Holmes.
Think Rumble in the Jungle.
Obama should have given Finnet the finger. That would have done it.
Via Drudge:
DENVER, Colo. -- Obama spokesperson Stephanie Cutter took a swipe at moderator Jim Lehrer's largely passive debate performance tonight, saying the PBS anchor had allowed Mitt Romney to act as the moderator.
"I sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney," Cutter told CNN shortly after the debate, though she told POLITICO that Lehrer did his job as moderator and that her comments were strictly about Romney...
Ali was on the ropes taking a godawful pounding from Foreman's big, big punches. Round after round. Finally he gets him in a clinch and says in Foreman's ear "Is that all you got George, is that all you got?"
Foreman told the story years later. He said "And I thought to myself, as a matter of fact, that is all I've got."
Via Drudge:
Obama appoints wife of Univision owner to UN diplomatic post
F&F - foreign policy.
Finnet??? Romney. Damn word complete feature.
Of course Romney crushed him. Have you watched MSNBC? I tuned in for 5 minutes and it was like a wake. You know Obama lost when even Ed Schultz is a sad panda.
If it were close the liberal commentators would have called it a draw or a victory.
Seeing Red....you have lost an election if your only hope is that people are lying to the pollsters (I'm looking at you, Republicans). But you have lost the debate if you can only attack the moderator for not being enough of a hardass.
Stephanie Cutter has to go. How does she have such a high position in Obama's campaign. Romney owned Lehrer and Obama. Neither of them is used to being challenged.
I think at this point Mitt seems more energized, he seems to want it more. Obama is going through the motions. I don't think he'd completely mind being an ex-president.
Romney would have had a more challenging debate if Clint Eastwood had brought that chair to the stage in Denver.
TCE,
You forgot to mention that he also was caught to be pretty cavalier about truth, i.e. Romney's plans (at the very beginning).
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Obama produced more of the same: slogans, denial, lies, etc. Romney, verbose as he was, made an impression that he actually knows what he is talking about, while Obama had permanently vacant face while rehashing his old sound bites.
I also got an impression that Obama did not make an effort. I wonder, if he is deliberately reducing the plank to make Romney to relax, so he can get him in the last debate, that matters more.
Shiloh & GM are MIA?
America's Politico, did you actually see these people, Maddow, Matthews, Ed Shultz and the whole MSNBC crew declared Mitt the winner. If it had been close at all they would have claimed Obama the winner.
On CNN the focus group was 16-5 for Mitt.
The biggest loser? Obama's coddling suck-up media.
Obama was the empty chair tonight. Just as Clint said he would be.
I also got an impression that Obama did not make an effort. I wonder, if he is deliberately reducing the plank to make Romney to relax, so he can get him in the last debate, that matters more.
I don't know if that's true but I like how you think. Seems like GOP has a tendency to get outflanked these years. They spook easy or something.
But Romney's definitely not a pushover.
I thought Obama didn't want to do the homework required for this debate?
"MATT WELCH: “That wasn’t a debate so much as Mitt Romney just took Obama for a cross country drive strapped to the roof of his car.”"
That might be the hardest I have ever laughed on this blog.
IF Romney wins the next debate, will debate #3 even matter?
The media has been telling us that Mitt is not presidential and has a failing campaign etc...
But then when we actually see Mitt, the whole last several months of messaging from Obama and the media all seem like big lies.
Remember - Obama is just "eye candy".
Bamster's had 4 years to prepare for this.
If the left want's to blame someone, blame the press. You can't really blame Obama for taking a free ride. It's not his job to challenge his own bullshit.
"MATT WELCH: “That wasn’t a debate so much as Mitt Romney just took Obama for a cross country drive strapped to the roof of his car.”"
At least Obama didn't eat Mitt for supper.
At least Obama didn't eat Mitt for supper.
You guys always ruin a good thing by overdoing it.
That is a point that us right wingers have been making for a while. That Republicans are better debators, because we constantly have to defend our positions. While often Democrats live in an echo chamber.
AA...how often do UW history, Poly Sci, sociology professors have intense political debates with conservative in their faculty lounges?
67 to 25 on CNN thought Romney won.
iowahawk tweeted: Poor guy. He couldn't get it up on his anniversary.
Obama flashed that big shit eating grin when he was pissed. Watch the debate again with that in mind. It's obvious.
One of his handlers told him he can't look irritated so he grinned when he was.
Hmmm. What will Peggy Noonan say now?
chuck66:
Seeing Red....you have lost an election if your only hope is that people are lying to the pollsters (I'm looking at you, Republicans). But you have lost the debate if you can only attack the moderator for not being enough of a hardass.
My thought isn't that people are lying to pollsters, but that the polls are looking at turnout numbers incorrectly. Does anyone seriously think turnout will be D+7 on election day? Enthusiasm on the D side is the lowest I've seen in a long time. The liberals I know still think Obama will win (because of the polls, go figure), but none are super rah-rah about him. I'm guessing that half stay home on election night.
MSNBC spin: Not to worry, remember how Bush lost the debate to Kerry and Cheney pulled the campaign out in the VP debate.
Well I know Dick Cheney and Joe Biden is no Dick Cheney. Unfortunately for Biden, Mr. Ryan might be a Dick Cheney.
Eye Candy
Michael K,
Obama flashed that big shit eating grin when he was pissed. Watch the debate again with that in mind. It's obvious.
One of his handlers told him he can't look irritated so he grinned when he was.
Jesus Christ, anybody sane could tell he was looking at his wife.
Jeez,...
Next mod is a woman, Mitt can't seem to be bullying her.
Ann Oulter: "Anniversary or not, my guess is that Michelle is gonna ask to go home w/Mitt tonight."
Ouch.
Can you say "rented mule" these days?
The image of the evening. Credit to Sloanasaurus.
Nora,
TCE,
You forgot to mention that he also was caught to be pretty cavalier about truth, i.e. Romney's plans (at the very beginning).
Yeah, Romney straightened him out and then held the line. Obama just wasn't there - I wonder how that happens? Like when boxers show up and just get pounded. I guess it happens (I've seen it often enough, but never been there myself).
Obama produced more of the same: slogans, denial, lies, etc. Romney, verbose as he was, made an impression that he actually knows what he is talking about, while Obama had permanently vacant face while rehashing his old sound bites.
I think the others nailed that:
He hasn't been challenged.
There's nothing worse than an echo chamber. That's why I don't choose my friends based on whether they agree with me, but on character and whether they can make me think. I have one friend who is a total coward, but even he's valuable, because the man is committed to that stance - I know, in a time of danger, there's no way I can count on him because his only thought will be on self-preservation at all costs. Makes it easy to see it in others.
I also got an impression that Obama did not make an effort. I wonder, if he is deliberately reducing the plank to make Romney to relax, so he can get him in the last debate, that matters more.
I have no idea. I just saw a guy who's lost. He's got nothing. The little flash of life at the end said there could be something more, but I almost don't think he cares. Which isn't as odd as it seems:
I know very few black people who aren't somewhat ambivalent, no matter where they are in life - "A Dream Deferred, and all that.
Life in America can be tragic, under even the best of circumstances, and I bet that particular mullatto has probably had enough "success" for a while,...
Sloanasaurus said...
Obama was the empty chair tonight. Just as Clint said he would be.
Yes, until he recovered toward the end and started doing what he does best: lies and scare tactics. Not that it worked that well, but he succeeded in putting Romney on the defensive for a couple of moments.
What famous likeability?
Romney clearly staked out the moderate position. I was struck when the question was about regulation, Romney loved regulation. First thing he said, "we need regulation." When the question was about medicare, Romney loved medicare. First thing he said, "you're robbing medicare!"
It's like Clinton stealing all the Republican talking points. Romney totally took those arguments off the table.
We nominated a moderate Republican, and he's totally a moderate Republican. The attempt to portray Romney as a monster right-winger is ridiculous. It's always been ridiculous.
The other thing that Romney did that struck me was his use of real people, the human touch. (Reagan and Clinton). He used real people to illustrate why we need new leadership. And Obama was making the horseshit "math" arguments. Obama seemed oblivious to how actual people are hurting.
I think he's in real trouble. And the argument by the liberal press that Obama needs to "attack" more? No way. He already seemed grouchy, irritable, and annoyed. If he goes negative and mean in a debate, this is over.
I think it's already over. It's been over.
That's lickability.
The wounds he sustained tonight should be objects of sustained licking for several days.
The President inherited his debate prep from the previous administration.
Romney owned Lehrer
My favorite bit: "I love Big Bird. I even like you, Jim."
But I don't want to borrow money from China to pay for you. Ouch!
Maybe Obama just isn’t a good debater. He wasn’t very good in the Democratic primary debates back in 2008; it was Iowa that put him in the winner’s seat then. And in the debates with McCain, all he had to do was look presidential because everyone had already decided that McCain was an excitable old coot.
Sure, they still have the "foreign policy" debate which, let's be honest, will consist of nothing but Obama say "I killed Bin Laden".
Romney should do the lawyer thing and just stipulate that at the beginning. "Yes, you killed Osama, big fella. We stipulate that. Now what else? Have you slept through any ambassador-killing terrorist attacks lately?"
IF Romney wins the next debate, will debate #3 even matter?
Great first debate kid, don't get cocky!
Tweet of the night, via Instapundit:
Bob Owens
@bob_owens
Some people eat when they get depressed. I hope Michelle put Bo outside for the night. #DenverDebate
I only caught about 20 minutes of it in the car... health care, role of government and education (News flash for Lehrer: Nobody gives a shit about what these guys think about education)
I thought Obama was doing fine.
Then I get home, log on Facebook, and all my righty feeds are crowing and all the Dem/leftards are going through Elizabeth Kubler Ross's Stages of Grief.
What the hell happened?
phx: So the headline I'm going with is "Obama can take a punch".
Yeah, but...Owwww...
Jason said...
I only caught about 20 minutes of it in the car...
I thought Obama was doing fine.
Then I get home, log on Facebook, and all my righty feeds are crowing and all the Dem/leftards are going through Elizabeth Kubler Ross's Stages of Grief.
What the hell happened?
Yet another way that Obama is like Nixon.
The question I have for the Professor, because her objection to the 5 year old Politico released video still has me gobsmacked, is that the ugly in this debate was brought by Obama--in his poor performance. The ugly in the video was all created by Obama--showing it is not ugly, Obama being the sort of person who would act (as in the performance art of it)--that's ugly.
So does the debate make the Professor less likely to vote for Romney too?
I will repeat what we are feeling on another blog -- Tonight the country saw the Obama we had all seen in Primary 2008. They will prop him up but hope the voters saw what we had already seen in 2008.
vbspurs..
yeah this post very carefully worded -- that thought occurred to me too.
Foreign policy debate:
LIBYA
Romney came as an entrepreneur submitting a business plan.
Barry showed up, having ditched debate prep because he didn't like the idea of being made to do his homework.
And the Romster was no less passionate than he was in the primary debates, on the stump, or at the convention. A lot of people have allowed themselves to be snowed by the media.
mccullough said...
It's pretty obvious Obama hasn't been challenged much during his presidency.
It's pretty obvious Obama hasn't been challenged much during his life.
FIFY
i loved it when obama said romney's plans have no details -- right after he tried to pick holes in romney's health care plan by discussing very specific details.
I'm shocked that Obama, the greatest orator of all time, should have flopped so badly in the first debate: wasn't he just last week in the trenches and honing his debating skills--on the View, in combat with Whoopi and Barbara, and on the Late Show, in his slugfest with David Letterman?
This is what happens when you let John Kerry-Heinz be your sparring partner.
LIBYA.
Obama's already admitted foreign policy "bores" him. How exactly does the lazy, choom-smoking grad student expect to cram for the next debate when he's blown off the last four years?
I don't think much of these media-organized "debates," so I only watched a little.
What struck me was Obama's body language. He clearly detests Romney personally and totally rejects all of Romney's talk about competition and private this and that. His "famous smile" was displayed "for a reason," you can see it on many a professor's face when a smart-aleck student brings up incovenient facts in class!
"wasn't he just last week in the trenches and honing his debating skills--on the View, in combat with Whoopi and Barbara, and on the Late Show, in his slugfest with David Letterman?"
Killer comment. And so very true.
Sr Croix said, "think he's in real trouble. And the argument by the liberal press that Obama needs to "attack" more? No way. He already seemed grouchy, irritable, and annoyed. If he goes negative and mean in a debate, this is over.
I think it's already over. It's been over."
The next debate over foreign policy should be enlightening. If there is one. A second debate, I mean. I'm certain there won't be a third. Obama will come up with some crisis that needs his personal attention. The little man has spent his whole life avoiding hard decisions.
Obama has been painting Romney as Montgomery Burns and Ned Flanders with Burns's IQ shows up.
It's racist to say Romney won.
Obama's Note to Myself #1, made at the First Debate:
"What's with these podiums and the white boy at one of them? I thought I'd be chillin' tonight with Beyonce, at Jay-Z's crib."
The 2007 tape shows Obama can speak without a teleprompter on his own turf as a "community organizer" - as President of the Unites States, not so much.
rogers said...
I had gotten very tired of Mitt Romney going into last night. But after the debate I got the impression he has the enthusiasm and policy ideas to get us out of our collective malaise. Basically, what Ann said.
Obama's Note to Myself #2, made during the First Debate:
"All for nothing all that blood, sweat, and tears, prepping for this debate, first on The View in combat with Whoopi & Barbara, and then on The Late Show, in my slugfest with Letterman."
Obama's Note to Myself #3, made during the First Debate:
"Question for Axelrod: Do ex-presidents qualify for a free ObamaPhone?"
Obama's Note to Myself #4, Made During the First Debate:
"Review textbook for my Con Law 101 at Harvard: Can a president's application to Congress for tenure be fast-tracked?"
Obama's Note to Myself #5, Made During the First Debate:
"First thing tomorrow morning: Grant myself Waiver from participating in any more debates."
Obama's Note to Myself #6, Made at the Podium During First Debate:
"Call back Whoopi; tell her I may be available to take that full-time gig on The View after all."
Interesting that we allow the media to influence our decisions on such weighty a matter as this. Please remember, you are seeing everything about these candidates through the lens of the media.
Obama's Note to Myself #7, Made at the Podium During the First Debate:
"Check with Pelosi and Reid: Can they push through an emergency stimulus package for my mojo?"
Obama's Note to Myself #8, Made at the Podium During the First Debate:
"Question for Stella: 'Remind me: How did you finally get your groove back?'."
Obama's Notes to Myself #9, Made at the Podium During the First Debate.
"I'll bet the only reason they made me participate in this debate is because I'm black."
Obama's Notes to Myself #10, Made at the Podium at the First Debate.
"Maybe now's the perfect moment for me to lower those ocean levels."
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