This is what the Etch-a-Sketch looks like tonight. Not sure where President Obama was. He let Mitt Romney lie over and over and over again and never called him out once. He never fought back and explained the $716 million cut from Medicare or that it's the exact same cut as Paul Ryan's. He even let Romney commandeer the role as advocate for the middle class. The fact checkers are having a field day with Romney's answers, but the sad thing is the American people don't care. I know it's easy to beat someone when you can say anything -- and clearly Obama underestimated Romney's willingness to change his view on a dime ("$5 trillion tax cut? What $5 trillion tax cut?") -- but it just seemed like the president wasn't even engaged in the debate. I thought John Kerry was Obama's practice partner, but based on his head down and stammering, you'd have thought he worked with Caroline Kennedy. If Romney is going to promise the American people that you can eat cake and lose weight, Obama had better put his gym clothes on.
UPDATE: Read what my pal Hank Plante has to say about this "Democratic disaster" HERE. To be clear, I don't think this debate was a game changer. I'm just pissed that the president wasn't more aggressive. I was begging for Rachel Maddow to pinch hit all night long!!!!
UPDATE: Read what my pal Hank Plante has to say about this "Democratic disaster" HERE. To be clear, I don't think this debate was a game changer. I'm just pissed that the president wasn't more aggressive. I was begging for Rachel Maddow to pinch hit all night long!!!!
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I agree with your assessment. Where, in the name of all that is right, was Obama? He seemed like he could have cared less. I am so disappointed. But I will still vote for him.
Maybe then, Romney wasn't lying. Whether he was or not, Romney ate BO's lunch. It was shocking.
This is EXACTLY right. Obama just stood there and didn't use ANY of the ammo he has. The 47%? Nowhere. The lack of facts in his campaign? Nada. It's infuriating how timid Obama was. He may have wanted to avoid looking like an angry black man, but he looked like he forgot his backbone.
I thought that Romney was quick to interrupt, and came off as a petulant child. Obama seemed cool and collected.
I'd rather win an election that a debate, which Obama will do. Also, your friend's analysis is patently wrong when it says the first debate is the most important. Examples? I remember Dukakis and Kerry winning their first debates. Kerry cleaned Bush's clock in all three and still couldn't overcome the fact that for some reason, people kinda liked Bush and kinda disliked Kerry. Not by miles, but by a couple hundred thousand votes in Ohio.
Even though Obama's performance was weak, I don't see it changing minds. How many people honestly think that a significant number of swing-state voters who were going to vote for Obama are going to switch their votes over one debate? Even if a number of undecideds comes over, Romney needs more than that. He needs to make serious inroads into Obama's voters.
Let's see what happens in the coming week after the initial "Romney is half-way likable!" buzz dies off.
Hi - Not to "PC" you but you do realize your use of retard is offensive, right?
@Matt: You did read what the tweet said, right?
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