Romney was calm and polished. Obama was fidgety and frequently had a petulant look on his face. Romney brought facts and statistics while Obama just wandered off-topic, almost rambling at times. It looks like four years of never being challenged by critics or the media and never having to talk to anyone other than a friendly talk-show audience or vetted media pool just bit him in the ass. Obama was unprepared and uncomfortable dealing with a one-on-one debate format and I'm thinking that it was probably a good thing that he skipped all of those meetings with foreign dignitaries to appear on The View last week; most of those other leaders would have eaten him for lunch if last night was really a true indication of his abilities to field anything other than softball questions without a teleprompter.
Verdict: Romney took it away, and even Obama's fanbois and water-carriers are admitting as much today. My dad and I would normally have been discussing this debate over breakfast at a nearby Coney Island diner in other times, and I know that he'd have been as pleased as I was by Romney's competence and Obama's flailings.
I have several Liberal/Progressive Facebook "friends". Every day they post six or more political jabs at Romney, Republicans, the Tea Party, etc.
ReplyDeleteThis morning? Crickets.
It was apparent that Obama wasn't prepared for the debate, he looked like he didn't want to be there, would rather be golfing or schmoozing with the Hollywood elites I guess. Obama wandered around and Romney stayed on point. I was surprised that the 47% video wasn't mentioned...although I am expecting it to make an appearance on the next debate. Romney will need to be ready for Obama to come swinging coming out of the corner on the next debate. If Romney can hold his own in the beginning of the next debate, he can counter-slam Obama and keep piling on about the abysmal record that Obama has piled up.
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The people won't care. They want free stuff, so the rest is kind of not really important.
ReplyDeleteObama had a 75% reduction in effectiveness. He had to curtail his lying. Can't lie about Romney when he's standing right there ready to eat your lunch. So, no lying for Obama which is 75% of his speaking.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Chicago Jesus spent as much time prepping as he did in daily security briefings?
ReplyDeleteOverlooked in the excuses of 'too busy' to prepare is the basic that an incumbent is (or should be) immersed in the topics in depth every day of every week for the last three years. This is bread/butter know it like the back of your hand stuff...or should be if you've got an executive leadership clue.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's the problem isn't it?
Dick -- that's why the Obamessiah avoided the 47% comment.
ReplyDeleteHe cannot defend his side's twisted interpretation, yet in a debate format, he can't expect the press to help him out by creatively editing around Romney's response.
For the next debate, look for audience share amongst True Believers to either spike (if they find a way to replenish the denial that lets them think Obama is actually an intelligent speaker; they'll figure he'l literally have Romney crying by the end) or absolutely crater, if the scales finally come off the eyes.
Obama got punked, plain and simple. Romney was the one who looked Presidential.
ReplyDeleteI've gotta watch the next one!
ReplyDeleteThe best hour and a half of teewee I've seen this year.
ReplyDelete+1 what Dick said. Kinda hard to lie with your opponent is right there calling you out on it.
ReplyDeleteAs you know I am a tree hugging liberal and even I thought Obama's performance was absolutely abysmal.
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