Posted on 10/05/2012 11:25:23 PM PDT by John Semmens
Going into this week's first presidential debate Democrats were confident that the most brilliant man to ever hold the office would easily trounce his challenger. However, 67% of voters who saw the debate judged Romney to have won. Only 25% saw Obama as the winner.
Obama campaign strategist, David Axelrod blamed debate moderator Jim Lehrer for allowing Romney too much leeway. Time after time the President was left to fend for himself against repeated attacks on his policies. Lehrer failed to come to the President's aid despite numerous opportunities to do so.
Axelrod expressed the hope that our other friends in the media will put forth a greater effort outside the context of the stilted debate format to do the job we expect them to do. Our message that Governor Romney is a greedy, lying, cheating bastard that has been working so well in our ads needs the supporting confirmation of these widely respected arbiters of truth.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Chair Democratic National Committee, concurred with Axelrod's take, saying that review of the debate transcript clearly shows an inappropriate handling of the event by the moderator. First, the actual amount of time each was allowed to speak was unacceptably allocated. Romney got almost as much time as the President did even though the President is a much more important figure in our government than a former one-term governor of a single state.
Second, Romney was allowed to repeatedly contradict the President, she observed. This disrespect went unchallenged by the moderator. Even worse, Lehrer's interruption of the President's closing statement on the pretext that he exceeded the allotted time limit was a shamefully arrogant affront to our nation's ruler.
Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Obama complained that the whole debate thing unfairly exploits the President's weaknesses. The President has said numerous times that prepping for these kinds of events is boring. Having to bone up of the issues and confront a disagreeable adversary is just not his thing.
Cutter maintained that debates aren't a good measure of a person's abilities to perform in office. Look, a president doesn't need to be able to think on his feet. He can hire advisers to handle the technical details and speechwriters to craft the words he uses to communicate with the American people, she pointed out. An inability to rebut an argument against his policies in a public forum is not a crucial skill.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews faulted Lehrer for not being aggressive enough. There were opportunities for him to intervene on behalf of the President that he missed. Matthews speculated that Lehrer may have put too much emphasis on maintaining the appearance of neutrality, and wondered whether a man of his advanced age should be entrusted with such a weighty task in the future when abler men like myself are available.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news posts you can find them at...
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/120160-2012-10-05-semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-october-7-2012.htm
Cutter maintained that debates aren’t a good measure of a person’s abilities to perform in office. Look, a president doesn’t need to be able to think on his feet. He can hire advisers to handle the technical details and speechwriters to craft the words he uses to communicate with the American people, she pointed out. An inability to rebut an argument against his policies in a public forum is not a crucial skill.
And yet if Romney would have floundered the left would have argued the complete opposite.
It’s really funny that Barry mentioned it was their anniversary - since it’s not till the 18th of October
Literally.
That was a good analogy. I can’t wait either ;-)
They probably are really thinking that way.
Great post!
It’s because debates are “racist.”/sarc
What about the altitude. That must have been it. Hee Hee.
cheers
Another photo that captures Obama’s essence.
All Jim Lehrer’s fault!
Thanks again, John, for the ping.
I believe President elect Romney will do two full terms as POTUS.
Obama will run off to Kenya do do “humanitarian work”.
The wookie will mostly take off for Hawaii by herself. Yes they will separate, Obama won’t need his cover wife anymore.
Can’t get much more vulgar than that statement unless it is extended to the ‘Chicago Boys Club’.
Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Obama complained that the whole debate thing unfairly exploits the President's weaknesses. The President has said numerous times that prepping for these kinds of events is boring. Having to bone up of the issues and confront a disagreeable adversary is just not his thing.
Cutter maintained that debates aren't a good measure of a person's abilities to perform in office. Look, a president doesn't need to be able to think on his feet. He can hire advisers to handle the technical details and speechwriters to craft the words he uses to communicate with the American people, she pointed out. An inability to rebut an argument against his policies in a public forum is not a crucial skill.
I think I can do satire too. It would sound more like:
“Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Obama was asked today at a press conference about the president's poor performance debating Romney last night. She responded that the president was not prepared to respond to such bald faced lies. Continuing she said that the president was in shock over Romney's brazenness and could not think of an appropriate way to respond that would maintain the dignity of the office he holds.
She finished by saying that the moderator was sleeping on the job and he refused to interrupt candidate Romney and question him when his lies were beyond decency, and so the president has decided to let Smokin Joe Biden take his place in the remaining debates.”
Lese majesty.
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