Posted on 10/17/2012 2:36:13 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
President Barack Obama earned himself one thing during Tuesday night's debate on Long Island at Hofstra University...he earned himself a band-aid courtesy of Candy Crowley who handed it to him during the Libya banter between Mitt Romney and the President.
As a stunned Mitt Romney stood in complete shock that the President of the United States was once again lying live on television to the American public about what he said and didn't say in the Rose Garden the day after the 9-11-12 attacks in Libya, Crowley saved the day for Obama in a flat out interjection of pure media bias.
You could hear the scowl's coming from Conservative homes across the heartland, sea to shining sea, and in the spin room as it appeared that Mitt Romney was letting Obama get away with it.
He wasn't.
If one paid attention to what Romney said and knows how the game is played then all one needs to know is Romney by this point in the debate had seen and heard enough to know where this night was going. There would be no extended stage time post-debate. Romney knew that not only had the media stacked the audience with liberals but with people who never intended to vote for him anyway so why stick around for a photo-op with every loser from Long Island when you stand zero chance of winning New York...at all.
Romney quickly signed a few autographs and was off stage and out of sight while President Obama stood on stage signing autographs, talking to every person who asked a question, patting backs, taking pictures with every person who asked for one, waited for others to get their cell phones out to snap pictures to later post on Facebook and give a fist bump to Michelle as if they "owned this place".
Meanwhile, back in Romneyland....the former Governor knew that he held his own but was already thinking and salivating about next Monday's debate. You see, Obama is now on record with another version of the Libya story.
He said it in his own words..."The buck stops with me, I am the President...she works for me"...his words...not Mitt's. Mitt got him on record about the Rose Garden comments. Mitt got him on tape gloating and begging for a repeat of Candy Crowley's comments. All fodder for campaign commercials likely to be cut by this afternoon.
So, back to Monday. Monday. Monday.
Mitt Romney will show up as President Obama will come in off a false sugar high that will come crumbling down harder than a 4-year old who has spent the day at Chuck-E-Cheese when he realizes that he has to answer for HIS policies on Iran getting nukes, Israel, Egypt, Greece, Muslim Brotherhood, Afghanistan, China, Syria, Sudan and I am just scratching the surface.
What does Mitt Romney have to do?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT SHOW UP...SMILE...AND LOOK AT HIS WATCH.
Look at his watch because the time to vote for this election is closer than ever and he now wants the American people to vote and get this man-child out of the Big Chair in the Oval Office. A chair where adults sit...not community organizers.
Mitt Romney has ZERO to explain about anything to do with any of the above. Obama will become Ricky Ricardo before our very eyes on Monday night.
A stumbling, bumbling, hard to understand yapping double talker who is just about to find out his gig at the Copa White House Cabana has come to a close and the Mayflower truck is calling in the morning to schedule a pick up time.
It's over folks. The polls will not go back to Obama's favor. Romney maintained and that is all he needed to do in this debate. Crazy Uncle Joe did Barack no favors last week as polls have trended even further away from them since that catastrophe of a debate.
Amateur hour is over and it's closing time for the Obama's and their ilk in Hollywood and New York.
Stay thirsty my friends....
As we used to say in Little League baseball when the count went to 0-2, “Give him the dark one!”.
A good analysis. You’re dead on about the photo-op after the debate. Looking at all the turds who had asked questions coming to shake the Won’s hand as if to say “We got him, boss!” was enough to make me reach for the barf bag.
Don’t forget however, that Comrade Scheiffer is the next moderator, so I can guarantee the foreign policy debate will center around Liechtenstein and Mongolia, with maybe a 5 minute section of the Middle East. I wouldn’t count this Chicago thug out yet. While I agree that Mitt only needs to put on his previous performances again (with no chance of Obama erasing the losses of that first debate), we may see some new tricks and traps.
What we really need is more ad blitzing on our side, and putting the ground game into overdrive. Get out the vote is going to be vital.
The Romney campaign announced just before the debate tonight a $12 million dollar ad-buy in 15 states. As I stated in the article..Romney is now maintaining and waiting the clock out because he got Obama not only the first time but he got him tonight and the hysterical thing is...the media thinks it was a win (which they were going to say anyway).
Romney just needed Obama to lie about Libya and maybe one other thing in the debate and he got him to do so...and even got what was supposed to be a non-partisan moderator to falsely fact check for him mid-debate.
Monday is going to be all foreign policy and yes Scheiffer will moderate but guess what? Mitt Romney just needs to say the total opposite of what Obama says and he wins immediately. Why? Because from Libya to Syria to Egypt to Afghanistan to Sudan to immigration and China and Russia stealing from us on a daily basis and manipulating our currency...Obama did jack crap about it...and Romney is going to make sure the country knows it by just saying “My approach is totally different than yours because I won’t associate with known terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and I will stand by Israel unconditionally and will get to the bottom of what happened in Libya.
It was a setup and the GOP fell for it again. The 11th hour change was to allow Crowley to interject herself. That was a planned, premeditated Axelrod attack. Obama tells so many lies the truth is a casualty of Chicago politics. When will the GOP wise up? And when did Regis Philbin become the Party Chairman?—I thought he retired.
Sorry, but Obama’s team said in advance he’d take responsibility for Benghazi. That bit about Hillary was well rehearsed.
Also, his team has decided to force that Rose Garden lie in the way they do, with media cover. (E.g., check the NYTimes ‘fact check’ on it.
Texas early voting begins Oct 22 and we will be voting for Romney that day. I can hardly wait!
OBAMA: "Why do you keep looking at your watch?"
ROMNEY: "It's counting down to November 6 when your ass will be on its way to Hawaii."
Saw first ad in a long time in PA during playoff game on TBS last night. don’t know if it was national buy or targeted but was Obama ad. If it was targeted its first ad for presidential race I’ve seen in well over a month and reinforces PA is in Play. Will keep an eye out
I pretty much viewed this one as Romney just needed a tie going in.
The big mo had already shifted and all Mitt had to do was not flub it. He didn’t.
A foreign policy debate at this point has the potential to be nothing more than a nightmare for Obama.
“Amateur hour is over and it’s closing time for the Obama’s and their ilk in Hollywood and New York.”
Love it!
and I suppose this card will read: “Hello, I am an ILLEGAL ALIEN!
0bama is finding out that the truth hurts. Not one word out of his mouth can utter the truth and all Romney needs to do is continue to confront 0bama on his horrible record and what he has said.
THE TRUTH HURTS!
This is the most accurate characterization of Obama's ramblings I have seen .... especially the 'yapping' part.
Wait till the polling comes in post debate...if it’s anything like the focus group Frank Luntz interviewed yesterday from Nevada (all former Obama 2008 voters), Obama’s toast.
Because it signaled that 75% of the Obama voters now considering themselves independent are going to vote for Romney.
Video: Luntz focus group unloads on Obama after debate
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/17/video-luntz-focus-group-unloads-on-obama-after-debate/
He’s already Finished Off it’s just a matter of going through the motions.
“Wait till the polling comes in post debate...if it’s anything like the focus group Frank Luntz interviewed yesterday from Nevada (all former Obama 2008 voters), Obama’s toast.”
Obama is toast already, and has been for quite some time. Obama has no idea what is about to happen to him. He is the best thing that ever happened to Jimmy Carter.
The people I spoke with today didn’t even watch the debate but did watch the first one and the VP debate. So Obama lost an opportunity to impress alot of people who is burned out on it all and their impressions were Obama and Bide sucked and that’s all they wanted to see. They were watching the Yankees game.
Obama’s other problem on Monday?
Monday Night Football.
Detroit Vs Chicago
Viewership will go down even further for the final debate. Last night’s was down 8%.
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