Posted on 09/17/2012 6:09:34 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
President Obama is cramming for his three prime-time debates with Mitt Romney next month by practicing brief and concise answers, senior campaign strategist David Axelrod told Reuters.
A gifted orator, Obama has a tendency to give long, detailed answers that the campaign worries could come across as aloof during a televised debate. In his debate prep with sparring partner John Kerry (D-Mass.), Obama has been working on keeping his answers short after four years when he's rarely had to submit to rapid-fire questions.
“He's got to speak shorter, that's all,” Axelrod told Reuters. “He just hasn't had to do that for the last four years so that's a part of the discipline of preparing for these debates.”
Axelrod said that the president was trying to squeeze in preparation time whenever he could, on flights to west coast campaign events and at the White House in the evening.
“We don't have the same luxury that Romney does in terms of time,” he said.
Axelrod also said that Obama was familiarizing himself with Romney’s record and statements during the campaign.
“He's spent a lot of time reading material and most of it is familiarizing himself with what Governor Romney said in this campaign,” he said. “He's pretty conversant with his own record but he wasn't very conversant with Romney's.”
Romney, for his part, will seek to land rhetorical blows as Obama heads into the final stretch of the presidential election with a slight lead in the polls.
Romney’s debate partner is Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and reports said the GOP nominee began prepping earlier this month, while Democrats held their national convention in Charlotte, N.C. Romney and Portman went head-to-head during a week-long retreat at the Vermont home of former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey (R), a campaign surrogate.
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Obamanure!!!
I would not be surprised if Obama suddenly has to wear glasses, and those glasses use a new on screen display coupled with a transmitter and audio device like an ear plug.
Someone else will give obama speaking directions.
The empty suit has no on the spot speaking abilities, all he is and has been is someone else behind the curtain.
How hard can it be to “cram” when one has that little earwig with a million people researching his every reply?
incorrect. he is practicing to avoid sounding idiotic since TOTUS isn’t allowed at the debates.
“A gifted orator, Obama has a tendency to give long, detailed answers that the campaign worries could come across as aloof during a televised debate.”
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GMAFB!
MSM probably has given him “sample questions.”
Detailed, my ass.
His skill lies in stringing together long droning strings of liberal catchphrases and platitudinal fluff that, like shiny objects and yarn, bewilder and mesmerize the kittens in the press, so they don't notice he never answers the question.
Osama's answers are always "concise".Truthfulness is usually the problem with Osama's statements and claims.
LOL! Romney should quiz Obama on his own autobiography. I wonder if he's ever even read it.
Obama will have an ear mic and twenty people telling him what to do. If I were Romney, I would make sure obama does have an ear mic.
Translation: When he's off the teleprompter he goes off the reservation.
Obamanure!!!
That was my immediate reaction, also. A gifted orator is someone who can spontaneously ad lib memorable lines. Winston Churchill comes to mind.
What’s he going to do?record the answers and let the Telepromter give the results.
-— His skill lies in stringing together long droning strings of liberal catchphrases and platitudinal fluff that, like shiny objects and yarn, bewilder and mesmerize the kittens in the press, so they don’t notice he never answers the question. ——
He actually “beat” Alan Keyes in the Ill. senatorial debate. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it myself.
It put the fear of God into me then. I recognized his “gift.” Unlike the enemedia, I know where that “gift” comes from.
I believe that the first debate is October 3. Today is September 17. I never thought of “cramming” as something one did more than two weeks before the “test.”
I believe that the first debate is October 3. Today is September 17. I never thought of “cramming” as something one did more than two weeks before the “test.”
BS!
He conspires with the MSM to have ‘the script’ in advance.
The other guy gets stung with surprise after surprise.
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