Posted on 10/05/2012 12:14:30 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
To be blunt, Mitt Romney cleaned President Obama’s clock in the presidential debate Wednesday night. It was such a lopsided victory that 67 percent of debate watchers questioned in a CNN poll gave it to the Republican challenger. But it gets worse for the incumbent Democrat. “No presidential candidate has topped 60% in that question since it was first asked in 1984,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. Yet as bad as the president was, the freak-out by leftists and their media enablers was the stuff of legend. More subtly, the media establishment is busy softening Obama’s failure via absurd excuses and anemic acknowledgement of Romney’s victory, studiously avoiding utterance of terms like “defeat” or “loss.”.....
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......Top Obama campaign strategist, David Axelrod [i]n a conference call with reporters...urged them to start making the points the president himself failed to make. “All of you who travel on the road with Governor Romney know that he just a few weeks ago stood up and said we didn’t need any more teachers. Last night he couldn’t be more enthusiastic about teachers and more teachers.
And so today, as the day after, I think the question for you [the media], for the American people is really one of character, and whether or not a candidacy that’s so fundamentally rooted in hiding the truth and the facts from the American people and deception, is the basis of trust on which you assign the presidency to a person,” he said. He continued:
>>>"So that is what we are going to focus on moving forward. We’re going to hold Governor Romney accountable for the things that he said last night and we’re going to make him justify those claims – as I hope you will make him justify those claims."<<<
These are breath-taking statements from a man whose own candidate has made an unrelenting effort to keep substantial portions of his past completely off-limits from public scrutiny — even as the ever-doting media were more than willing to play along. Furthermore, if Axelrod wishes the media to hold a candidate accountable to the truth, perhaps they should begin by holding Barack Obama accountable for the ever-evolving story surrounding the murders of four Americans in Benghazi or the administration’s numerous investments in failing green companies owned by top Democrat campaign donors or the top-secret security leaks surrounding the Bin Laden execution, or the invocation of executive privilege in the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal — just for starters.
Nonetheless, mainstream media were happy to answer Axelrod’s entreaties. Obama’s Pravda, The New York Times predictably rose to the occasion. ....
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....what scares the leftist media the most, what has driven them into paroxysms of rage and excuse-making, is not the feeble performance of the president in a single debate. It is the nerve-rattling possibility that Obama did not have a bad night. It is the possibility that the real Obama, when stripped of his media filter and teleprompter, is always as small, unprepared, self-conscious, and as lacking in substance as he seemed Wednesday night. And if the president himself is a fraud, despite every media effort to anoint him as a brilliant demigod, then they are equally culpably for maintaining that facade — not only during Obama’s time in the Oval Office, but for most of his political career.
In short, being in-the-tank lapdogs for their Messiah has suddenly acquired a terrifying aspect for the leftist media — one that could get a lot more terrifying in the days leading up to the next debates, and onward to the election. Most people know that an animal is most dangerous when it is wounded. The president and his sycophants were wounded Wednesday night. What they all do going forward to put this president across the finish line in November could be unprecedented in its nastiness as a result.
Well Hitler, it all depends on what the meaning of "teachers" is.
No, we don't need any partisan-hack union-thug RATagandists filling OUR teaching positions.
Yes, we need every one of them replaced yesterday with people who are experts in any given field, and who can successfully educate OUR children in their various areas of expertise.
You mean like (heh heh) LIGHTNING?
Obama says “that was not the real Mitt Romney”
But that was the Real Barrack Obama — no telemprompter
no questions given only by the white house only.
Obama says
That was not the Real Mitt Romney
Oh but
That was the Real Obama
— No teleprompter. No answering only questions given
to them by the White House.
I agree with your assessment. I think he is the main character of, and about to live out the ending to, The Man Who Would Be King.
Someone else compared his rise and fall to that book and I agree with them. I think the “is he the beast” question has been answered.
But I also think I could be premature, but it is very unlikely.
I suppose we may all find out soon enough, if he miraculously recovers from this head wound.
The big debate fail demonstrated that he can't make it across the finish line on sheer arrogance or by being oxtered by the media.
What if the POS is *still* holding the sell-soul-to-satan card? He's definitely desperate/wounded enough to play it. He'll need to purchase a mouth speaking great things because he sure isn't coherent on his own.
Hmmm, maybe TOTUS was a loaner prop from the devil himself, just to get Barry addicted to the assistance. Kind of like government handouts.
Liberalism exposed as collectivist inefficient redistribution.
The freak out is because some of them are starting to realize that Liberalism or "democratic socialism" is being exposed for the economic damage is causes.
"It reminds me of how progressives have built their base, one hapless dependent at a time. Obama was the face of his constituency - what the Left wants America to be, "Stunned, unhappy, angry, sour,.... genuinely incoherent," incapable of coping and DEPENDENT on Them. Earlier comment
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