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Obama Says He Was ‘Just Too Polite’ at Debate
ABC News ^ | 10/10/2012 | Ann Compton

Posted on 10/10/2012 10:27:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Conceding that he failed to deliver at last week’s debate, President Obama says he was “just too polite” and that voters should expect “a little more activity” next week in round two.

In a radio interview on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Obama compared the presidential race to a seven-game basketball series in which he was ahead two-nothing and lost one game to Mitt Romney at the debate.

“You have a seven-game series, we’re up two zero and we lose one,” he explained. “You know, this is a long haul and I think that it’s very important for folks to make sure that they understand that as long as people stay focused, we will win this thing.”

“The good news is that’s just the first one,” the president said of last week’s debate. “Governor Romney put forward a whole bunch of stuff that either involved him running away from positions that he had taken or doubling down on things like Medicare vouchers that are going to hurt him long-term.

“Keep in mind, that the issues that are at stake for folks haven’t changed,” he continued. “We’ve got millions of people who’ve got health care now because of our health care bill and they won’t have it if Mitt Romney is elected president.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012debates; blame; debate; obama; romney
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s true, polite people always look sullen and hostile.


21 posted on 10/10/2012 10:40:24 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please, be rude as you as you want at the next, ‘Bammy.


22 posted on 10/10/2012 10:40:37 AM PDT by Thorliveshere
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To: DuncanWaring

That’s because he was on an African-American’s show, speaking to an African-American audience.


23 posted on 10/10/2012 10:43:04 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: Thorliveshere

That’s right, Barry. Next time lay down a gangsta rap. Show us how it’s done.


24 posted on 10/10/2012 10:43:05 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: DuncanWaring

“Tom Joyner Morning Show,” is a “black” drve-time program.

I remember having to hear it one morning while they did their “news” segment.

Just a bunch of left-wing fools giving some of the most moronic commentary to the events of the day. Usually when the news story got to something outside the country, they were bat$hit clueless as to what the story was about.

Perfect venue for O.


25 posted on 10/10/2012 10:43:27 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: pfflier

# 5

Romney sent in his evil twin, that was not the REAL Romney.


26 posted on 10/10/2012 10:44:11 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (What Clint Said !!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

OK, then, what was game one and two?

Face it, this was game one - and the first game he’s ever played as president, and he got exposed.

The Dems are especially fond this year of setting up straw men.

Here, they set up two straw games.


27 posted on 10/10/2012 10:44:11 AM PDT by HannibalHamlinJr
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To: SeekAndFind

Obamaspeak: ‘Folks’ = “I’m pulling something out of my butt and I hope you’re dumb enough to accept it”


28 posted on 10/10/2012 10:45:44 AM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: SeekAndFind
We’ve got millions of people who’ve got health care now because of our health care bill and they won’t have it if Mitt Romney is elected president.
He actually things obamacare is a net electoral plus for him.
29 posted on 10/10/2012 10:45:59 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: SeekAndFind
We’ve got millions of people who’ve got health care now because of our health care bill and they won’t have it if Mitt Romney is elected president.
He actually things obamacare is a net electoral plus for him.
30 posted on 10/10/2012 10:46:17 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: SeekAndFind

So next debate he’ll be rude AND stupid.


31 posted on 10/10/2012 10:46:47 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: SeekAndFind
Substitute “polite” with “imbecilic’ and we're there.
32 posted on 10/10/2012 10:49:33 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: LS

Yes. I was telling folks last week that Obama supporters what him to hit back harder. What that (should) mean is that he pummels Romney with more and “better” facts. What I maintain is that Obama doesn’t have the ability to do that because his policies suck (can use those) and his “facts” are lies that Romney will obliterate.

So the only “harder” hits Zero has is to speak with an angry, louder voice. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE let him do that. If he does, he will come across as an angry bully with no substance...which is all he really is.

In short, he only has two choices, wimp out again, or play to his true angry empty self. He can NOT win with substance because he has none. Period.


33 posted on 10/10/2012 10:51:45 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: SeekAndFind

But that lib pundit said last week that Obama’s debate handicap is he can’t come across as too forceful or else he’d be seen as “an angry black man” by those redneck white racists in the south & midwest. /s


34 posted on 10/10/2012 10:54:43 AM PDT by mellow velo (Oxymorons: jumbo shrimp, rap music, liberal think-tank)
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To: Reddon

Some of us been saying this for a while...keep the pressure on him and he will blow and when he does, his true colors will come out: a bully in an empty suit yelling from a band box. Just need someone to ask the right question in the right mannor next week, something like, you told us you were going to cut the deficit in half yet the record shows it went the other way, 4 years in a row. Were you misleading us then or now? That would light the fuse. Next up, you said the only war we should have been involved in was Afghanistan, well, you were forced to expand it and now you are planning to leave with a date specific. Why.
BOOM. You said if you got your stimules, the unemployment would go down to under 6%, why has it not and why can I not find a job at my former level of income. Super NOVA.


35 posted on 10/10/2012 11:01:52 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: SeekAndFind

First “Romney lied”.. Now “I was too polite”.. Next?


36 posted on 10/10/2012 11:03:57 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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Obummer says, “we will win this thing”. Is that the “thing” he never should have won the first time? Way to degrade the importannce of the Office, Mr. Zero.


37 posted on 10/10/2012 11:08:06 AM PDT by NoRedTape
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To: SeekAndFind
Spinning GINORMOUS LIES is now considered being “Too Polite” - I am not sure when exactly I dropped down through Alice's hole..........
38 posted on 10/10/2012 11:08:22 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: SeekAndFind

Too polite???

Too evil (fascist/socialist views), Too unprepared, Too arrogant, too feminine.

It’s great that Obutthole now thinks he needs to be LESS “polite” because that means he’ll unleash his inner meanness in the next debate (we all know it’s lurking there, ready to erupt).

His meanness will backfire on him when the masses see the guy who used to deliver windy speeches full of platitudes — is really a mean, insecure S.O.B.


39 posted on 10/10/2012 11:10:34 AM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: SeekAndFind

Any particular reason he spotted himeself 2 games?


40 posted on 10/10/2012 11:11:34 AM PDT by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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