Posted on 10/17/2012 6:12:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When the evening began, one observation dominated the conversation: “If President Barack Obama has another debate like the last one, the election’s over.”
When the evening ended, I was struck by a different thought: If Obama had performed this way at the first debate, the election would have been over.
In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge? More often than not on Tuesday night, I think, Obama had the better of it.
Had the Obama of this debate showed up two weeks ago, he might well have ended Romney’s effort to present himself as a credible alternative to the president.
That opportunity vanished that night. While it’s clear that Obama’s performance will revive the enthusiasm of his supporters, it seems unlikely that it will cause those impressed by Romney to reconsider. Like they say in show business, timing is everything.
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Obama did not win the debate.
oh? What kind of man keeps needing women to save his junk? Hillary, Candy and Steffie Stephanopolous, etc keep riding in to rescue The First Damsel In Distress. It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic.
If this was in a vacuum but Im getting the vibe people have wole up..that they been lied to and played by Obama and the press..
Greenfield’s logic is tortured. Says O won because he depicted Romney as out of touch rich guy who doesn’t care about the middle class. In fact, Romney pummelled Obama on the economy and Obama offered nothing in response. Even a CBS poll showed Romney won huge on the economy. There’s no substance to the notion that Obama won. Moreover, O’s lies on Libya and drilling are going to catch up to him and those will become the story.
Obama won nothing.
These are the same people who also said that Joe Biden won.
We have a HUGE debt and millions out of work. Get people back to work!! That's the only way you fill the coffers.
Obama is a loser and only wins when other losers believed his jive song and dance routine.
He still plays his magic piccolo drawing away the figurative rats from the city, but reality comes to play here...
What happened to the rats?
On substance he failed.
The leftist pundits point to Obama being more assertive than in the previous debate, so, they call him the winner just for the assertiveness.
But, let me get this straight. Obama shows up, being more “assertive” than in the last debate, and some people call him a winner, or at least tied in the debate? Give me a break!
So, winning to many people constitutes being assertive in defending policies that have the American economy in decline, and 23 million people out of work or looking for work or underemployed? Winning is about assertively lying about his energy policies, which have to a large extent, caused energy prices to skyrocket? Winning is about assertively lying to the American people about what happened in Libya, where our 4 Americans got killed, including our ambassador? How can assertiveness be able to undo the facts that, Obama has had 4 years of more than 1 trillion dollars in deficit spending? How can assertiveness defend the fact that, Obama has added more than 6 trillion dollars to the national debt? How can assertiveness undo the fact that, 50% of college graduates can’t find jobs once they graduate?
If assertiveness is what counts, and somebody could win points by simply being assertive, then, Ahmadinejad is a winner every time he goes to the UN to defend his policy of trying to erase Israel from the face of the world.
Nobody should ever be declared a winner, or be considered even close to being tied, when the last four years have been disastrous for the country, with domestic and foreign policy.
If the facts are completely different from the “assertive” presentation which the present brought to the debate, then, he is automatically the loser. Facts and the truth matter many times more than style.
Maybe Obama just showing up, in a liberals mind, is the same as winning.
I found him to be surly, evasive and outright lying.
Where Obamas voice got higher pitched when he got argumentative, Mitts was pretty even keeled.
Zero is the incumbent and should have that to boost him. Instead, people are looking for reasons to jump ship. Mitt, even in a heated debate, looks poised. Obama was "LOOKING" angry. (read "ready to throw a temper tantrum").
Though granted, Obama performed better than HIS last performance, I can't see how ANYBODY can honestly say that one PERFORMED better than the other, to win the debate.
As far as substance, Mitt wiped the floor with him. And with the near the end exchange about Libya, I think it sets next weeks foreign policy debate up for Mitt. I don't think Mitt could quite believe it when hammering Zero on it. And it brings out into the open, post debate, for everyone to check what Zero REALLY said.
These debates ARE NOT going to change anyone who has already decided. These are for the undecided. And I think last night eased many peoples minds for Mitt, and I also think it exposed Obama.
Last night Mitt HAMMERED Obamas record. Something Obama couldn't realistically defend (except to HIS supporters), and OPENLY set up Obama for next weeks debate.
Barring a John McCain performance, these debates are wrapped up.
Hussein didn’t win. Mitt didn’t win. America lost.
I view it more as a presentation from each and after weighing the lies and obfuscations and misdirections from the O, the only one with a factual presentation was Romney.
Obama did not win this debate. Romney was about to deliver a TKO when he was wrongly held up by the ref over Libya.
Telling, though, that even the Obama cheerleaders at Yahoo! realize deep down that Obama’s running on empty now.
What about 0bama’s Islamic Religion?
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw of Sodamn Insane after the first Gulf War. Saddam was in a tank, driving in reverse, declaring he surrendered. He won.
The One spoke, therefore he won.
For Obamabots, in-your-face rhetoric, unchallenged obfuscation and bald-face-lying counts more for points than an honest appraisal of the facts of historic record.
How do these people measure winning?
Two undecided voter panels, one on FOX and one on MSNBC, favored Romney after THIS debate. Obama, and his side kick Crowley, are getting smeared for their lies this morning in even the liberal MSM.
And who will ever forget Romney getting in Bammy’s face to press him on cuts to oil permits and on his own Chinese investments. That will be what goes down in history.
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