Posted on 10/03/2012 11:34:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The presidential debate hyped as an exercise in meticulously planned zingers had little zing.
And President Obama was doubly zinger-less Wednesday night in Denver.
He was flat. He meandered more than Republican Mitt Romney.
Obama used lots of numbers. But it sounded like a calculus lesson. It wasn’t the 2+2=4 math that proves a point during a debate.
And there was a more important figure he missed: 47.
That’s the percentage of non income-taxpaying citizens whom Romney seemed to denigrate in a recently released hidden-video, which played right into the Democrats’ narrative about making Romney the out-of-touch rich man.
But Obama never mentioned it.
And when the debate started, it was Romney talking about the little guy.
Romney was the phrase-coiner fretting about “trickle-down government.” Romney was the great communicator, starting off by congratulating the president on his 20-year wedding anniversary with his wife, Michelle.
“I’m sure this was the most romantic place you could imagine here — here with me,” Romney said.
Ordered to be silent, the crowd couldn’t help itself. People laughed. Obama smiled.
By night’s end, though, liberals from HBOs Bill Maher to MSNBC’s Ed Schultz were in head-shaking disbelief.
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LOL - Pricless lead-in to this thread!
Mitt had 3 days to get acclimated to the Rockies.Zer0 was oxygen deprived”””
Soooo—who barred Obama from going to Colorado early himself???
The reason one can predict Syria is because they’re Shi’ra. We’re going to be a witness to an Ottoman II, if obamov has his way, or at least his boss’.
‘______some excuse about “thin air”______’
Well, like minds - - -
At that hour in the am, I was not aware the media was hinting at this - were they? I was on Free Republic.
Was making a joke.
However, there is no ‘original’ idea (about anything).
If I have thought of it, so has 10,000 others!
BUT - I should get the credit - not Gore!
If I was ‘in’ before him.
I have been going now and again to Littleton, 30 minutes south of Denver, since 1996 to visit eldest daughter and family.
Truth be told, I don’t remember feeling any ‘altitude’the first day or 2, so why would Obumpo be affected?
But it makes for an excuse - - -
And jokes first.
Bamo is really loosing it today with the “Real Romney up there - !”
He should give up the D.C. job and become an (obscure) comedian.
Why should someone who spends half his time in Air Force One at 30,000 or 40,000 feet (probably pressurized to 8,000 feet) suffer at 5,200 feet in Denver?
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