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Live-Blogging The First Presidential Debate 2012
The Daily Beast ^ | 10/03/2012 | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 10/04/2012 5:50:51 AM PDT by italyconservative

10.31 pm. Look: you know how much I love the guy, and you know how much of a high information viewer I am, and I can see the logic of some of Obama's meandering, weak, professorial arguments. But this was a disaster for the president for the key people he needs to reach, and his effete, wonkish lectures may have jolted a lot of independents into giving Romney a second look.....

(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012debates; andrewsullivan; thedailybeast
Interesting take as it happened. I love - absolutely love how Sullivan makes a Reagan comparison to Romney 2 times!
1 posted on 10/04/2012 5:50:57 AM PDT by italyconservative
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To: italyconservative

Romney was impressive in last nights debate.
obama was who he was incompetent empty suit, there is no man without a teleprompter.
Romney is not and will never be a Reagan.


2 posted on 10/04/2012 5:57:31 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: italyconservative

Reading some of the comments, I can’t stand that they believe Romney speaks nothing but lies. They are so entrenched in their rut they can’t see out of it! Pathetic! Fact is Obama couldn’t refute what Romney had to say because he spoke the truth.

Excellent debate. Obummer showed up as the boy-man he truly is. Romney took him behind the shed and gave him the whipping of his life!


3 posted on 10/04/2012 6:00:33 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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The comments were interesting, I agree.
Someone wrote about Romney’s smile as a smirk, actually I thought it looked like he was holding back a LOL moment. That smile was just holding back the laughter.
Romney was prepared and ready, obama was not (especially since he spent hours complaining his staff wanted him to practice, maybe next time he’ll listen).
It wont be so easy for Romney next time, obama will be ready.


4 posted on 10/04/2012 6:06:27 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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I totally agree - there will never be another Ronaldus Magnus. I just got a kick from reading that comparison. Sullivan is a seemingly confused conservative.


5 posted on 10/04/2012 6:09:24 AM PDT by italyconservative (Come on November!)
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I don't know if I've ever seen a man so frustrated, so overwhelmed, so out smarted, so ready to get the hell out of there. Romney rocked Obama. Obama has been coddled by the media his entire political career. Last night was his rude awakening. The foreign policy debate might be even worse for him. It's a fine Thursday morning in America.
6 posted on 10/04/2012 6:14:17 AM PDT by ryan71
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To: New Jersey Realist

Libs are delusional, totally delusional. So is Obummer and it was on full display last night.

It’s not so much what the candidates say at debates, but how they say it and how they look .... Sullivan’s comment that Romney looked like a ‘classic president’ and Obama just looked different .... that picture is going to stick in a lot of heads.


7 posted on 10/04/2012 6:18:16 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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AS guys on Glenn Beck said this morning..

Romnry kicked Obamas ass last night..

8 posted on 10/04/2012 6:22:25 AM PDT by PLD
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Sullivan claims Obama was “wonkish”????? If I ever attended a class with a lecturer that vague, disorganized,discouraged and unable to make a clear case for his ideas, I would have been in the Dean’s office to lodge a complaint or to drop his course.


9 posted on 10/04/2012 6:25:08 AM PDT by louie2
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Sullivan claims Obama was “wonkish”????? If I ever attended a class with a lecturer that vague, disorganized,discouraged and unable to make a clear case for his ideas, I would have been in the Dean’s office to lodge a complaint or to drop his course.


10 posted on 10/04/2012 6:28:37 AM PDT by louie2
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To: italyconservative

11 posted on 10/04/2012 6:44:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Libs, dems, unions, leftist scum & murderous muzzies - are like bacteria: attack, attack, attack!)
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To: italyconservative

Liberals are deafest by nature, so when the possibility of real defeat is presented to them - melt down.


12 posted on 10/04/2012 6:47:51 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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“...Romney looked like a ‘classic president’ and Obama just looked different ...”

The media’s vaunted “optics” were astonishing last night. It actually appeared that Obama was shrinking! Halfway through, his suit looked too large. Weird.


13 posted on 10/04/2012 6:59:34 AM PDT by txrefugee
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