Obama kept looking to Jim Leher for help. Leher did coach Obama on one or two questions, but without a teleprompter, Obama was rambling.
Now, Candy Crowly will get her marching orders for the next debate!
<<...Since late August...Romney has been portrayed as a candidate in decline, and Obama as a resurgent front-runner.>>
Portrayed Romney decline by the media yes, actual decline no. If you thought Obama was running a negative campaign, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Mitt better be ready for the kitchen sink these last 30 days because the Kenyan will be desparate.
Romney is everything that Obama despises - he’s White, Rich, good-looking and nice. Romney makes his success look effortless (which it is not). I’m sure that Obama had that - “He inherited it, he didn’t earn it.” attitude in the back of his mind, going into the debate. Since Obama has been petted and passed along through Affirmative Action, he has never really been questioned or challenged - he has been helped.
Romney just slapped Obama full in the face with reality and Obama didn’t like it one little bit. The problem Obama has now is that he has coasted for so many years, he can’t cram the information into his head fast enough to come close to Romney’s level of knowledge. And Obama knows it, it was showing on his face last night.
Bad grammar aside, I had to double check that this wasn't satire when I read this assertion. It was Salon, though, so it might as well be satire.
The author apparently didn't see much of the dem convention.
Really? They had a women's rights advocate (Fluke) telling us how bad R's are for women followed by a serial sexual offender (Clinton).
Like the voice vote to keep mention of "God" in their platform? Was that "perfectly choreographed"?
The people who watched the debate were written off some time ago by the dems. 0 is counting on the moron vote who are uninflenced by the debate.
This is the first time most American voters got to see Romney unfiltered and not just being attacked in the press or lied about in a 30 second attack ad. Most people liked what they saw; a presidential looking man.
Seriously? God out of the platform, God back in, voice vote x3 and all? So that was planned to happen that way???
This debate format was also not good for a somewhat supercilious
pseudo-intellectual person. Much better for a practiced slickster.
Next debate, “town hall” style with Candy Crowley. Could make a difference.
Romney showed us what American competence and class looks like, while obama showed us our lowest uncommon denominator and the contrast could not have been much more clear.
Romney did well and we finally got a little bit of the education we're desperate for.
Please, sir, may we have another!!!
Liberalism is a mental disease. As further proof, HuffPo today has Obama up — winning 301 electoral votes after this debate fiasco. ROTFLMAO!