Posted on 10/06/2012 7:39:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
The first presidential debate of 2012 is now behind us.
And Republican challenger Mitt Romney won it handily.
No one challenges this verdict. Even President Obama’s most ardent supporters concede it by way of the truly laughable excuses to which they’ve resorted in accounting for the decisive drubbing that their candidate received.
But while the conventional wisdom concerning the victor is sound enough, the conventional wisdom concerning the debate’s loser is not so much.
Obama, we are told, was “off his game.” From Denver’s altitude to personal family issues, every conceivable rationale has been offered by the President’s admirers to explain how or why he was “off his game.”
No explanation is necessary, however, because there is nothing to explain: Obama was not off his game.
The Obama who arrived for his showdown with Romney is the same Obama that we have been seeing for the last four to five years, the Obama who clashed with and defeated John McCain in 2008. He was cool and collected. He spoke reasonably well. He smirked and didn’t spare the occasion to look down his nose at his rival a time or two. He threw out the same sound bites to which the country has had the great misfortune of being subjected for what now seems like an eternity.
Things like the widely accepted notion that Obama’s heart didn’t join the rest of his body in Denver are what happen when illusion and reality clash.
The illusion is what we may call “the Messianic syndrome” (TMS). Obama suffers from TMS, it is true, but so do his supporters.
Jesus’ closest disciples came to recognize Him as the Messiah before He was arrested, tried, and crucified. Yet upon witnessing His Passion, they lost faith. From the debris of their shattered messianic expectations doubt and even despair took flight. It took the Resurrection to resurrect their belief in Jesus’ true identity.
Obama’s disciples have also had messianic expectations for their leader to fulfill. In part this is because Obama himself has done everything to give rise to those expectations. Yet it is also partially owing to the fact that his followers—particularly his followers in the media—have been just as diligent in creating those expectations as has Obama himself.
The problem, though, is that Obama and his accomplices in the media have been laboring away at this enterprise for so long that they have actually come to believe their own hype. Obama, they are convinced, truly is the Messiah. Because of this, he deserves to be recognized as such by everyone—including his opponents.
Messiahs are supposed to be bottomless fonts of wisdom and virtue. Messiahs are supposed to be more intelligent than everyone and anyone else. Messiahs are expected to prevail over all countervailing forces.
And this is all because Messiahs are expected to redeem those to whom they have been sent.
Just as Jesus’ disciples were paralyzed with shock when they saw their Messiah crucified, so too are Obama’s followers still reeling in shock from the sight of the verbal crucifixion that their messiah suffered courtesy of Mitt Romney.
Of course, because Jesus really was the Messiah, His glorious Resurrection was more than enough to vindicate the faith that His disciples had placed in Him. The reality, as opposed to the illusion, is that Obama, on the other hand, is no kind of messiah at all. Thus, rather than accept this, he and his followers have no option but to avail themselves of any and every means—however preposterous—that enables them to evade reality.
And the cold, merciless reality is that their candidate lost, and lost resoundingly, not because he was unprepared or disengaged. He lost because, for at least the first time since he has been in the national limelight, Obama had to square off with a man who is in every respect his superior.
Whether measured in terms of intelligence, worldliness, articulation, or even physical appearance, Romney outshines Obama by miles.
This is the ugly reality that Obama and his disciples can’t acknowledge.
Still, reality is persistent. It has a way of creeping into the consciousness. Things are only going to get worse for the One and his followers.
Obama will be more fired up during the next debate, for certain. But it will be to no avail. Romney can no more desist in overshadowing Obama than the Sistine Chapel can desist in eclipsing “piss Christ” as an artwork.
Illusions are beginning to give way to reality.
Wow! Great read. I’ve been thinking this as well. Prez Zero is going to come out swinging the next time around becAuse he thinks its his style and method of delivery and not the substance of what he is saying. And of course it’s the latter. He will most certainly over reach and insult Romney in order to fluster him. And our guy, who DOES his debAte homework, and has the correct arguements in terms of substance, will annihilate him. Popcorn is ready sitting out on my counter.
The author’s name must be Peter. /s
This really sums it up perfectly. And I have to give credit for the Freeper whose name I've forgotten who made an excellent point about this debate the other day. To paraphrase him/her: "Romney is 15 years older than Obama, but in that debate he seemed younger and more energetic."
The Sistine Chapel/Piss C....comparison at the end was devastating!!
One wonders how. The article explains well that Obama has never before really been tested by a serious opponent. The only way he knows how to get "fired up" is to shout lies and spread racial innuendo, like the street rabble-rouser that he is. That won't win him much from a suddenly skeptical public.
Key moment was Obama saying “look to the future.”
In other words, don’t talk about my record.
Townhall style is tha absolute worst. Totally phony and easy for the alphabets to control.
Obama disappeared into thin air.
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” Matthew 7, 15
“Take care that no one leads you astray. For many will come in My name, saying ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.” Matthew 24, 4-5
He did seem younger and more energetic and yet more mature and deeper at the same time, which seems impossibly contradictory.
Dismissive and petulant versus Keyes' eloquence on Christianity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-yUCg0TASc
Yeah, he wants us to ignore it. Huge mistake, because we won’t
Romney was impressive, I must admit, I have a bit more regard for him and the future when he wins. However, what I took away from the debate is IMHO, is that Obama lost, and his responses and lack of them, left me terrified of the 3 am call. (excuses, He was sound asleep, he had just had a nightmare, he was at a lower altitude, he and MO had just finished...) All the excuses I have heard tell me He cannot handle his position, he has demeaned his title and if he were to retain, we are done.
I turned my TV off after the second lie that arrogant pos said, which wasn’t long after the debate started.
Clearly he couldn't even recall and regurgitate the most basic talking points to knock Romney off his game.
In a desperate move, when he did try, he just threw them all out at once and Romney replied “I don't even know what you're talking about”
This next one is over for 0.
I am not sure what you mean with that, other then sarcasm. Please clarify.
I have enjoyed the groveling apologists almost as much as seeing a totally inept president exposed for what he is....an ill-informed and out classed wussy man. The media loses as well as their mythical man. GO ROMNEY!!
Bambi was obviously tired and off his game ~ he couldn’t even summon the energy to give Romney the finger.
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