I look at Presidential candidates politely doing what the Moderator tells them to do as a sign of weakness. The debate is about the candidates, NOT the moderator.
That is the one thing we here in FreeRepublic center on day in and day out, over and over again.
We may use words like patriot, but what we mean is ... something inside that is uniqely American.
I won't repeat how I get there, but the fact of the matter is,; there is NOTHING AMERICAN in or about zero.
THAT'S why I call him zero ... 'cause he jus' AIN'T.
As pointed out on another blog, it is interesting that Saturday night live will parody MSNBC having a melt down over Obama’s poor performance in the debate but they refuse to parody Obama, himself. If any other candidate had bumbled the way Obama did, Saturday night would have been all over it. We have reached a frightening point in our society when it appears that many outlets are afraid to point out any flaws in “The One” for fear of reprisals.
While I concede that the media IS the liberal establishment, it seems that even when they touch on his failures, they tend to pussy-foot around the subject rather than calling him out the way they would any President before him - including the Clintons. While the press went non-stop about Monica Lewinsky (even in defensive mode) they won’t even touch an Obama scandal. This very likely has more to do with threats from the administration than what would appear to be total ignorance on the part of the press. Just saying . . . .
I am waiting for the story line of, Poor poor wacky, he’s been suffering in silence with a painful debilitating diease/condition, and the ebil rethugs have been mean and taken advantage of him.
Wow.. a uni-bomber manifesto dissertation breakdown on why Romney one the debate.
4 words sums it up better: Romney was better prepared...
To add color for reading enjoyment: Romney was better prepared. Obama is a narcissistic pig who believes he won regardless.
Biden could come out looking like a winner, by simply NOT looking too foolish. This could be a trap for Ryan. The expectations for Biden could not be any lower.
Interesting that such old moderators have been selected for the debates. Jim Leher is 78 years old. And Bob Schieffer, who will moderate the third Obama/Romney debate, is 75 years old.
Why Romney won the First Debate?
Simply stated..... OBAMA IS A FRAUD!
The Left were disappointed in Obama’s performance because they were led to believe that he is intelligent and well educated. The truth is that Obama’s best attributes are his voice and his ability to read a teleprompter. And Obama’s greatest accomplishment is the deception of revealing who he really is and his plans to fundamentally transform America.
At times while Romney was speaking to Obama and Obama was looking down and writing, he looked like he was taking notes like a student.
Obastard’s body language was very telling. He constantly made very small nodding “yes” head motions indicating agreement with every attack line that Romney launched against him. It was very weird to see a debater subtly agreeing with his opponent. It’s very poor form to give yourself away like that, but to nod IN AGREEMENT with your opponents points against you is really weird and astonishing.
I was nervous for about the first 25 minutes. The I called my son who was listening on the radio to see if he was hearing what I was seeing. It was all frosting after that!
The reason Romney won is because for the first time in this campaign, the public could have a side by side comparison of the two candidates unfiltered by the media. The comparison was not flattering for Obama. The emperor has no clothes.
“Romney speaks directly to Obama with strong, but respectful self-assurance.”
That is why he won the debate. Romney had some great zingers...that he used sparingly and was low tone in manner. Romney came across and respectful but right.
I am not remotely a Romney supporter (of course I don’t support Obama in ANY way), but I admired the debating skill he showed. He sliced and diced Obama, and did so with a smile. It was one for the history books. Let us hope that Romney continues to do the same in the other debates. Even IF he loses and Obama pulls off a win because of the ghetto&liberal vote, Obama will be a mortally wounded lame duck.
As Clint noted, the Empty Chair improved by codetoad:
ROMNEY LOST THE DEBATE! OBAMA IS IN CONTROL!
It is past time to fire Barack and his empty chair and have both of them hit the road back to Chicago!
So hit the road Barack and take your empty chair and empty suit with you!
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
The second and succeeding parts of Romney's discussion must allow younger generations to see that the consequence of debt is loss of freedom, making their choice one of freedom vs. slavery to government.
America's Founders and Framers of the Constitution which, if enforced by its "only KEEPERS" (Story) prevents Obama and his fellow "progressives" from enslaving America through excessive and non-productive spending.
The Author of our Declaration of Independence from another petty tyrant's excesses, Thomas Jefferson, in his First Inaugural Address, summarized what Romney needs to find a way to summarize. His clearly-stated summary is reproduced below, as it appears in "Our Ageless Constitution."
I was hoping someone in the crowd would shout out “Bullsh*t!” when Zero was talking, but no such luck...it would have been worth getting thrown out.
“The President primarily looks down or directly at Romney for the remainder of the debate, receiving his scolding with a comportment that can best be described as submissive.”
Obama has a man crush on Romney.