YES! He'll lose support for failing to challenge Romney.
10%
NO! It's just one debate. People are overreacting.
90%
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It won't cost him the election but it WAS bad..WILL cost him some votes....and frankly was bizarre. Something was truly amiss with Obama Wednesday night. It was very strange.
I'm relieved to hear Thom's argument that you can't win a debate by lying; I hope progressive pundits pick up on that truth and turn it into a meme. It's like hitting a fly ball to center field that gets caught but scoring it as a home run. I wish President Obama was more forceful, but maybe he and the team had a plan to use what Romney says in the debate against him in the following days. After all, the best weapon against Romney thus far has been Romney himself. Now the Obama campaign has twenty-seven new lies it can use against him. If I was a Republicon, I would be confused by Romney. Romney's "boys" comment may have had an effect on the President, but he certainly didn't show it. And thanks to Thom for pointing that out. If you want to score one for the lying bully who doesn't play by the rules, Romney won.
And what was the black dot on his flag pin? Someone tweeted that it was his robot reset button. Killing Big Bird didn't seem like the shrewdest thing to say, and threatening to fire the moderator during the debate...wow, what a jerk!
What was in The President's Security briefing yesterday morning? We don't know; may never.
Or, perhaps:
Imagin having spent over 3-years dealing with the minutia of a trillion-dollar operation, crisis after global-crisis, everything ultimately landing on your desk, with continuous vicious opposition from opponents, and frankly weak-support from your own party and the public -- and tonight finding yourself on a carnival stage with an arrogant pompous-ass spewing simplistic lie after misrepresentation after fabrication, of grossly oversimplified bainalities. How do you begin to respond in half of 90-minutes?
-- -- Then suddenly the futility of three long years might become distressingly clear. The very fact that this poser is across the stage from you . . . . acting like he's important. And you're supposed to take this seriously?
Me . . . I'd be silently wagging my head asking myself, "What the hell am I doing here, wasting my time with this loser, on a pseudo-reality-show, little more than gladiatorial entertainment for millions of folks -- when I have real work to do?"
Or more likely, I'da long ago said: "Take this job and shove it. I'm outta-here; who needs-it."
Unlike Obama Mitt has NO job and Has all the time in the world to prepare his remarks aka lies. Mitt etched a sketched his way through the debate . Mitt Lied about his and Ryans tax plan, cutting education, hiring teachers ,Mitt lied about regulation. Lied about everything Yet corp media-talking heads , cons declare Mitt a winner .Lying with sincerity now counts as a win. How low have we sunk ?
I think Obama tries not to appear as a angry black man as Hannity tries to portray him Obama must be much more assertive Screw Hannity No one who thinks for oneself buys into Fox Hannity or Rushs race baiting nonsense.and smears .
On this poll 8% say it will cost him the election. That is a bigger percentage than what he was leading by. I keep hearing about '' undecided voters" and many could change their vote by listening to the debate, without checking if what the candidates say is what their record shows is true. It is scary that so many people couldn't see through Romney's act, though it was a good act and I was disapointed that the President didn't hit back harder.
Unfortunately the Goebel's effect of telling lies often enough by the media which is what the uneducated mass of voters make their decision by. I lodt track of the lies! But Obama made several errorsw also. The error of under estimating the professional coaching of thwe Romney specialst is dangerous.
It took weeks of rehearsing for Mitt Romney to come across as likeable. He's good at manipulating numbers in a business environment but will trip and fall on foreign policy. Bullying won't save him if he's lacking in knowledge.
I think mad-dog Romney would have jumped on any thing Obama said. He was primed for that, a desperate man acting manic and desperate. I think Obama was right to keep his cool, not take the bait and not come across too negative. Let the spinners spin. Too many lies - not enough time. . I do think it would have been better for him to address the TV audience more, and talk more directly to the people, like Romney is not his number 1 concern, the American people are.