Romney will cut medicare! ----- Obama is already doing that! uh, we agree on most of this stuff ----- Not even close pal ......................................... Debating an empty chair is no fair. lol. Obama only practiced with John Kerry.
Posted on 10/03/2012 11:16:00 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
This was a debate for the green-eyeshade crowd. If you tuned in Wednesday night to see President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney offer inspiring visions for the future, you heard more numbers than you did paeans to America.
The bottom line on engagement with an American public not five weeks from Election Day: Romney was alert, energized and confident. Obama slumped his shoulders, smiled mostly to himself, and for some reason kept staring down. He was that guy at the meeting who's surreptitiously checking his email.
The exciting 2008 candidate of hope and change? Gone. Even the larger-than-life American eagle hanging behind the two candidates seemed perplexed.
This was, though, a serious exchange blessedly shy of rehearsed jabs — that gentlemanly, biceps-gripping handshake followed by the one-against-one collision this presidential race hadn't seen.
Romney moved fast to keep viewers from straying to ESPN. By 8:12 p.m. Chicago time, he already had evoked Vice President Joe Biden's gaffe of the week: Romney suggested that under Obama's policies, the middle class has been "buried." Not until 8:24 did Obama retort with his own one-liner — that the American economy was sound when his fellow Democrat Bill Clinton was president.
By then, though, the talk about federal tax rates was deeply in the weeds. Before the debate's economic segment had ended, we wondered if we had tuned into a reality program, "The Wonk and the Prof." The former, Romney, was agile and ready to rumble; the prof, by contrast, seemed wordy and defensive.
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Honestly what else could he be?
The only place he's a success is in the imaginations of his sycophant billy-goat MSM amen corner. Everyone else thinks he's a f***-up.
You spend almost four years making a fool of yourself, fumbling every play and then inexplicably taking a victory lap while the cheerleading squad holds up phony score placards, sooner or later someone steps up and points at the actual scoreboard. Yeah, all of a sudden, you're on defense!
Mitt Romney is, I guess, the first American to introduce Obammy to reality in four years, and maybe in his whole life. I say "the first American" because I suspect Vladimir Putin and a few other foreign leaders have already done it, but not for public consumption.
Romney will cut medicare! ----- Obama is already doing that! uh, we agree on most of this stuff ----- Not even close pal ......................................... Debating an empty chair is no fair. lol. Obama only practiced with John Kerry.
Woot! Woot! Chi town news burns their quarterback and runs a Touch Back scoring for the other team!
I thought R’s most clever moment was agreeing on keeping SS untouched and then suddenly “remembering” that 0 was already cutting the crap out of it.
Yeah.
He’d “forgotten” that.
And he smiled when he hit him.
Wicked.
lolz, yup
If Obama sounded like a professor, no wonder education in the US is in the crapper.
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