I doubt if obama’s performance in the next two debates will differ from last night’s. If anything, they might be worse, as he becomes demoralized and panics.
I mostly agree. I leave a tiny bit of wriggle-room for the altitude excuse and “opening night jitters (it can happen to anyone) but I believe that this WAS Øbozo’s “A” game.
The reason why? Because of his act today where he is back on the stump and excusing his way out of his own crappy performance. All that head-fake “I’m not a good debater” wasn’t so much a head-fake as it was a bar-setting exercise.
He may do better next time, but without his teleprompter, his bully-pulpit, and his fawning audience he’s going to bomb.
Saw this .... guess Axelrat realizes that he can only force-feed so much info into Obummer, especially if O doesn’t want to do it (it’s a drag, you know!):
All but stating that the Republican had won the debate, David Axelrod conceded that the performance aspect was ‘not the President’s strong suit in these events’ but insisted that ‘I don’t see us adding huge amounts of additional prep time.’
In the debate, Obama showed quite clearly that all he is capable of is giving speeches. His manner of speaking was still calibrated to “speech mode”, even while he was engaging in back-and-forth with Romney. When someone is giving a speech to an audience, his speech takes on a certain rhythm and intonation, but when someone is speaking to another person(s) who can respond, that spoken rhythm is usually different. Obama maintained the “speech mode” all throughout, and my guess is that it is because that is all he knows how to do. It is quite obvious that he practices his oratory regularly, using various techniques of inflection, pauses, intonations, etc. to make himself sound eloquent and wise, but he obviously has not put any effort into debate and he has no natural ability for it (nor intelligence). I can’t see him performing any differently in the next two debates because he simply isn’t capable of it.