Posted on 10/10/2012 5:52:42 PM PDT by Steelfish
President Obama Vows 'Determined' Performance at Second Debate
President Obama on Debate Performance: 'I Had a Bad Night' By DEVIN DWYER WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2012 President Obama on Wednesday said in an exclusive interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer that he plans to more aggressively confront Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in their second debate next week, trying to allay concerns among supporters that a lackluster first debate performance may have cost him the race.
"Governor Romney had a good night. I had a bad night. It's not the first time," Obama said in his first televised interview since the Denver debate on Oct. 3. Despite Romney's post-debate momentum and surge in the polls, the "fundamentals of what this race is about haven't changed," he said.
"This was one event. We've got four weeks to go. Nobody is going to be fighting harder than I am," Obama told Sawyer, aiming to reassure his base. "What they need is to make sure they tune in on Tuesday next week."
"If you have a bad game you just move on, you look forward to the next one, and it makes you that much more determined," he said, comparing the political face-off to a sports game.
Asked by Sawyer whether it's possible that his poor showing had handed Romney the election, Obama replied, "no."
"You're going to win?" she asked.
"Yes," Obama said.
"You want it more than the first time?" she pressed, noting that some Democrats have questioned whether he remains sufficiently passionate and relentless.
"Absolutely," he said.
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Bring it on, little turd. Let’s see you overreach, again. You don’t have the mental concentration to focus for 90 minutes unless it’s a Beyonce concert.
He will study on the Par 5 15th.
Pray for America
So he’s gonna act like a arrogant jerk? That ought to help.
I think a key component of the “upset” were the facts and the record. The facts and the record haven’t changed in Obama’s favor. You could make the case, with further revelations regarding the Libyan disaster, things are even worse for Obama than they were. It’s a fairly easy case for Romney to prosecute.
Romney doesn’t have a chance.
barry’s going to be aggressive.....he will bring big bird, elmo and a teleprompter, and a multitude of lies.
blessings, bobo
I don't think Romney has to be brilliant- just capable.
The left tried to define him as some ruthless business man who cared nothing about people in the lower classes. But he didn't really look like a genius in that first debate, just a thoughtful and engaged guy.
All he has to do is come across as someone who is listening and has a good grasp of the issues, and who can communicate effectively.
Those Town Hall questions are almost always softballs, so swinging for the fences usually doesn't work very well. Romney just has to be positive and he'll hold his own.
Mitt could open with “Just so you know it’s the real me....here’s my driver’s license. And my birth certificate. “
The Libyagate scandal may embarrass Obama and expose him before the debate next week. Ryan could get the ball rolling tomorrow night.
Romney will walk off stage uttering quietly... “Puny god.” As Obama lays there gasping.
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The Bam’s just talkin’ smack. Mitt’s got the truth on his side. Prepare for another ass-kicking more brutal than the first.
I was just watching some MSNBS online at a site that has a chat feature.
My handle was reallystupidlibtard btw haha.
Anyhow, the libs kept repeating to each other how Romney lied and he cheated, huh?, during the debates.
Weirdly entertaining and at the same time disturbing.
As the saying goes - when your enemy is making a mistake, let him.
So, this idiot tells Romney his debate strategy BEFORE the debate? Real smart. Now Romney can prepare for an “aggressive” Obama.
He must think he is going to get the answers in advance of the debate.
Probably while in college, he got the A, when he didn’t deserve it.
"Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the worlds believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." - See "Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785," in Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: The Library of America, 1984), pp. 814-815.
On another thread today the author of an article there said that such a person must be listened to with a "skeptical ear." Those words prompted my memory of Jefferson's wise advice to the young Peter Carr.
Tens of millions now are listening to the utterings of this President with a "skeptical ear," as they have seen with their own eyes and heard with their own ears and felt in their own families the consequences of broken promises, empty words, and a false ideology as old as mankind itself--an ideology which substitutes itself and its wisdom for the Creator and "Sovereign Ruler of the Universe" (Madison) whose Divine Providence was said by America's Founders to be the source of life, liberty, and rights.
The little lies are merely part and parcel, and essential support, to the "big lie" which exists when men of arrogance substitute accumulation of coercive power for themselves for adherence to the principles of liberty underlying America's Constitution and its limitations on them.
Had so-called "progressives" not practiced decades of censorship of those ideas of liberty from textbooks and public discourse by their own dishonest methods, resulting in an electorate which could be fooled by the chicanery of "hope and change," with its accompanying denigration of the Constitution, America might have been spared from the consequences of 2008.
The President is correct: elections have consequences!
Technology makes it possible to rediscover almost every word the Founders wrote and spoke publicly, and measure the words of the redistributionist enslavers against the "self-evident" truth upon which our liberty was obtained.
Remember how Al Gore acted in the Bush/Gore debates in 2000. First he was using every high school debate tactic, like sighing throughout Bush's answers. Then in the second debate his handlers said he came off too aggressive, so they shot him up with Thorazine and he acted like he was falling asleep. In the end it all came down to, he couldn't reveal his true positions because the voters would drop him like a bad habit. President Eye Candy is in the same fix, he doesn't dare tell you what a 2nd 0bama term would really be like or you'll want no part of it. He just has to keep the masses fooled till after the election.
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