Roughly thirty minutes into this debate...you could see moments of frustration on the President’s face and he probably wanted a end to this debate by the 60-minute point. It might have been better if Lehrer had held more “control” over two....but I thought that Lehrer gave a four-star presentation as moderator...fair to both guys.
I still haven’t seen the whole debate, but I really got the feeling he just wanted to close and walk off the stage. Seriously.
Ever since he’s been President he has had that option. If he doesn’t like the question, he ignores it. If he gets bored, he just turns on his heel and walks away. This time, for the first time, he was on the hot-seat with no way to escape, no TelePrompTer to guide him, no way to escape the camera, and it showed.
He just plain sucked. Worse, he knew it. And Michelle is not going to be pleased.