Mark Steyn's Debate Reaction

Hugh Hewitt ^ | October 5, 2012 | Hugh Hewitt

[thecodont]

Thanks for posting this!

[Cincinna]

The best comment on Obama finally responding to Romney’s challenges 14 hours after the fact has to be this:

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza summed it up nicely in a tweet: “Obama hitting back today at all of Romney’s attacks last night is the ultimate Costanza ‘jerk store’ moment.” (If you don’t understand the reference, you can watch the relevant ”Seinfeld” clip on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwfioD-ING8
And you’ll know things have really gotten bad for Obama if he tries the Kramer gambit after the next debate.)

[varmintman]

Agincourt is not a bad analogy, the French basically charged into a funnel-shaped field so that even had there been no English there at all and the French knights been required only to plant their lances in straw targets, half of them would have died.

[NonValueAdded]

tagline update.

[spokeshave]

And for the first time in his life, he’s got a four year albatross round his neck. And when Romney said hey, man, look, you’ve been president for four years…

A four year albatross around the neck Alex...?

I think I will take the 20 years in Rev Wright's church for $1000 Alex

[Bullish]

Job one for all good Americans is to cut Obama loose. Let him go back to Chicago or Hawaii, go write books, do lectures, whatever, but he should never be trusted with a bit of power again for the rest of his life.

[JCBreckenridge]

Hahaha, “Jerkstore”.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

BTTT!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

BTTT!

[Neidermeyer]

Agincourt = Cowpens?

[islander-11]

Thanks for posting this. Mark Steyn is one of my favorites.

[varmintman]

“Cow” in French is ‘beuf’ more or less so I don’t see how ‘Agincourt’ has anything to do with cattle, I think it’s just a name of a nearby church...

[JusPasenThru]

I think this is a “Patriot” reference, you know, when Mel Gibson kicked the British asses.

[9YearLurker]

Cow in French is ‘la vache’.

[HannibalHamlinJr]

Hew Hewitt:

“Now President Obama seemed as unprepared for these debates as he was for the presidency.”

Great line.

[samtheman]

This is an excellent conversation between two excellent intellects.

[Joe 6-pack]

I think Neidermeyer is referring to the Battle of Cowpens, a classic reverse slope defense in the War for Independence...which is actually, IMHO, a better analogy for this debate.

The final battle in the film The Patriot was loosely based on Cowpens, in which an overconfident and hubristic British force was met by mostly militia who feigned a retreat. The British pursued over a small hill only to find themselves facing a line of waiting regulars.

Similarly, a hubristic Obama arrived in Denver fully expecting to carry the day, and was met by overwhelming resistance he did not expect to find there.

[samtheman]

One thing that’s left out of the discussion of this issue is any mention of life-time substance abuse.

Obama is a heavy life-time pot smoker and who-knows-how-much cocaine user.

Biden is the town drunk.

You can’t engage in those kinds of activities for long periods of time and then compete well in the highly competitive arena of national political debates.

You just can’t.

[B212]

and for certain, up against a Mormon, who never, smoked anything, and never, so much as sat near a bottle of wine.... who has 5 sons to his credit....