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Robert Reich: Romney Will Beat 'Wooden' Obama in Presidential Debates
Newsmax ^ | August 25, 2012 | Newsmax Wires

Posted on 08/24/2012 6:11:26 PM PDT by RobinMasters

Mitt Romney has turned into such a skilled debater that he could trounce President Barack Obama in their three head-to-head encounters in the run-up to the election, former Democratic Labor Secretary Robert Reich believes.

Romney “is going to be debating somebody who is not nearly as good a debater as his reputation,” Reich tells Atlantic Magazine in its September issue. He says that under live questioning, Obama “can seem kind of wooden” and “at a loss for words.”

“Even if Romney is scripted and not spontaneous, he will come across as ‘on his game,’ ” Reich tells the Atlantic. “The danger for Obama is that Romney can still look better than Obama, if Obama does not have the same degree of discipline about the debates.”

Reich, now Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, was quoted in an extensive article in the Atlantic by its longtime national correspondent, James Fallows. The magazine’s report was based on an examination of tapes of Romney’s debates throughout his political career.

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To: DoughtyOne

Smartest man in the room - unless Biden is there too..


41 posted on 08/25/2012 2:43:16 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: trebb

I pretty much agree, but I’m going to have fun anyway. ;^)

Hey Biden is twice the man Reich is. LITERALLY!!!

Reich is very short. His big goal in life was to make five feet. He failed. He’s 4’ 10” tall. Height isn’t a big deal to me, but it fits his stature. He’s a little man, and I use that term loosely.


42 posted on 08/25/2012 3:01:51 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Americans want what Americans always wanted: Better lives for families; little government authority.)
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To: RobinMasters

Shorty is right but the republicans will allow all the lefty so called commentators to control the debate, throw hard balls at romney and flowers at zero


43 posted on 08/25/2012 4:27:29 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (BB)
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To: RobinMasters

Has the obamamedia declared Barak the winner yet?

Pray for America


44 posted on 08/25/2012 6:45:50 AM PDT by bray (The Gummit didn't make my business, God did!)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Of course you’re right, but for a moment I thought another Clintonista was putting a dagger in dear leader.


45 posted on 08/25/2012 7:33:12 AM PDT by ntnychik
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To: RobinMasters

After Gov Palin’s endorsement of Romney, he should somehow bungle through to the presidency...


46 posted on 08/25/2012 7:23:32 PM PDT by SarahPalinForPresident2012 (Time to Reload)
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47 posted on 08/25/2012 7:27:42 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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