Posted on 10/04/2012 7:06:37 AM PDT by Qbert
CNN's Jessica Yellin speaks to Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter about the hits and misses of the first presidential debate.
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JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Candy. I'm here with Stephanie Cutter, who is the deputy campaign manager for the Obama campaign, and was also a staffer inside the White House. You know the president well. And, Stephanie, let me just ask you, plainly, where was the passion we see on the campaign trail from the president? Why wasn't it there tonight?
STEPHANIE CUTTER, OBAMA DEPUTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Well, you know, I think we came here with a specific purpose, and we told everybody what that purpose was, was to have a conversation with voters about his specific plans to move this country forward, and he did that tonight. And I think he scored points on his balanced deficit reduction plan and how he would do it. Holding Wall Street accountable and how he would do it. His health reform plan.
And I think that Mitt Romney, yes, he absolutely wins the preparation. And he wins the style points. But that's not what has been dogging his campaign. What has been dogging his campaign are the policies that he doubled down on tonight. You know, let's talk about his tax cut. You know, they signaled over the course of the last several days, they put out details of how they would pay for it. They didn't put out details...
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"And I think that Mitt Romney, yes, he absolutely wins the preparation. And he wins the style points..."
In addition to winning everything else.
You know Romney killed the Marxist when the spinners can’t even come up with any legitimate spin. One can imagine their horror watching their Chosen Leader fall on his face last night while Romney hit for the cycle.
She’s essentially saying, “Obama’s strategy was to get his a** kicked and he performed flawlessly.”
Their candidate won by mouthing slogans like hopenchange and yeswecan and advocating a program delivering "health care" without uttering a single syllable of details. Upon election, this same empty suit/chair took exactly zero part in constructing the "obamacare" bill, yet takes full credit for it (never having read it, he has no idea of the scope or the costs).
"One can imagine their horror watching their Chosen Leader fall on his face last night while Romney hit for the cycle."
Yep. Now she's lashing out at Jim Lehrer for not doing enough to interrupt Romney while he was making salient points.
“In debate last night, Obama finishes in second, Romney comes in next to last.”
Who prepped Romney?
Portman. He also prepped McLame. Big difference, huh?
--AND--
..."accidentally" ran right into a right cross...
...17 TIMES
“style points” was another mantra I just heard from another female Obamabot: his “traveling press secretary”, a pale redhead who was just interviewed in Denver, where she complained also about how cold it was. You will hear “style
points” over the next few days, until they’re sure it’s sunk in enough.
"This libdem meme of "short on details" regarding Romney is just so precious..."
Exactly. It's hysterical. We have a president who comes up with a mere hazy outline of a budget... which gets unanimously shot down by both parties, 97-0; the leader of the party which hasn't passed a budget in over a thousand days...
Not to mention, a POTUS who doesn't want to give the details about his plans for our nukes and Russia, Israel and Iran, what really happened with the Benghazi fiasco, defense contractor layoffs, and on and on until... "after the election"....
"“style points” was another mantra I just heard from another female Obamabot: his “traveling press secretary”, a pale redhead who was just interviewed in Denver, where she complained also about how cold it was. You will hear “style points” over the next few days, until they’re sure it’s sunk in enough."
Yep. And Greg Sargent, unofficial Obama spokesmuppet at the WaPo, and the rest of the minions got the morning call from Axelrod with another new meme to downplay the effect of debates on elections and to claim that Romney didn't do "enough" to minimize the "supposed gap", blah, blah, blah...
(I don't even think the hardcore leftists believe this in their hearts though after Obama, by their own admittance, got creamed).
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