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* He’s not used to being challenged: For all of the chatter that President Obama loves to surround himself with people willing to disagree with him, the truth of the matter is that being the leader of the free world means that what you say goes pretty much all the time. ...................It's called the dictator syndrome.
1 posted on 10/04/2012 12:11:55 PM PDT by mandaladon
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Theories abound

My theory is: cocaine.
Okay, maybe Xanax or some other prescription medication.

This morning Obama is upbeat and bubbling with enthusiasm.
Last night he was flat, deflated, disinterested.

29 posted on 10/04/2012 12:24:41 PM PDT by oldbrowser (An empty chair attracts a stadium full of empty chairs.)
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Obama was unprepared last night. Is anyone surprised? He was unprepared when he took the oath of office and he has remained so for four years. Oh, did I mention that he is also lazy.


30 posted on 10/04/2012 12:24:41 PM PDT by Saltmeat
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I have a slightly different take. I think in 2008 Obama actually believed the hype, he really thought he was a messianic figure that was going to save the planet, usher in a new utopia and be loved and adored by the masses. Well, not only did he fail, he failed miserably. The man I saw up on stage, looking at the floor droning on in a monotone was someone that knows he is a failure, has little self confidence and is just “going through the motions”.
31 posted on 10/04/2012 12:24:51 PM PDT by apillar
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I live in Colorado at 7,700 feet. Pro football teams learned long ago to come into Denver right before their games as the effects are felt less at first and much more a day or two later. Obama flew in just hours before the debate so altitude was not his problem.

Obama is weak when challenged directly, that’s all. Everyone has been afraid to challenge him due to the race baiting. Romney challenged him without looking racist, and that defense is now gone.


32 posted on 10/04/2012 12:25:12 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....The days are long, but the years are short.....)
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Axelrod can ‘polish’ zero’s style all he wants. The truth is that without his teleprompter and MSM zero cannot defend the indefensible. Zero lacks substance.


35 posted on 10/04/2012 12:26:14 PM PDT by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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When you say “bad” you don’t mean in a good way,right?


36 posted on 10/04/2012 12:27:06 PM PDT by Leep (Forward! To Surfdom)
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obama is a slacker and a skater and has never earned anything in his entire life. He is below average in intelligence but he is evil, devious and cunning. He was not “out of character"... his character was on display last night and it was flawed and low class.

LLS

38 posted on 10/04/2012 12:27:30 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("If it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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I personally have never thought him to be a particularly good speaker. Compared to Bush or McCain sure, but only only TotUS. Off TotUS, he’s a blithering idiot.


41 posted on 10/04/2012 12:28:02 PM PDT by mykroar (October race/religious riots bring November martial law. Voting postponed for your safety.)
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He wasn't especially bad. He was the same as he was during the debates with Hillary, its the media that fell in love and swept him into their arms and into the White House where they have kept him till they were hit with a reality bomb.

Love is blind. Sorry, America.

44 posted on 10/04/2012 12:28:47 PM PDT by Deb (If you wanna laugh everyday, follow Deepak Chopra on Twitter)
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First, Romney must be made to bow down to Obama because after all Obama is the President and Romney is merely a (former) Governor.

Second, Obama needs more time than Romney. This is because Obama, being a creatively gifted, right-lobed man, tends to say “um” and “ugh,” as his unprecedented genius gathers all the relevant information and carefully constructs the proper, nuanced and balanced response.

Third, Romney shouldn’t be allowed to use “facts.” Anybody can look up facts, nowadays. Therefore, knowledge of facts does not qualify anybody to be President. What is important isn’t what the facts are, but how you feel the facts should be.

Fourth and most importantly, nobody should ever “correct” the President. This might undermine the authority of the office. Ordinary people might think that the President is himself an ordinary person and not their better. How, then, could the government “ask” the people to take advantage of the opportunities it offers them to serve others through military conscription, forced “voluntary service,” and the patriotic duty to pay taxes?


47 posted on 10/04/2012 12:30:59 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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Navy corpsemen. Your Honor, I rest my case.


48 posted on 10/04/2012 12:31:26 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (Obama A man without an American mission.)
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I really think most are over analyzing this. The debate last night showed Obama, the genuine article. It wasn't that he had a bad night, that was Obama. Simply put, Obama is nothing more than a Marxist Poly Sci. grad student.

All he did last night was fall back into weakly constructed philosophical arguments. That's all he had because that's who he is. A Marxist true believer who has gotten by in life and has been resolutely protected by a fawning, corrupt MSM. Obama was simply unmasked last night.

50 posted on 10/04/2012 12:32:24 PM PDT by Obadiah (The corrupt MSM is the enemy of the American people.)
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The media is in the middle of a psychotic break.

They were willing accomplices in the creation of the 0bama myth, and like 0bama himself they came to believe that myth was a reality. One of the central tenets of that fabrication was that 0bama was untouchable, unflappable, invincible.

Now they are faced with the disintegration of their delusional belief system.

But another aspect of this that too few people have understood is how much last night's debate was like the first Carter/Reagan debate -- not for the media, but for ordinary Americans. If you were alive then, you know that despite Carter's dismal performance in all areas, foreign and domestic, the race was still close. Then the American people got to see Ronald Reagan as he was, without the distortion of the media's lens. He wasn't a crazy person, a dimwit, an extremist or a bomb-thrower. He was a charming man of humility, intelligence, humor and common sense.

Some of us knew Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan was a friend of ours; and Mitt Romney is no Ronald Reagan. But he is not the bumbling imbecile that the media has so far been able to portray him as. Last night people got to hear Mitt Romney without the braying of the jackasses in the collaborationist press.

And that is going to have far more serious consequences for Barack 0bama than his own abysmal debate performance.

52 posted on 10/04/2012 12:32:51 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And that's the end of our show! Doink.)
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Obama has always been a disengaged president. That showed last night during the debate.

When Romney answered, you could tell that he was drawing upon years of experience and knowledge.

When Obama answered, you could tell that he was repeating rehearsed talking points.

Romney was able to further each topic with additional examples and facts.

Obama would quickly run out of memorized talking points and would start repeating himself. He doesn't have the deep well of personal experience to draw from.

After the third time that Obama tried to say that Romney would raise the debt by $5 trillion and Romney shut him down for a third time saying "Stop saying that," you could hear Obama mutter "Okay."

Obama looked like a man who only attended two Cabinet meetings in 2012, and skipped 2/3rds of his daily briefings.

-PJ

55 posted on 10/04/2012 12:34:59 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( It doesn't I naturally when you're not natural born.)
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“Why was President Obama so bad?”

He has accomplished nothing, zero, zilch, nada. Coupled that with the fact that he is not truthful and is a Marxist /socialist>


57 posted on 10/04/2012 12:37:05 PM PDT by kenmcg (t)
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Why was President Obama so bad?

1. He lies.

2. He hates God.

3. He took the Sacred Oath of Office and forced God to witness to his lie.

4. He cursed himself.

5. He got the democratic party to remove both Israel and any reference to God in the platform.

6. His people verbally denied God three times in the face of the world with no remorse.

It would be safe to say that God is in the process of removing any support Obama may have had because of his office.

58 posted on 10/04/2012 12:37:45 PM PDT by Slyfox
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It turns out he's still not quite ready to remove the training wheels just yet. It happens. (Look for DU to start suggesting Obama use a Bush-brand in-ear device so Chris Matthews can help him during the next debate.)
59 posted on 10/04/2012 12:37:56 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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“Why was [ ] Obama so bad?”

In part because he is a white hating -country wrecking - constitution destroying - lying socialist - homosexual loving - corrupt organized crime boss - anti-American - incompetent epic failure - arrogant Black muslim bastard son of a communist whore.

I hope he feels my love.


62 posted on 10/04/2012 12:38:45 PM PDT by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Ryan and the other guy.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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In Canada, the party leaders debate each other in Parliament hundreds (or thousands) of times between elections. They hone debating skills to a lethal edge (in two official languages). Also, they really get to know their opponents: their strengths and weaknesses; where their buttons are, and how to push them.


66 posted on 10/04/2012 12:41:28 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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So many people keep saying about Obama “The emperor has no clothes”. The truth is “The clothes have no emperor”.
69 posted on 10/04/2012 12:44:51 PM PDT by Cindy of Nashville (What has the Democrat party become???)
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