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To: ETL
When the evening ended, I was struck by a different thought: If Obama had performed this way at the first debate, the election would have been over.

Sorry, this is a "non sequitur" (it does not follow) fallacy and the younger Jeff Greenfield (when he was intelligent) would not have made it.

What we forget at this 2 week remove from the 1st Presidential Debate is that it was as much Romney dispelling the stereotype hammered by the 4 months of Obama attacks as it was Obama's lackluster performance. The media meme going in was that Obama had already won and he could just smile and there would be a halo over his head. Instead an engaged and obviously capable Romney showed that he did not eat babies nor did he have a pitchfork & tail.

Obama could have been just like he was last night and still fallen short as his opponent, unlike the McCain punching bag of 2008, demonstrated that all of the negative ads were false and misleading. Yes the combination of the two extremes that did show in that debate were striking but to take only Obama's failure is to ignore Romney's real accomplishment.

Personally, I think this is the establishment left's start of a new explanation on how the 2012 election is/was lost. It was Obama's failure, not Romney's success. While there is real truth to this, the focus on just the debate failure loses sight of the 4 year failure as well as the extreme campaign advertising failures from May to September that painted Romney as Gordon Gekko.

46 posted on 10/17/2012 5:54:16 AM PDT by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence!)
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the producers at FNF must be homosexuals. They have a log cabin homosexual pushing the homos is just people because marriage was not discussed.

The MSM is too stupid to reaize Romney said Moms and Dads, not generic “parents” (yes he did say parents but he prefaced it)

It is a tip to marriage and children need a mother and father and that is what marriage is made of.


47 posted on 10/17/2012 6:01:43 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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