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Romney won the presidential debate by looking presidential. Obama had a painful...
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 10/21/12 | Tim Stanley

Posted on 10/22/2012 9:57:32 PM PDT by Justaham

Original title: Romney won the presidential debate by looking presidential. Obama had a painful case of Biden's smile
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Romney won the third presidential debate – and how he did it was encapsulated in a single exchange. The candidates were discussing military spending and Romney had just accused Obama of making harmful cutbacks. The President wheeled out what must have seemed like a great, pre-planned zinger: “I think Governor Romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military works. You mentioned the navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military's changed.” The audience laughed, Obama laughed, I laughed. It was funny.

But here’s why it was also a vote loser. For a start, Twitter immediately lit up with examples of how the US Army does still use horses and bayonets (horses were used during the invasion of Afghanistan). More importantly, this was one example of many in which the President insulted, patronised and mocked his opponent rather than put across a constructive argument. His performance was rude and unpresidential. Obama seemed to have a touch of the Bidens, wriggling about in his chair, waving his hands dismissively and always – always – smirking in Romney’s direction. By contrast, Romney sucked up the abuse and retained a rigid poker face all night. He looked like a Commander in Chief; Obama looked like a lawyer. Who would you rather vote for?

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 10/22/2012 9:57:40 PM PDT by Justaham
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To: Justaham

Barry reminded me of an angry Chicago community organizer.


2 posted on 10/22/2012 10:01:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Get the transcript Candy! - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Justaham

Obama had a painful...for Bob Schieffer which won’t subside for another 3 hours. Please call his doctor.


3 posted on 10/22/2012 10:02:18 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: Justaham
Everything else aside, Romney's expression is far from a poker face; he always appears to be wincing, like someone watching a sliver removed...
4 posted on 10/22/2012 10:02:26 PM PDT by stormer
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To: Justaham

I happen to agree.

I thought the “horses and bayonets” was lame. And Obama looked like he couldn’t treat his opponent with respect.

Romney looked presidential, graceful and never once got flustered.

If body language communicated anything - one person will be our next President tonight.

His name is Mitt Williard Romney.


5 posted on 10/22/2012 10:03:03 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Justaham

As someone else pointed out, Obama has now had all three debates in which he has failed to outline a second-term strategy, policy or plan. He no longer has any chance to do so.

And as Romney said: “Attacking me is not a policy.”


6 posted on 10/22/2012 10:05:15 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Justaham
The MSM consensus is in..[Obama's] performance was rude and unpresidential. MSM employees across the Nation get the sad news..


7 posted on 10/22/2012 10:06:09 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Justaham

One of Romney’s best arguments was the line “Attacking me is not a policy”. It was a slap in Obamas face and a reminder to the folks at home that this is about real lives, real jobs, and their children’s future - not about “debate points”.

Romney painted a very solid big-picture view and was Presidential. Obama attacked and rambled on about small things, like his usual litany of “wind, solar, and biofuels” and “lithium batteries”, “more teachers”, and “green jobs”. All of which are either the domain of private business, local government, or pure fantasy.

And while Obama wanted to challenge facts, the fact is, Romney was right about sequester, status of forces agreement, and his condescending BS about bayonets and submarines.

Obama was wrong, is wrong, and in another 2 weeks, will be out of a job.


8 posted on 10/22/2012 10:06:49 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: goldstategop

I’m voting for Willard Mitt Romney...


9 posted on 10/22/2012 10:09:22 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
One thing you shoud remember, it does not make a nickel’s worth of difference who is elected. Our country is so in debt, we cannot even pay the interest on the debt. Our only solution according to the PTB is to print more worthless money. Every dollar they print devalues the dollars you have in your wallet. The day of reckoning will come no matter who is elected.
10 posted on 10/22/2012 10:12:25 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 ( 1 retarded man is a pity, two retarded men are a law practice and three are a congress)
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To: Justaham

I swear Obama was trying some form of Hawaiian Islands “stink eye” or something, its a particular evil eye given to someone, I may be wrong but thats what I have heard.


11 posted on 10/22/2012 10:14:25 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (OPSEC)
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To: BooBoo1000

Disagree. Think federal judges and US Supreme Court nominees. Obama’s two appointments: Kagan and Sotomayor are terrible.


12 posted on 10/22/2012 10:17:11 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Justaham
Good synopsis

Obama's silly lecture lacked substance, like a child calling someone names, Obama had nothing intellegent to say, just a lot of criticism of Romney

13 posted on 10/22/2012 10:22:21 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: Justaham

“Horse Soldiers”

Excellent Read about the use of horses in Afghanistan.


14 posted on 10/22/2012 10:23:33 PM PDT by onona (If it is to be, it begins with me.)
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To: Eye of Unk

I agree. He was really giving Romney some super odd looks. Somewhere between mad and mocking, and yet mostly just goofy looking smirks.

He’d also look back and forth, and blinked a lot. Nixon used to blink a lot.


15 posted on 10/22/2012 10:24:28 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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Petulant jackass.


16 posted on 10/22/2012 10:28:45 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Justaham; a fool in paradise

What for me was most noticeable about Obama in these debates was how all-American and patriotic he attempted to appear. No talk about the Constitution being a flawed document, no references to past injustices (unless I missed something), no indications of his real views which he revealed in his books and in 2008. All false, needless to say, and the people who call themselves “Progressives” must have noticed, and winked to one another - he’s fooling them again on the road to socialist Utopia.


17 posted on 10/22/2012 10:30:22 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: BooBoo1000
RE: "Every dollar they print devalues the dollars you have in your wallet. The day of reckoning will come no matter who is elected."

I know. I remember when it happened the last time.

I believe that our W.W.II debt was paid off with the help of inflation.. I remember back then when a loaf of bread was $0.25, a hair cut $0.75, and a cold glass bottle of Coca-Cola out of a machine was a nickel -- and just today I saw an ad for a 2013 VW Beetle lease: $1,999 up front and $299 / month. In 1968 I bought a brand new VW beetle for $1,999!

We'll survive.. unless things get out of hand like in the Weimar Republic. :)

18 posted on 10/22/2012 10:35:40 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Justaham

Bamma tried to hold an over-rehearsed ‘evil-eye stare’ but came across just looking Punky.

His trainers clearly fed him peanuts to reinforce his pseudo-steady stare in a belated attempt to compensate for his grossly stultified first debate (lack of) performance ....

Bamma, you are a punky Punk Putz - so there!


19 posted on 10/22/2012 10:38:06 PM PDT by dodger
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To: goldstategop

its Willard Mitt Romney


20 posted on 10/22/2012 10:44:53 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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