Posted on 10/04/2012 8:06:51 AM PDT by Smokeyblue
Reeling from a debate performance where President Obama often seemed listless and subdued relative to his Republican opponent, the Obama campaign's top strategist said Thursday they would more aggressively challenge Mitt Romney on alleged inconsistencies in his policies.
"You know, you can't tell the American people up is down and down is up and ignore your history and ignore your statements," Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Thursday on MSNBC. "You can't square the circle, and Gov. Romney is going to be held accountable for that."
Axelrod went on to accuse Romney of playing "a shell game" at the debate and said the Republican nominee deserved "an 'F' for being honest with the American people."
In an earlier interview on NBC's "Today Show," Axelrod added that the president was "looking very much forward" to his next chance to debate Romney on Oct. 16.
"I know this, he will come, he will make an honest argument with the American people about how to rebuild the economy and the middle class and he'll hold Gov. Romney to account for these big gaps in the truth we saw last night," Axelrod said.
But Obama's longtime political strategist did seem to concede that the president had been bested, at least on style, in Wednesday night's pivotal showdown with his Republican challenger.
"I joked that Mitt Romney put more preparation into it than they did into the invasion in Normandy and you saw last night," Axelrod said. "I expected a strong performance, got a strong performance, but that's what it was — a performance."
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The next debate is not just foreign policy. It is both Foreign and domestic policy. It’s format is where the people in the audience ask the questions. The third debate will be on just foreign policy, and the format will go back to the formula used in the first debate. With one moderator asking the questions.
Well...I think he may have...he sounded as though he was talking on delay for most of the debate...like he was listening for words. I know, that’s kind of how he is off teleprompter, but it makes the case there may be an implanted device. FWIW
He started out by telling everyone to ignore the past few years and focus on the future. this was after he spent the last four years blaming everything on the previous eight years..
No Axlerod, you can’t make something from nothing and yelling a lie is not going to make it more believable.
It would not surprise me to see Obama using such bombing as an excuse to miss the rest of the debates.....
okay. thanks
AT least the third debate if thats the foreign policy one
nobama will hopefully resign in the middle of the next debate, asking for a plea bargain that will keep him (and his oafish clown-wife) out of Leavenworth. You saw it here first.
Obama went to the beach in a pair of old swim trunks that went down to his knees. He walked up to the lifeguard and asked why the girls weren't swooning over him.
The lifeguard replied "It's your swim trunks, man. You need to wear a pair of short Speedos, and put a potato in them."
So, Obama bought a new pair of Speedos, placed a potato in them, and walked the beach. Only, now the girls were snickering.
Going back to the lifeguard, he said (Well, I bought the Speedos, got the potato, and now they're snickering. What's wrong?"
The lifeguard said "The potato needs to be in the front!"
His monster is loose in the village without a teleprompter, and Dr. Frankenstein is not happy.
Or, maybe his "binky".
Maybe Michelle will give him cues like they do in baseball.
Not only did he look lost out there, he also seemed to have a Nixonian makeup artist. Looks like his hair has been recently dyed with just enough gray at the temples - no doubt for "gravitas"!
HA, HA!
Then, HRC's sharpened talons would be stretched and aimed toward BHO.
Obama: "What to do, what to do."
I'm so bad - I ate club crackers with the dogs - and for the first time in a while - I felt Schadenfreude.
Big baby.
HA, PYTHON!
In the next debate, Obama will not be debating Romney, he will be debating Obama from the first debate.
-PJ
In the next debate, Obama will not be debating Romney, he will be debating Obama from the first debate.
Recall how Al Gore huffed and puffed and sighed through his first debate with George Bush. Recall how in the second debate, Gore was the opposite of his behavior in the first debate. Gore was demure and passive. He wasn't debating Bush, he was debating against his prior performance.
That's what is going to happen to Obama in the next debate.
-PJ
Maybe he will throw up on the stage - twice - like Justin Bieber recently did...
HA, HA! Potato in the back! HE, HE!
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