By Ralph Schwartz
I didn’t watch the first presidential debate last night, so to say I’m chipping in my two cents here is overselling it.
I did read a lot of the opinions of the political watchers since the debate ended. While Romney may not have scored a knockout, he at least won by unanimous decision. (The sports analogy, especially boxing, was popular in the wake of the debate.)
The blog post in the link above was written by David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and a liberal. As Remnick exemplified, it wasn’t only the right-wing media that was piling on the president after his shaky performance last night. Even the Obama-hugging liberal media couldn’t avoid the truth:
“(Obama) has myriad skills as a thinker, as a speaker, and as a President. But this episodic unwillingness to connect, to show up, while entirely human, puts him in peril,” Remnick said in the above blog post.
This morning, Obama reportedly got his jabs in against Romney, albeit 12 hours too late. He had some good zingers for his challenger in a campaign appearance in Colorado.
I’ll be interested to see how the polls react. Some outside the media say the debate only caused a big shift in opinion among the pundits, that voters won’t respond to Romney’s debate win. I’ll check back in early next week, after finding out whether Romney gained any ground.
Obama attempted to defend his indefensible policies, which have not worked in his first four years, with sound bites from old speeches and accusations against Romney, that his policies would not be any better. It came off sounding flat and impotent.
Obama stayed away from his strongest worded justifications of his policies, perhaps to avoid sounding divisive and antagonistic. Instead he came across sounding weak and inept. I have to wonder what is going to happen in the foreign policy debate.
President Obama on substance.
Long ago Gov. Romney on style
Jim Leher got run over early on and lost control of the event.
Lol, Ralph, you’ve written an article about a debate you didn’t watch on a blog you don’t like because it’s anonymous!
“….In prehistoric times, a king often served only as long as his powers demonstrably remained potent. If hard times came to the tribe (or even he stayed around too long — some kings reigned only a year), he was sacrificed to propitiate the gods and to make way for the new king. While the past is another country, we haven’t changed as much as we’d like to think. A leader who fails can still be tossed into the gutter without a second thought by the very same people who were cheering madly only days before. Think of Mussolini hanging by his heels. Or of Winston Churchill, dismissed by the voters at his very peak moment — his victory over fascism — in one of the most colossal (and wrongheaded, as events were on to show) acts of ingratitude ever carried out by a democratic vote. Il Duce must have been laughing in Hell.
(A perfect fictional example can be found in John Huston’s film version of Kipling’s The Man Who Would be King, in which Danny [Sean Connery], a British soldier taken by backwoods Afghan tribesmen to be a god, is proven all too mortal when his terrified native bride draws blood from him. He is then dragged out and tossed into an abyss, falling, so his unfortunate partner [Michael Caine] puts it, “for miles and miles.” This picture ought to be required viewing for anyone vying for national leadership.)…
…..That’s the Obama story. We will see how it plays out over the coming weeks.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/barack_obama_and_the_mandate_of_heaven.html#ixzz28OAfwMUz
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Debate?
Does not matter now 7.8% same rate as it was when he took over. Good night Mitt!!!!!
Jack Welch
✔@jack_welch Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers”
“…Today’s jobs report is a classic. The report, of course, reveals the results of two surveys, one of households, one of establishments. The professional economists and the press usually emphasize the establishment survey because it is viewed as less volatile. The establishment survey was terrible. The 114,000 number of jobs created on net in September is well below the average for this year (146,000) and the average for last year (153,000). This is wholly consistent with the story that the economy is decelerating sharply as we head into the fall. …
…Keep an eye on the U-6 measure of unemployment and underemployment, as Chris Cuomo insisted on Twitter this morning. That’s not budging from the 14%-15% range in which it has been for the last three-plus years…..
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/05/scarborough-somethings-awfully-odd-about-this-job-report/
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A Japanese take on the debates!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNhUI8ktHuw&feature=player_embedded
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For those who missed the debate; the condensed version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QlwilbVYvUg#!
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