LynneSin (88,246 posts)
Obama did brilliantly last night at the debate
We need to recognize that Obama will never be one of those Debate champions that just blows us away with orating brilliancy. That's Joe Biden's forte and I think we'll see the gloves come off in that debate.
Obama is a master chess player that has his moves planned about 10 steps ahead and last night Romney fell into Obama's trap.
It isn't the 90 minutes that two candidates stand on stage debating the issues that determine who is the 'winner'.
It's the 3-4 days afterwards when the press does their job (well most of them - we expect Faux News to slack) tear apart the debate details and fact check them to the public.
Here's a scoop - you cannot debate a person who relies on made up facts and lies to win their point. But you win the debate by allowing that person to spew out all their misinformation and let the critics decide who knew their subject matter the best. He's like that old SNL character that Jon Lovitz use to do of a pathological liar. In the end I half expected for MItt to say 'Yeah that's the ticket'
The fact that Romney is still touting that '$700bil+ so-called "RAID" of Medicare' is a joke. Especially since the idea was first found in the Ryan budget as a way to clean up fraud and excessive paperwork in the system.
They say you know when a junkie is lying - they move their lips. Last night we saw the ultimate junkie on display at the debate and the moment his lips started moving we knew the guy was lying and that person was Mitt Romney.
Obama didn't have to go for the kill - he just laid the rope out there and let Mitt do it to himself.
Edit NOTE: To clarify things I did sleep thru part of it. Was sick yesterday but what I missed I followed up with on the news.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021467736
Lots of funnies in this post:
-- Obama did brilliantly last night at the debate
-- Obama will never be one of those Debate champions that just blows us away with orating brilliancy. That's
Joe Biden's forte
-- Obama is a master chess player
But here's what prompted the thread topic:
It's the 3-4 days afterwards when the press does their job tear apart the debate details and fact check them to the public.
IOW, the MSM will do their part of being the the tank for Dear Leader and try to make it seem like what you saw with your own eyes and heard with your own ears was not really what you saw and heard.
Would the commie primitive admit that's what she meant? No, but it is what she just admitted.
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