Obama retooling for next debate: Williamsburg debate camp

[BlueStateSaint]

The Obamessiah's minions are sending him to debate camp!

Obama retooling for next debate: Williamsburg debate camp

By Lynn Sweet on October 5, 2012 10:00 AM| No Comments

DENVER -- President Barack Obama is retooling after getting thumped by Mitt Romney in Wednesday's debate.

Obama played it too safe -- but he won't at the next debate on Oct. 16 and in the lead-up to it, his top advisers said on Thursday -- a tacit admission that Obama let himself become a punching bag for Romney.

The Obama team was not quite in a panic -- but they know they have to get more serious. As one person in the Obama orbit put it, "the question is now going to be, can Obama throw a punch that will land -- or will it be one that Mitt can push aside?"

Here's the situation:

1. Obama's team was braced for his poor performance. They've been to this movie before.

Obama blew his first Democratic primary debates in his 2008 campaign and on Wednesday was just too rusty at the podium--which he is not used to sharing with someone who is not his equal.

Hang on, gang--it's gonna be an interesting ride.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/10/obama_retooling_for_next_debat.html

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"When I got onto the stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney," Obama said in a mocking tone at an outdoor rally with a friendly crowd.

"But it -- but it couldn't have been Mitt Romney because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for the last year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts that favor the wealthy. The fellow onstage last night said he didn't know anything about that."

David Plouffe, a White House senior adviser who managed Obama's 2008 campaign, said
going forward, "We obviously are going to have to adjust for the fact of Mitt Romney's dishonesty. So that's something we have to basically make sure people understand."

Senior adviser David Axelrod in a briefing call with reporters, discussing the strategy shifts, said Obama "made a choice last night to answer the questions that were asked and to talk to the American people about what we need to do to move forward, and not to get into serial fact-checking with Gov. Romney, which can be an exhausting, never-ending pursuit.

"But obviously, moving forward, you know, we're going to take a hard look at this and we're going to -- and we're going to have to make some judgments as to where to draw the lines in these debates and how to use -- how to use our time.

Let's play for one moment.   What the script here is reading is that the leader of the free world turned into a bundle of puss because his opponent lied, and the leader of the free world was not prepared to counter that.

The leader of the free world being the CIC.

Ok.

Back to reality.   It seems to me that the Governor called the leader of the free world out on his bullshit and never relented in doing so.    

Note to Obama campaign:   you are doomed to lose if you continue to believe the media on anything Romney.   Romney kicked the president's ass because the president is nothing more than an empty suit in an empty seat, and you are keeping Kerry as his debate partner?   Yeah, you can't fix this kind of stupid.  

Delicious.

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From the original clip:

Obama blew his first Democratic primary debates in his 2008 campaign and on Wednesday was just too rusty at the podium--which he is not used to sharing with someone who is not his equal.

How condescending and rude can you be?

In this instance though, it's correct. O was on stage with someone who was not his equal. O is just on the short end of that comparison.

[formerlurker]

From the original clip:

How condescending and rude can you be?

In this instance though, it's correct. O was on stage with someone who was not his equal. O is just on the short end of that comparison.

I think that was meant to read - the past four years - he has not shared a podium with anyone who was not a head of state/president of another country.  That said, it is worded very poorly.