First impressions of tonight’s debate:
Mitt Romney was aggressive, dominant over moderator Jim Lehrer, showed his tendency to monopolize for his own benefit, showed his ability to lie and deceive, acted as if he was back to being a moderate Republican Governor of Massachusetts.
Barack Obama was too gentlemanly, too passive, too laid back, failed to take advantage of opportunities, and needs to do better.
But one good debate by Romney, and one disappointing debate by Obama does not determine the election by any means.
More commentary will come tomorrow, when the author has had time to sort through and analyze the debate in more detail!
That was my impression of the debate as well.
Same impression I had as well. Plus I thought that the moderator was useless.
I like the advice that the political blog Winning Progressive says on their Twitter page:
“If you are an Obama supporter, don’t fall for the myth that he “lost”. Instead, fight for him as hard as he fights for us every day.”
twitter.com/WinProgressive
This is the proper perspective without a doubt.
It just means, that as always, progressives have to fight a little bit harder to achieve their goals, and preserve their accomplishments!
This is not the time to be down, but the time to get more ready than ever to fight for what we believe in, and expose Romney for the charlatan that he is!
I like this perspective about Obama’s performance:
chipshirley.blogspot.com/2012/10/obama-rope-dope.html
Thanks for these links!
Just curious if any of you picked up on the Gish Gallup that Romney was using last night. It is the typical creationists debate tactic of spewing as much BS as possible so that evolutionist can’t possibly answer all the arguments at once, picks one answer to rebut, and appears to the audience as the loser, since they can’t answer everything at once like the challenger. It just appeared to me that Obama didn’t know how to handle all of the crap and out and out lies that came out of Romneys mouth at one time. Obama will do better at the town hall debate, since Romney won’t be able to use the Gish Gallup in that format.