Romney won. He may not have buried Obama as he did in the first debate but his points were damning. That he hammered on the economy made him more on point with what matters.
Crowley should have STFU with her interruptions and let Romney respond to the unfounded statements being made by Obama. She gave Obama 9% more time to speak, even more than the other Obama apologist moderators. At least she said after the debate that she was wrong about what Obama said about Benghazi - she will be remembered for her partisan error.
Obama was definitely more engaged than before, but he came across as less than presidential.
I score it 6-4 in favor of Romney. Look for his small but significant lead to continue until the next debate.
Oh good grief - there's going to be another one???? No!!!!!!!!. Who won tonight? The Tigers. It seems I can only watch debates as long as there's a Yankee playoff game to concentrate on.
I'm still undecided. Not a darned thing happened with this debate to affect my preference in the slightest.
Glad you guys enjoyed it
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I'm getting tired of hearing Obama attack Romney personally. Who cares who is invested in Chinese markets or who paid what in taxes? We need to know who's policy is going to be better. The fact is Mitt Romney's track record is very good in Mass. Obama's record is pretty damn poor when looking at the numbers.
I think it was a pretty even debate. Obama danced around issues, such as Libya. Mitt Romney was too focused on fact checking everything.
Obama tried to deceive us with the Youtube crap and "spontaneous" riot non-sense and now people are taking his side on the issue. Believe it or not, it is a political issue. A terrorist group attacked our Embassy and the President is claiming he didn't know anything about it for days. I find it fascinating that the general public doesn't seem to care.
Well, lets look at the context shall we? After this statement Obama and all of his people were talking about a movie for a good week and didn't call it a planned act of terror by terrorists. They push this narrative for a good 7 days after the fact (when they fucking knew exactly what this was). They knew they were lying and if they didn't then they are incompetent. The larger context of the week following that comment suggests where they were NOT calling this a terrorist attack is what is important.Christ - you must be one of the idiots who were against the president with the manufactured "you didn't build that" controversy.
Of course he was fucking taking about this attack - you're a complete fool and partisan hack if you think otherwise. Context, Context, Context - how many times do we have to beat this grade school drum to get it through your thick skull?
I wouldn't say he purposely deceived but any President should have had his ass in the Situation Room until the facts were known....not continuing about his day flying around doing fund-raisers. American diplomats died...get to the bottom of it and immediately. Obviously it wasn't given the priority it necessitated.
It was especially off-putting when he was asked about Libya. He kept the same demeanor when he was talking about something where 4 people died. During that answer he toned it down just a smidge at the end but he seemed to be stuck in his attack mode for too much of that answer.Obama was definitely more engaged than before, but he came across as less than presidential.
You have an unrealistic idea of what a president does. Maybe he should fly into Libya when they find the bad guys and personally fire a bazooka too...
He merely only needs people to keep him in the loop as information flows in. And thanks to telecommunications, he can continue doing all the other stuff he needs to do at the same time.
I wouldn't say he purposely deceived but any President should have had his ass in the Situation Room until the facts were known....not continuing about his day flying around doing fund-raisers. American diplomats died...get to the bottom of it and immediately. Obviously it wasn't given the priority it necessitated.
Not only that, but he had Hillary out there blaming it on a Youtube video and even denouncing the video (which is free speech.) They were convinced enough that it was spontaneous to have a representative do a waltz around all the morning talk shows. Now Obama tries to claim he thought it was a terrorist attack from the start and people are backing him up. He said it was an act of "terror", but so is a haunted house. He never said it was a terrorist attack, he specifically said it was a spontaneous riot. Mitt missed a good opportunity.
It was funny watching Obama say: "Candy, candy, candy, I I I I thththink its time for another question."
Yeah they based it off of the CBS poll, CBS released their poll and Obama had the lead. Should be 100%Repost from what I said earlier, but Intrade odds on Obama winning 2nd debate go from 70% before debate to 99% after. Gives you a good idea of what happened there tonight.
It was on who won the debate not who they prefer to be president. Same CBS poll has Romney up 31 points on who would handle the economy better. He's toast.CBS and CNN polls both give it to Obama.
Looks like the devil people know is the preferred devil indeed.
You have an unrealistic idea of what a president does. Maybe he should fly into Libya when they find the bad guys and personally fire a bazooka too...
He merely only needs people to keep him in the loop as information flows in. And thanks to telecommunications, he can continue doing all the other stuff he needs to do at the same time.
CBS and CNN polls both give it to Obama.
Looks like the devil people know is the preferred devil indeed.
I wouldn't say he purposely deceived but any President should have had his ass in the Situation Room until the facts were known....not continuing about his day flying around doing fund-raisers. American diplomats died...get to the bottom of it and immediately. Obviously it wasn't given the priority it necessitated.
Yeah, Romney was clearly pissed at a couple of spots.This picture sums it all up for me.