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-Election 2012
Obama camp promises tougher response to Romney in next debate
2012-10-05
Reeling from a debate performance where President B.O. often seemed listless and subdued relative to his Republican opponent, the Obama campaign's top strategist said Thursday they would more aggressively challenge Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O...
 on alleged inconsistencies in his policies.

"You know, you can't tell the American people up is down and down is up and ignore your history and ignore your statements," Obama senior adviser David Axelrod
...a Chicago-based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O. Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out....
 said Thursday on MSNBC. "You can't square the circle, and Gov. Romney is going to be held accountable for that."

Axelrod went on to accuse Romney of playing "a shell game" at the debate and said the Republican nominee deserved "an 'F' for being honest with the American people."
In an earlier interview on NBC's "Today Show," Axelrod added that the president was "looking very much forward" to his next chance to debate Romney on Oct. 16.

"I know this, he will come, he will make an honest argument with the American people about how to rebuild the economy and the middle class and he'll hold Gov. Romney to account for these big gaps in the truth we saw last night," Axelrod said.
Posted by:Fred

#20  The next debate is supposedly in a town-hall format. That will likely be problematic.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-10-05 18:53  

#19  "Euro definition has become state, woman, child."

British definition has become white father, white father, (ethnic) child."
Posted by: Cretinous Humongous   2012-10-05 18:06  

#18  I'd say that is correct Besoeker.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-10-05 17:10  

#17  I hope they use John Fn Kerry for Obama's prep--it worked out so well.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-10-05 17:09  

#16  One of two things is taking place:

a. Our Champ could give a flying phuech about is totally ambivalent about a second term.

b. Our Champ knows something we do not know.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-10-05 15:44  

#15  I believe both sides had the debate questions but the questions were a bit open and of course you had to guess what the cross-talk of the debate would center on.

I think Obama believed his own bull and simply thought he could skate like he does through everything else and in this case he got crushed.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-10-05 14:42  

#14  I watched a good part of it again. O looked fairly normal to me, given the circumstances. I'm with AlanC - this is buffed up NOTOTUSPOTUS.
Posted by: KBK   2012-10-05 13:20  

#13  Obama camp promises tougher response to Romney in next debate

Lowering expectations again.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2012-10-05 11:55  

#12  Obama camp promises tougher response to Romney in next debate

Going to send Michelle in as the designated speaker?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-10-05 10:53  

#11  Glenmore said:
I was kind of surprised the media hadn't fed Zero the debate questions

How do you know they didn't? I still keep seeing the meme that Zero is bright, but, I still see no evidence of it.

There's only so much polish you can put on a turd and I think that what you saw is as polished as this turd can be on his own.

Short of allowing him a ToTUS and/or backup flunkeys this is what he is.

To quote Bill Parcells "You are what your record says you are."
Posted by: AlanC   2012-10-05 09:48  

#10  I was kind of surprised the media hadn't fed Zero the debate questions he would be asked well in advance, so he could prepare. Maybe they were overconfident that he could do it on his own. Now that they know, and thus are desperate, I would even more suspect such dirty tricks.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-10-05 09:30  

#9  Perhaps Obama should get out of his media shell and actually learn the issues and not just the Democrat slanted version.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-10-05 08:27  

#8  The MSM, Champ, Axlerod, leftards, and the other sycophants/enablers came away looking like fools after the first debate. Romney/Ryan will have to be on top of their game in the rest of the debates. Obama Team will not stop at anything. Their method of winning is to destroy opponents at any cost. These are not nice people. Think of Al Capone and you will come close to their MO.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-10-05 08:19  

#7  Oh, Glenmore, I'm so.....wounded.....by their condemnation.....


/sarc off
Posted by: no mo uro   2012-10-05 08:00  

#6  Family should be defined as husband, wife, and children.
no mo uro is another one of those gay haters, as Progressive America (and my kids) would say.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-10-05 07:26  

#5  Count Besoeker as one of the ones who gets it.

A method must be found to wean people away from the notion of government as provider of money, and security about an uninterrupted supply of said money, or America ends.

Inherent in this is a reversal of the trend here in the U.S. towards the European redefinition of family. Family should be defined as husband, wife, and children. The Euro definition has become state, woman, child.


With the predictable results.

Can Romney do it, if elected? We'll see.
Posted by: no mo uro   2012-10-05 06:29  

#4  I'm hopeful for R&R, but none of this will matter to the 95 percenters, millions of Food Stamp, housing subsidy and free Telephone recipients. Abe Lincoln could be running against the Champ and they'd still vote for the Champ. It's much, much deeper than the economy or job performance.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-10-05 06:15  

#3  I watched maybe half last night, recorded the night before.

Stoopid format-"How do your policies differ?" encouraged lying/spinning about the other guy's policies.

Then the first three rounds went like this:

O: Gov Romney's $5 trillion tax cut, plus $2T the military doesn't want...

R: That's not my plan.

O: [Same as above.]

R: That's NOT my plan!

Repeat (at least) one more time before the moderator got them to move on.

I thought the Empty Suit shone through the pretty smile.
Posted by: Bobby   2012-10-05 05:56  

#2  Looks like Michelle got her rematch.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-10-05 00:36  

#1  
Posted by: Pliny Gluns6569   2012-10-05 00:35  

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