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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney team expects Obama to be more aggressive in next debate.
Politics is like war and it is usually to your advantage not to do what your opponent or enemy expects.
The "media" already have their story line for this debate before it even happens. Which candidate looked more "presidential"?
The President needs to look strong and confident without looking aggressive. He needs to have the facts at his fingertips and he needs to make them.
Romney considered the last debate a success. Rarely do people change what they think is successful. We can expect him to have that same painful smile and pretending that he really cares about the middle and working classes. It's all a charade for him.
The President needs to tie him to the failed Bush trickle-down policies and remind the people that he still has not released a full tax return. We don't know how much he actually paid or where he has his money stashed. We know he has a lot of money that is not invested in America but in foreign accounts. We also know that he has paid very little in taxes for a long time. We know he was against bailing out the automobile companies and that he shipped a lot of American jobs overseas and fired a lot of American workers. We do know that.
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)and a massive question about where the fuck his taxes as it is due today.
Tax summaries are not returns, Rmoney. Bring them over tonight, or Reid will release them for you.
msongs
(67,407 posts)JackN415
(924 posts)takes a nap right away
rock
(13,218 posts)In the first debate only one of the candidates looked presidential even if he looked a little under the weather (my own theory being he had a touch of something). In any case as I've said before, Obama won. He refused to be brought in to the shit slinging and bullying that one of them insisted on engaging in. Big O was very presidential, even statesman like. I'm sure he will behave the same in the second pres debate. Meanwhile Yenmor (I like to flip flop the spelling occasionally) has nothing.
Addendum: It struck me after I'd posted. Romney cannot act presidential; it is not in the nature of bullies to do so.