CNN: Forceful Obama bests defensive Romney in foreign policy debate
Source: CNN
(CNN) -- A forceful President Barack Obama put Republican challenger Mitt Romney on the defensive on foreign policy issues on Monday night, scoring a solid victory in their third and final debate just 15 days before Election Day.
Obama displayed the experience of a commander-in-chief in explaining U.S. policy under his leadership and attacking the views and proposals of Romney, a former Massachusetts governor with little experience on overseas issues.
Romney ended up supporting most of the Obama administration's steps involving hotspots, like the civil war in Syria, and preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, giving the president the advantage in a debate in which his GOP rival needed to question foreign policy of the past four years.
Analysts agreed that Obama won the debate on points, but questioned if the debate would have a big impact on voters and the race as a whole.
"There's no question debate coaches would score this one for the president," said CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, while CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen said Obama "dominated the middle of the debate" and emerged as the winner.
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GetTheRightVote
(5,287 posts)Kicking it
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)And that's where Obama will win.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Was that Romney was setting on a lead and exercised a prevent defense tonight of make no mistakes. Earlier today Todd essentially said that the election was now Romney's to lose so this fits in. There are too many counter trends in this election to make such an assessment but then that is just my view.
AAO
(3,300 posts)ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)CONservative Nazi Network likes to change its titles, doesn't it? Specifically, change them to degrade and minimize Obama, even when he literally kicks Repig ass seven ways from Sunday and back.
Pathetic.
brush
(53,871 posts)It's called changing the rules in the middle of the game. Now all of a sudden, because the President won easily the result doesn't matter? If Romney had somehow won, they would be asking what Queen Ann was going to wear at the Inauguration.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)Funny...about 45 minutes before your post, their breaking news was that there was "no clear winner."