2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy didn't this Obama show up at debate 1?
We are going to win, but Obama made our job tougher in debate one. Congrats in debates 2 & 3 Mr. President. We have your back and will make sure you get four more years.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)If this Obama showed up in the first one
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)obama and crew figured he would lie and expose himself, and he would sit back and talk to the american people. be honest. be presidential.
americans want a blood bath.
i think it was just a strategy error
Buddaman
(503 posts)BlueStateBlue
(517 posts)It was a strategy to give Romney enough rope to hang himself.
However, I think they underestimated how the media ran with the opportunity to say the race was tightening (ratings, doncha know).
primaryblue
(37 posts)Cut the dude some slack. He's only human.
ncav53
(168 posts)Got taken a brazen by Romney's incredible lies and shapeshifting. It was a miscalculated strategy.
clydefrand
(4,325 posts)in the first debate. I could see that expression that many of us have had when we have bowel problems. I do wish he had done better, but I forgive him because he was not feeling well.
He did a great job with the last 2 debates.
Romney must have had a very dry mouth. That is how people are when they know they are lying, but trying to tell the turth. Just doesn't work.
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