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Why didn't this Obama show up at debate 1? (Original Post) TexasCPA Oct 2012 OP
Yup we might be talking about 400 electoral votes Thrill Oct 2012 #1
romney was drowning with everyone letting him hang himself. i think.... seabeyond Oct 2012 #2
I think debate 1 was a set-up by BO....good chess move Buddaman Oct 2012 #3
I think so, too BlueStateBlue Oct 2012 #7
Anniversary sex primaryblue Oct 2012 #4
Obama came in trying to be presidential and sit on his lead... ncav53 Oct 2012 #5
I think Obama was not feeling well physically clydefrand Oct 2012 #6
clydefrand Oct 2012 #8
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
2. romney was drowning with everyone letting him hang himself. i think....
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 10:37 PM
Oct 2012

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

BlueStateBlue

(517 posts)
7. I think so, too
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 10:47 PM
Oct 2012

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).

ncav53

(168 posts)
5. Obama came in trying to be presidential and sit on his lead...
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 10:46 PM
Oct 2012

Got taken a brazen by Romney's incredible lies and shapeshifting. It was a miscalculated strategy.

clydefrand

(4,325 posts)
6. I think Obama was not feeling well physically
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 10:47 PM
Oct 2012

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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