Last Night’s Debate: Does Obama Even Want His Job?
If a debate is a draw or close to even, people usually just take sides and proclaim that their guy or gal won, but last night was so bad for President Obama
that most liberals called the debate for Romney early on, and some in the Twitterverse are even questioning whether Obama even wants to get reelected.
“I don’t think he explained himself very well on the economy. I think he was off his game. I was absolutely stunned tonight,” Ed Schultz said last night. Schultz also questioned the wisdom of Obama agreeing that he and Mitt Romney are the same on Social Security. It’s not true, so why would Obama concede that ground?
‘Hardball’s Chris Matthews said Romney took the upper hand and addressed Obama “like the prey. He did it just right. I’m coming at an incumbent. I’ve got to beat him. You gotta beat the champ, and I’m gonna beat him tonight. And I don’t care what this guy moderator, whatever he thinks he is, because I’m going to ignore him. What was Romney doing? He was winning.”
“He choked. He lost. He may even have lost the election tonight,” The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan wrote.
And Esquire’s Charles Pierce opined on what President Obama could’ve addressed, but didn’t: “(A good question to have asked him might have been, “Governor, if you did so much for education and health care and the economy in Massachusetts, how come I’m beating you there by 30 points and your approval rating up there has been in the crapper for six years?”)”
So what happened last night? Did Obama just bomb for no reason? Did he forget his talking points, or what he’d been doing over these past for years? Or is he tired of the job and ready to hand it over to Mittens?
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He took his foot off the gas. He let Mitt push him around. He didnt call Mitt out on some big lies either. Seems he just thought Mitt would make himself look bad and all the president had to do was rope a dope…
Whatever the issue was, Mitt jumped on him and got himself back in this race.
I was on the freeway last night. I still don’t think there’s anything Romney can do to win this election.
MITT was telling big fat lies….many of them all thru the debate. If you call that “a winner” — well, you deserve the h**l that the GOP has been dishing out and will continue to dish out if that clown gets elected. How does one debate an ETCH-A-SKETCH??? Romney flipped and flopped so much in telling lies and changing his empty “plans” in that debate…that he could have been in the Olympics. ROMNEY wants to cut off benefits for the 47% of us. He wants to help the RICH with big tax cuts. And he has a history of shipping jobs overseas. BUT HE CAN SMILE AND BOGARD A DEBATE !!! Some people in this country are so duped by utter nonsense…that they think Romney won. If the GRAND DRAGON or SATAN himself got on stage with a weak sorry excuse for a moderator who let him ramble on….I suppose these pundits would say… “Wow…Satan is a winner.”
Let me start by an illustration. How a doctor cures a patient’s illness. First the doctor asks the patient a series of questions, these questions will allow the doctor to identify the symptoms, then from the symptomes the doctor will recommend the medication that will cure the patient’s illness. If we tarnslate this analogy in our today politics arena, for Obama this is the first debat where he was listening carefully what Romney was saying because during the compaign Romney never say the “specifics” of his the plan to be implemented when he will be in the white house (his 47% comment will hunt him for ever). Obama has been in the white house and he knows the pain and the joy, and how the government works, and Romney does not. With that being said, I have gut feeling that the second debate Romney will have difficult time to maintain his head above the water, and the third debate will be Romney total lost, and Obama will be reelected for four more years, and this will be the time when Obama will help black folks. The reason I feel confident is because on his first four years Obama has been helping other races except black forks, and when he start to help black forks other races will not have reason to blame him because they have been helped. Obama is saving the best for last for black folks. We don’t have another alternative but vote for Obama.
I wouldn’t want to be president. Lets face it Rommney wouldn’t face half the opposition, from congress or black people. Obama can’t undo in four years whats been going on for centuries by the rich against poor blacks and whites, fighting each other for crumbs.
I thought about this before I read this question above. There could be a subconscious fatigue of being president for Obama. He could be tired of being a white president. It is not a natural way for a black person to be all the time. The question is a possibility. I don’t know because I would need to be around Pres. Obama to know for sure.