These were all of the stories in a row as I went to read Lucianne.com. But it’s not a debating contest and these people are vicious. The next debate will be on even more difficult terrain for Obama, foreign policy, but they have been warned and it will be a very different game. The media in conjunction with the Obama re-election committee will do everything they can to ease Obama’s pathway to retain the presidency while doing everything they can to make life harder for Romney. But a great start as every one of these stories makes clear.
What Losers Look Like
Slate, by David Weigel Original ArticleAwful night for a snippy, weak Obama
Boston Herald, by Margery Eagan Original ArticleMassacre leaves liberals in tears
New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original ArticleA Huge Victory for Mitt
National Review Online, by Larry Kudlow Original ArticleWas That Obama’s Dud Double
Who Lost the Debate to Romney?Knockout: Mitt Romney Crushes Barack
Obama in First Presidential Debate
P J Media, by Bryan Preston Original ArticleRomney attacks Obama’s ‘trickle
down government’ in first debate
Washington Times, by Dave Boyer & Stephen Dinan Original ArticleObama the debater: Making
Jimmy Carter look awesome
Washington Times, by Charles Hurt Original ArticlePresidential debate: Mitt Romney
outshines President Obama with
tough, but not disrespectful remarks
New York Daily News, by Joshua Greenman Original ArticleUS presidential debate: Barack
Obama gets a rude awakening
Telegraph [UK], by Peter Foster Original ArticleObama on defensive in
first debate with Romney
Chicago Sun-Times, by Natasha Korecki Original ArticleRomney turns economic tables on
Obama, slams ‘trickle-down government’
Daily Caller, by Caroline May Original ArticleStrong offense. Weak defense.
Chicago Tribune, by Editorial Staff Original ArticleDebate Performance, Urges Him
to Get Talking Points from MSNBCRomney puts Obama on
defensive on deficit
The Hill [Washington, DC], by Erik Wasson Original ArticlePresidential debate:
Round One goes to Romney,
by many measures
Los Angeles Times, by James Rainey Original ArticleRomney lands punches against
subdued Obama in first debate
The Hill [Washington, DC], by Amie Parnes & Justin Sink Original ArticleAnalysis: Mitt Romney Brought
Debate to President Obama’s Soft Spots
ABC News, by Rick Klein Original ArticleObama Walloped On
Intrade Early In Debate
Business Insider, by Henry Blodget Original ArticleRomney: “I love Big Bird” – Thread Closed
Yahoo! News, by Eric Pfeiffer Original Article
Some of those headlines are hilarious.
Pre-debate, the pundits said that the words wouldn’t matter as long as the candidates “look presidential.” This falsehood lulled Obama into complacency. He arrived with prepared mini-speeches, which were inadequate weapons against his foe.
Romney shocked everyone by turning up for a debate, and wanting to actually argue the issues out.
One and the same. The media is the re-election committee.
For debate #2, I predict that Obama’s shellshocked handlers will seek to bolster the President’s flagging, struggling campaign by ordering him to come out blazing. Not that this will work, polemically, of course. Romney is too superior. No, what such a strategy will enable is a media rescue built around screaming claims that “Obama Fights Back,” “Feisty Obama Squares the Ledger” – that sort of bullshit.
James Carville (DRUDGE):
‘Romney came with a chainsaw’…
Podheretz can so funny when his is joking around, but today he is sober in his analysis:
Debate 2 is a town hall type debate with people asking questions so naturally it will favour Obama with the vetted questions. Really it doesn’t matter that much as debate 3 will be the all-important one before the election. Whomever wins that will have the recency effect carried forward to polling day, imo.
Who’s moderator for the next smack down? Make no mistake they’ll be running interference for President Pooped His Pants.
You could be right that CL, and as you say, it won’t work. The mismatch in debating skill is too great. Also, Obama is on much weaker ground on foreign policy than he is on domestic policy. He’ll boast about killing Bin Laden and complain about the wars he inherited, but the moment Libya gets mentioned – or Mexico – he’s toast.
The old hag Candy Crawley
correction – the third debate will be on foreign policy. The second, as gab says, will be town-hall style.
Is the Town Hall in Hyde Park, Chicago? That’s about the only place on earth SCOAMF would feel comfortable after getting honey badgered by Willard The Enforcer.
Tony Jones leading into Lateline with a grudging statement that Romney’s flagging campaign ‘might just be getting back on track’. They won’t give an inch, even this far away from the US.
Snap CNN poll, 67% for Romney, says T. Jones, swallowing broken glass slowly. lol.
Come Lizzie, Mitt said he would defund the PBS.
I work not so far from SBS and through the wind I could hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth. It must’ve been bedlam in Ultimo and Southbank.
Apologist academic on Latline now saying the first debate is nearly always lost by ‘an incumbent President’ who will usually appear ‘somewhat sluggish and lacklustre’. The President apparently is usually too busy ‘running the country’ to prepare too much. LOL. Mick Romney was apparently ‘very aggressive against the President’.
Nothing to see here then folks. Academia has spoken.
I’m quite fond of Candy, Token.
She’s one of the more professional lefty journos I think.
She’s the least biased of the Sunday morning show anchors.
Obama supporters can whine all they like about Romney having had recent debate practice thanks to the Republican primaries, but:
1) It shows up the fact that the DNC either saw no realistic alternative to Obama (really?) or was not prepared to allow one, thus depriving him of that practice, and…
2) If Obama had been doing his job properly instead of swanning off to this public appearance and that TV show – if he had actually had answers to America’s problems and spent the last four years doing his utmost to implement them – he would not have NEEDED preparation.
I heard him talk a lot about what he’d done and what he was doing, but very little about the specifics of what he intended to do and nothing that was new. Romney came pounding out of the starting gate with a plan, which he knew backwards. That was just the first two minutes. After that, it was clear to me that Romney knew his stuff and Obama was up shit creek with a loosening grip on the paddle.
As the startled, panicking ones on MSNBC noted – much more of this, and Obama’s finished.
Watch as thug Axelrod gets nasty with Crowley:
Axelrod Weighs In On First Debate, Attempts To Explain Performance
CNN’s Candy Crowley asks Obama Campaign Senior Adviser David Axelrod what went wrong in the first presidential debate.
Axelrod attempted to downplay the instant poll results showing Romney clearly won the debate and dominated on who would handle the economy better.
Any opportunities missed by Obama were ‘purely purposeful’. Hahahahahahahahah
My schedule would involve Wolf Blitzer and Dennis Miller.
Possibly James Carville and Dennis Leary or Drew Carey.
Throw in the toesucker as a colour commentator/analyst to wrap things up.
That was my call on the first Oct. The media aren’t even pretending it wasn’t a disaster for the Sun King.
Brissenden and 7.30 this evening resorted to the familiar narrative when the left are clearly in trouble: a pox on both their houses, politics is so debased nowadays. Shucks.
Now he’s coming round to saying Democrat strategists are scratching their heads about these omissions.
But then, here he is, back to the ‘history’ of bad debate performance in the first debate, (despite the existence of counter-examples).
(This guy’s name is Mitchell McKinley from some uni in Missouri btw).
Tim Blair:
Various pale people are complaining about the apparent whiteness of a Fox News focus group assembled to judge the first debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Superficial colour-based judgments can be problematic. How do these racial referees – including ABC re-tweeters Jonathan Green and Mark Colvin – know that the focus group isn’t composed entirely of Australian Aborigines?
What’s happened to spot the dog?
Hasn’t been around in ages.
Genius pollster Frank Luntz and his Fox focus group
Frank Luntz’s focus group of undecided voters went overwhelmingly for Romney tonight
This focus group loved Romney’s performance tonight and didn’t care much for how Obama handled himself. But before you assume this is a Republican group, Luntz said that 13 out of 24 people in the group voted for Obama in 2008. And all but 3 said Romney won big tonight.
I tell you whose really going to be grinning come election night if Obama loses…
George W. Bush.
Sarah Palin mocks flagging dumbo for not having his teleprompter handy.
Ryan vs Biden 11oct –looking forward to a conservative policy “wonk” vs old style Democrat
‘Old Style’ as in Bill Clinton? Watching him go up against Ryan would be pleasure in watching.
Watching a train wreck though, is kind of sad.
I cannot believe Jonathon Green et-al in their official capacity as Public Servants are able to sit on twitter all day bitching about the Libs, re-tweeting Marieke Hardy, loving up Vile Deveny then have the audacity to claim that they’re some how highbrow and Jones, Bolt etc are beneath their contempt.
What a bunch of fuckwits.
There has been some debate about whether Hammy believes what he writes. I think he does, and furthermore, there was evidence on the ABC TV news last night that he writes for them too. Deborah Rice’s script went something along the lines of a narrow points decision to Romney!
DRUDGE: Obama campaign appeals to media for help after debate debacle.
Accused child molester Harry Reid strikes back the only way he knows how:
Hey, where are Clint Eastwood’s critics now?
Photoshop of the day.
Jon Stewart
These guys are going to start peddling the code words “Tingles” and the other lilly-white lefties of MSNBC keep throwing around.
Along those lines, watch the Chris Matthews “knifing” video and see how much time and respect is given to the token on the panel, veteran race-baiter, Sharpten.
Woof, Ann Althouse deals with Al Gore’s pathetic excuse making for the Sun King well:
Al Gore: Obama’s dog ate his homework. The dog better watch out!
Andrea Mitchell Asks Sununu To Apologize For Calling Obama “Lazy”
SUNUNU: What people saw last night, I think, was a president who revealed his incompetence – how lazy and detached he is and how he has absolutely no idea how serious the economy problems of the country are and how he has failed to even address them.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Governor, I want to give you a chance to maybe take it back. Did you really mean to call Barack Obama, the President of the United States, lazy?
SUNUNU: Yes. He didn’t want to prepare for this debate. He’s lazy and disengaged.
MITCHELL: I think there certainly was a performance issue there and whether or not he was in his best form last night, a lot of people are questioning that. But I think to call the president lazy and disengaged is another whole question
Gore sure knows a lot about flying around in a Gaia raping charter jet.
Romney Honeybadger Sununu: “The Obama you saw last night is the same Obama that’s been in the WH for 4 years”
Sununu says that the liberal media is trying to make excuses for Obama, suggesting he had a bad night. But Sununu says that is false:
Funniest ever!
Those crazy Taiwanese animators summarise the debate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iNhUI8ktHuw
Bolta picked up the animation from Taiwanese NWM.
They document in it an agressive Romney and whimpy Obama, and in a very funny way the Big Bird comment (see what the Seseme Street characters are holding?)
Interseting the count of the debate (1:16 min mark) is also published highlighting the fact Romney got 38.5 min to speak where as the Sunk King got 43 min
Krauthammer On Obama’s Debate Performance: “He Isn’t Half As Intelligent As He Thinks He Is”
“Look, people say, Obama was off his game. This is his game. If you take away a prompter, this is his game. He’ll occasionally give a great speech, but if you look at him in his news conferences, which where you don’t have a prompter and the president has more control, he gets to ask to decide who the questioner is and he gets to decide how long he talks, and what parts of an answer he’ll give, he never does well. So this is who he is. I think people — he’s intelligent, but he isn’t half as intelligent as he thinks he is and as most of his acolytes who, you know, have treated him in a messianic way for a half decade or so think he is,” syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said about President Obama’s performance at last night’s debate.
It was fun to watch. On the occasions Obama spoke first, Romney quickly responded and showed a clear understanding of the issues. When Romney spoke first, he preemptively addressed Obama’s talking points, but the idiot Obama still just recited his prepared speech. Made him look the complete moron that he is.
I didn’t catch it as I don’t really follow US politics closely. But a lefty facebook friend posted a link to the US leftwing media’s assesment of it.
The excuses they made for Obama were incredible, but even from reading that it’s clear that he got trounced.
‘sactly.
Romney showed he understood the issues and could let his answer evolve. Obama proved to all how little he knows.
Kevin obama is coming unstuck away from his meeja creators ,just like the kruddster and jooLIAR giLIARd ,FALSE Promotions Always Do!
Oh but it’s all subject to carbon offset, dot. So there you have it folks. We can smoke it up all we like as long as we all offset. Right, Al?
We can smoke it up all we like as long as we all offset. Right, Al?
In religious terms, this was referred to as the selling of indulgences (“the right to sin”, as it were). So morally corrupt was this practice, it helped bring about the Protestant/Catholic schism and the misery that followed on from that.
Hundreds of years later, nothing has changed – there are still people setting themselves up as High Priests and selling the sufficiently well-off the right to do things they disapprove of. When they get to Hell, I hope Satan finds them all very, very arousing.