Has Barack Obama Lost His Mojo?
I’ve embedded video of the first US Presidential Debate above, but I can’t even watch it. It’s both painful and dull. Barack Obama is just boring and un-engaging to watch, like he doesn’t want to be there. It looks like he got in a fight with his wife on their anniversary. Seriously, what is going on. Mitt Romney comes off as comparatively more human. It’s honestly been like this since the Democratic convention, where Bill Clinton defended Obama coherently while Obama, again, was boring.
He’s winning a bit based on forced errors from Romney, and the general felonious erroneousness of Republican policies, but this debate performance was just depressing. Sometimes you wish Bill Clinton was running. Barack Obama has to show that he wants this and wake up, because the alternative is really bad.
Posted on Thursday, October 4th, 2012 in Politics, USA, Video.
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Obama never was a good debater. He’s good speaker, not a debater. He’d do better than Clinton when giving a speech to 200,000 Germans at an outdoor location. But not as good as Clinton when it comes to debating.
I remember John McCain was completely unable or unwilling to look at Obama in the eye. Romney seems to have no problem with it.
Indi man, what the hell, how did you conclude Obama is winning the debate man? are you on meth?
He meant the polls you nitwit.
He’s lost his swagger….needs lessons from gucci mane
Disagree wholeheartedly with your position. I thought Obama maintained his composure and actually made deliberative comments. Having to debate against a playground bully who was flip-flopping on pretty much all of his major platform issues has to be exasperating. Jim Lehrer couldn’t even control Romney, who ended up pretty much having the last word, seemingly emotional B.S., and not leaving sufficient time for the actual questions of importance. He wasn’t even responding to the questions posed by the moderator, just refuting Obama’s facts by claiming “everything he said about my tax plan are inaccurate” (Um, what is your tax plan? Is it not what you detailed prior to the debate?).
Can you name one actual substantive change Romney proposed, other than to say he would not be doing what he previously proposed he would do? He kept throwing around stats like the famous “$716 million cuts” on medicare, making it seem like Obama was doing something horrendous without actually detailing why it was bad (is it really bad in the long term?). His response to ‘how would you change the education system?’ —” let the money follow the child”. Has he thought about what he was saying? That makes very little sense to me, and if you think about the actual consequences seems disastrous. Sure, Obama seemed a little disengaged, but who wouldn’t be?
Epic debate fail. I blame Romney the bully.
see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/the-etch-a-sketch-debate_b_1938635.html
Sure, Obi was flat. But the Times Editors are right. This was hardly a “win” for Romney. Can one just say anything one wants and get away with it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/opinion/an-unhelpful-presidential-debate.html?_r=0
In honor of this post, I give you Ann Cole and that classic R&B song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP0crYPCHV0
(I metely pasted in the link, I hope it works.)
(It worked.)