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The Spectacle Blog
Did President Obama, Mitt Romney and Jim Lehrer get together five minutes before the debate and down a box of Sominex? Obama and Romney talked as if they had jetlag (all things considered they probably do) and when Lehrer interjected it sounded like he was going in and out of sleep.
President Obama was absolutely lacklustre in defending his term in office and seemed more comfortable talking about Bill Clinton’s achievements than his own. He expressed his frustration for not having tax loopholes closed as if he hadn’t been President for the past four years and as if his party hadn’t controlled both Houses of Congress for two of those years.
Obama was ripe for the picking. But Romney spent half the night agreeing with him. He even apologized to Obama when he used the term “Obamacare”. When Romney spoke of the middle class suffering over the past four years, he made no mention of the fact that Joe Biden feels exactly the same way.
Sure Romney got a couple of good points on Obama such as his promise to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion when he hasn’t decreased the deficit by a penny over the past four years. He also raised a good point when he said that Obama could have hired a lot of math and science teachers if he didn’t spend $90 billion on alternative energy like Solyndra.
Now I must say that my mother called as I was writing this post and she was absolutely ecstatic about Romney’s performance. Frankly, she hadn’t planned on watching the debate. She thought Romney had strong attention to detail and wouldn’t let Obama get away with saying he was proposing a $5 trillion tax cut. But I think Romney went into too much detail and he ended up spending more time defending his platform than punching holes into Obama’s.
However, my mother mentioned Obama making funny faces. Maybe they’ll end up being like Al Gore’s sighs. She also mentioned that Bill Maher sent out a tweet saying that Obama does need a teleprompter. This would be the Bill Maher that gave a $1 million to Obama’s SuperPAC. If Bill Maher is worried then maybe Obama had a worse night than Romney after all.
I didn’t think Romney had raised sufficient doubt about the Obama presidency. But now I’m having doubts about my doubts.
Simon Templar| 10.3.12 @ 11:19PM
What planet do you live on? This article was a joke, right? Sarcasm, right?
ayrnieu| 10.4.12 @ 1:56AM
It's pretty easy to understand. He watched the same debate you did, but he saw it through a lens cluttered by thoughts about where Romney could've done better. On Romneycare-Obamacare for instance, I sighed when Romney went back to how much he liked Romneycare - he kept letting Obama's equivalence stick, instead of offering a quick rebuke like "Now hold on, my bill was 70 pages, your bill was 2070 pages."
fmm| 10.4.12 @ 5:43AM
Yup, one's point of view makes all the difference. Mr. Goldstein and all of we commenters are likely to be interested but frustrated bystanders, and would like to see big holes punched into O----'s approach. But how Romney sees it is the important thing as he actually has to deal with the results of how he presents himself and what he says. It is probably better to win a few points while concentrating on his own policies so that people understand what he has to offer. Romney struck a good balance and effectively corrected the POTUS several times when liberties were taken.
Simon Templar| 10.3.12 @ 11:21PM
Listen to your mother or just stick to doing obituaries.
Simon Templar| 10.3.12 @ 11:25PM
Look..you and DRED have a lot in common...perhaps you should really reconsider that you are really a conservative at all.
DRed| 10.3.12 @ 11:14PM
To an extent-Romney was vague and seemed to contradict some of what he's been campaigning on, but Obama did a terrible job of pointing that out. Mittens did a good job.
CJW| 10.3.12 @ 11:27PM
Romney destroyed Obama.
Obama cannot defend his record.
If you want to know who won, watch Matthews on MSNBC. He went crazy,and said O has to watch MSNBC every night to learn the issues.
Occam's Tool| 10.3.12 @ 11:30PM
Obama Wolcott was ahead on points going into the thirteenth round, then Marciano Mitt "equalized."
Foreign policy debate is gonna be fun........can you say, "sodomized Ambassador?" I knew you could.
Cobalt| 10.4.12 @ 12:09AM
After tonight, maybe Obama will try to throw a Hale Mary pass, by going ahead and starting a war with Iran.
Bob Grant| 10.4.12 @ 12:17AM
Aaron Goldberg,
Do you moonlight as an eastern European figure skating judge?
What debate were you watching?
Is the fix in?
Bob Grant| 10.4.12 @ 12:21AM
Correction. Aaron Goldstein. My apologies.
Nolann Ryann| 10.4.12 @ 12:52AM
Are you freaking kidding me? Romney crushed the annointed one. Our wonderful president was revealed as the clueless dunce he is and has always been throughout his political career. Why don't you stick to "reporting" what goes on in baseball. I can go to the real source and verify your palgarism from the diamond. Good grief no wonder you like living in Boston. You fit right in with all the other union leftist democrat sycophants.
soljerblue| 10.4.12 @ 2:37AM
"I didn't think Romney had raised sufficient doubt about the Obama presidency. But now I'm having doubts about my doubts."
Go back and watch the video again, Aaron -- all the way through.
PCC| 10.4.12 @ 9:09AM
Dear Aaron,
God bless you for your baseball blog posts and obituaries.
I think you should stick with them.
You witnessed the defenestration, emasculation, humiliation and domination of a sitting US president on TV and - apparently - missed the whole thing!
I think this will prove to be the most consequential presidential debate since Kennedy/Nixon.
Casey Abell| 10.4.12 @ 11:48AM
Maybe you guys hadn't noticed. But Aaron Goldstein really, really, really doesn't like Mitt Romney. I mean, when Goldstein won't give Romney credit for that debate, he's a Hater Supreme.