Drunkblogging the First Presidential Debate
5:55PM I’m in the lobby bar of the Crowne Plaza Airtport Hilton Ritz General Six with the rest of the CPAC Colorado crowd who both
A) Got here early
B) Despise their livers like I despise mine
And that seems fair.
It’s a good crowd of not many strangers, and some instant friends. So if tonight’s drunkblog isn’t quite as active as usual, please believe me when I tell you that as much as ever, my lady parts depend on it.
5:57PM The lobby bar has on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and John King, making this bar a Charisma Free Zone. But that’s what we go to CNN for, so I don’t mind very much.
Also, drunken revelry.
5:58PM I’m sorry you missed this, but I just had to remind the lovely young lady to my left (geographically, not politically) that Joe Biden was brought on for his gravitas. Good times, good times.
6:02PM I’m happy to report that what I heard on KVOR this morning, that the candidates would be seated at table tonight, is not true. I’m seeing nothing but podiums.
But let’s not blame the good people at KVOR. These days, I’m up at 5:25, handling the two boys until school time, and the running them to their two different schools — all on two cups of coffee. For all I know, the 9AM host at KVOR was saying the two candidate would be receiving rectal probes administered by aliens from the planet Wambino.
6:02PM Jim Lehrer looks remarkably lifelike.
6:03PM Romney is taller. I never knew that.
6:05PM “I want to wish Sweetie a happy anniversary.”
Sweetie?
6:05PM Ah. I see. It’s all BOOOOOOOOOOOSH’S fault.
Drink if you didn’t see that one coming.
Oh, and GM.
Drink.
6:06PM “New sources of energy.” Frack that.
6:06PM #Debate2012 is the trending Twitter hashtag, FWIW.
6:07PM First real laugh of the night goes to Romney, for apologizing for being the “romantic” element of the Obama’s 20th anniversary.
6:08PM Obama is doing is best I’M NOT PEEVISH face. If the all-caps didn’t give it away, the face is not entirely convincing.
6:08PM Mitt? Reagan had four points, and he made them in less time than you took to make your first two.
6:09PM “Trickle down government.” It’s a good phrase, but it got a little lost in the five-point shuffle.
6:10PM “We’ve made enormous progress,” Bipartisan progress, even.
Um…
Also: 100,000 new math and science teachers and low tuition and lower taxes and PLEASE BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU I’M BILL CLINTON. Because he was great at my convention, am I right, people?
6:11PM Three words, Mr. President: So. Lynn. Duh.
6:11PM Kudos to Lehrer for calling Obama on his filibuster.
6:12PM “High income people are doing just fine in this economy.’
I think Mitt just drew first blood.
6:13PM And there is the total I AM THE PEEVISH KING look.
Sorry for the Nightmare Before Christmas reference, but tis the season.
6:13PM Mitt has Come. Out. Swinging.
6:14PM “I like coal.” Do you hear me, Pennsylvania?
6:14PM Romney had a great out, but then he just kept talking.
6:14PM Well, uh. uh, let’s talk about taxes.
Let’s.
6:15PM Shorter Obama: I bought you a computer! Doesn’t it look nice next to your ObamaPhone?
6:16PM “The only way to meet Romney’s pledge is…”
I dunno… Simpson-Bowles?
6:16PM Fillibuster-in-Chief.
6:17PM I CAN BURN HOLES IN YOUR SOUL WITH MY EYES.
That’s what I’m getting from the right side of the screen, anyway.
6:19PM Romney is doing the job of making Obama angry, without being mean. The split-view camera reminds me of Bush versus Gore 12 years ago.
6:19PM YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH MATH!
I swear, I could live to be a million and six, and I will never forget watching Romney force Obama into channeling Ron Burgundy.
6:21PM From my neighbor: “Jim Lehrer has totally lost control.”
Me: “That’s the only thing that makes this any good.”
6:22PM Damn you, damn you Mitt Romney for using math.
6:23PM “The same idea behind Bowles-Simpson, by the way.”
Slam. I don’t know how well most people will appreciate that, but… awesome’
And then Obama tried to change the subject, and everybody here laughed. It’s a good crowd.
6:24PM Obama keeps saying “math,” but Romney keeps using numbers.
You do the math.
6:25PM It’s… mind-blowing… for lack of a better word, watching Obama trying to run on Clinton’s record. Just…
Just…
The audacity of total crap.
6:26PM Romney has had three “I paid for this microphone” moments on Lehrer.
6:26PM “Voting for the status quo is not going to cut it for the American people.”
THAT is the pitch.
6:28PM I just watched an out-of-work fund manager politely tell the President of the United States to stand still and wait his turn — and totally made him do it.
Wow. Wow.
Wow.
6:29PM BOOOOOOOOSH> Two Wars. Deficits. Credit cards.
It’s NOT MY FAULT.
Oh, sell it in Hyde Park.
6:30PM Obama just slammed the F-22. I guess Lockheed is going to send out those layoff notices after all. If not, they’re fools.
6:30PM My deficit plan is on my website. It has an 800 number.
6:31PM Let you be clear?
No.
NO!
Just this once, I demand that you obfuscate.
6:32PM “We’re way over two minutes.” Mr Lehrer, you’re two minutes were over about three minutes into this debate.
6:32PM “We still show trillion dollar deficits every year.”
Math is hard.
6:34PM It’s embarrassing — for the President — when the moderator has to cut in to “allow” the President to answer something. Especially when the challenger takes right back over.
6:35PM “Let’s talk about corporate taxes. I’ve identified areas…”
Then what have you been doing the last four years?
6:36PM “We’re going to help young people.”
Again, what have you been doing the last four years?
6:38PM Short delay. I lost my cocktail waitress, but Michelle Ray just poured me tequila from her own personal stash.
When I said this was a great crowd, I wasn’t kidding.
6:39PM So. Lynn. Duh.
“You don’t pick the winners and losers. You pick the losers.”
Schooled.
“I’ve been in business 25 years, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Summer schooled.
6:40PM “One of the magnificent things about this country…”
After four years, I’ve missed that kind of language.
6:41PM In rebuttal to Solyndra and business and all the rest, Obama is talking about… his grandmother.
And I will rebut the rebuttal by playing the world’s smallest violin.
6:42PM I miss Obama’s grandma. By now, maybe more than he does.
6:43PM From the gallery: “Tell us about your racist dead grandma.”
6:45PM “You would turn Medicare into a voucher program.” Which is, like, totally uncool after I cut $716,000,000,000 out of it.
6:47PM Romney has been practicing his split-screen face. When Obama is speaking, he looks like I hope I look, when my six-year-old is trying to sell me on a line of total crap.
6:50PM It’s gotten so bad, that every time Romney speaks, Obama looks like Martin Landau playing Bela Lugosi jonesing for a heroin fix.
6:51PM From the peanut gallery: “Romney is moderating AND participating.”
6:51PM From the peanut gallery: “I just sent out an Amber Alert for Jim Lehrer.”
6:52PM Mr. President? The answer is not written on your hand.
I think.
6:55PM “I wouldn’t designate five banks as ‘too big to fail’ and hand them a blank check.”
6:56PM “It’s been two years, we don’t know what a qualified mortgage is yet.”
Paralysis is another word for stasis, which is the vil prog end game. It’s a philosophy of modern feudalism.
6:58PM Intermission: Aaron Hanscom, our managing editor, just emailed to tell me Andrew Sullivan is wailing and rending his garments over Obama’s bad performance.
What, he was expecting another McCain?
7:00PM OBAMACARE RAWKS!
I love it when he has to remind people about the law we all hate.
7:01PM Mr President? You don’t negotiate for five seconds. You negotiate for the end of your answer.
This is why Iran will end up with nukes.
7:03PM Wow. Obama looks mad, now that the subject is the ill effects of the law bearing his name.
I mean, I CAN BURN YOUR SOUL WITH MY EYEBALLS.
7:04PM From the peanut gallery: “You can stay on your parents’ Medicare.”
7:23PM It’s been more of the same while our servers struggled to handle the load. And that is: Obama, peevish, scripted. Romney, relaxed, and owning the stage like one of the “big, swinging dicks” from Wall Street, which Obama both despises and relies upon.
And that’s the trick tonight, isn’t it? Obama has always relied on the big money men in private, while disparaging them in public. But what happens when he comes up against one of them in the most public way possible?
Now we know the answer, and it ain’t pretty.
The president appeared small and petulant and reactive. Romney looked presidential and secure and proactive. There was only one president on the stage tonight, and he doesn’t (yet) hold the office.
Bombay Saphire and some Scotch!
Need to do some preparation
Drinking game:
http://leelusplace.blogspot.com/2012/10/debate-drinking-game.html
Is the 4 year campaign over with? I can’t wait for the 2016 campaign to start in a couple of months….
It started several month’s ago. Hillary’s going to be the Dem nominee in 2016.
Actually, the 2016 Dem candidate will likely be Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY). Younger, more charismatic, more centrist, and has actual executive experience.
Whoever it is, it will be someone attractive rather than Hillary. Ten years ago, she would have been electable by today’s standards (physical good looks). Today, she looks frumpy. In 2016, she’ll look grandmotherly — and not in a good way. If she is the nominee, Republicans could nominate anyone they want and win.
Wait…maybe I’ve underestimated the magnitude of loser Republicans are capable of nominating.
Frumpy is right. Right now she looks just like the sister married to Onslow on Keeping Up Appearances (first series, but did she ever change? Don’t think so…)
If she wore a stained t-shirt, Hillary would look like Onslow.
Actually, the 2016 Democratic nominee will be Barack Obama. Really. Who else do they have? Debbie Wasserman Shultz? If Romney beats Obama in 2012, then Obama will return in 2016 to extract his revenge. He’s the only person that the Democrats have. Hillary? By 2016 they will be scrapping her off of the bottom of the bar room floor.
Bucky, given that Obama loses (and I’m beginning to feel confident) I seriously doubt the Dems will pick him again. I cite in evidence William Jennings Bryan, Adlai Stevenson, and Al Gore.
Casey, Adlai Stevenson was the Democrat nominee in 1952 and 1956, losing both times to Eisenhower.
I think Immanuel is on to something here. If Romney wins and perhaps especially if he has a successful Presidency, what do the left radicals do? Seriously. Do they roll up and just go away? Does the Democratic Party seriously de-radicalize itself and start its American venture anew?
I think the radicals aren’t finished. I think they throw caution to the wind and come back a leaner, meaner, more disciplined, more talented lying, slandering machine with better media coordination, better messages.
I think the last thing that happens is that they go quietly into the night.
Dear Immanuel Goldstein,
I hate you (3:45-4:00 p.m. Central time).
Yours truly,
Big Brother.
I live in New York. Am a state worker who could have gotten the ax from Gov. Cuomo. And even I’d vote for him, despite my REpub./libertarian leanings.
The 9/11/12 attacks put the nail in the coffin of Hillary’s 2016 bid, if one was even in the works. If foreign policy had been a moderate success under Obama she’d have a fighting chance, but it has not.
Campaign for what? Mayor of Chicago? Rahm’s got that sewed up for the next twenty years.
Time for a beer!
Yahoo News! feed – The angle of Romney’s podium seems…. I don’t know…. racist.
Now that was funny.
I would fave you if I could. I can’t so I will give you one of these: lol
Perhaps the third best laugh I had tonight. The debate was 1, this article took second place.
Boooooooo! Bring on SHA NA NA!
Dilemma. Debate or Yankees clinching or Miggy’s triple crown watch? Gonna wear out the last 4 channels button
Celebrate as a loser in Chicago.
Obama could strut around stage with his hands under his armpits, clucking like a chicken for 30 minutes, and the mainstream media would call the debate a draw. “Look at this picture. Governor Romney looks flustered. He is definitely not ready to be president.”
Homey looks old. I didn’t get the impression he worked or worried all that hard.
And investment is great. IF you have money. We don’t.
Any two (2) baggers in the bar? Oops, they’re at the podiums now.
6:03PM Romney is taller. I never knew that.
But can he dunk?
economic patriotism. Another fascist comment.
Drink Stephen…..
El Presidente is nervous. Too much eye shadow on.
Too much eye shadow and really striking eye bags … which answers the question: Where does he store his golf clubs when he’s on the road?
Third row window seat Air Force One.
I am sure he will be wrapping a few irons around trees in the dawns early light.
If they’re not allowed to cheer, why is there an audience? Why not a TV studio?
Invest in education and training? With what money? Have you seen the Higher Education Bubble that Mr G Reynolds noticed?
Romney is off to a rockin’ start. Woohoo.
I am cheap going with Costco domestic vodka and some olives. Frugal is better!
I only buy vodka when it is on sale. I get to sample a lot of different ones that way. Also, I forgot to stock up on OJ so no vitamin C with my medicine.
4 years ago I dropped from domestic Skyy to Swedish Svedka.
Get it at Sam’s or elsewhere!! The CEO of Costco spoke at the DNC.
I’m a little late to the “party” here, but by all means, avoid Trader Joe’s “Vodka of the Gods.” $10 for a 1.5L. plastic bottle. I shoulda known. Pure rotgut. Maybe I’ll drink it IF Obama wins.
What an impressive and meaningless buzzphrase from Obama: “economic patriotism”. Maybe they realize that people know what the left means when they talk about “economic justice”.
Yeah! “economic patriotism” Scary. What was that? A new made up term? A rallying cry? It sounds like something crawling out of a bad guy in an Ayn Rand movie or Perronistas when they come to take your home and business.
and btw, Romney is biblically better than McCain at this.
Romney’s blowing it already.
We need to save this one.
Trickle-down government… very nice. Make mine a mellow Napa Valley Merlot.
Duckhorn merlot? I think I’ll spring for a bottle for the next debate.
and Obama seems nervous.
….
BHO…I’m counting the number of “uhs”. Unimpressive.
Romney needs to associate the auhs with lost jobs or deficits so that everyone counts them and Obama is forced to fight to not say auh all the time.
Great idea! Can you psychically transmit that to Mitt? Right now?
I think many voters would approve of rectal probes for politicians. Maybe we could use them instead of term limits. By the fourth term, the probes come hourly.
awesome!
Sign me up!
Bio-fuels…does that mean it goes both ways?
Weird humming noise in my ears. Oh, yeah, Obama is talking.
High income people are doing just fine… they’ll do just fine under you or I… it’s the middle class. So far, so good.
Vodka prices are up. Olives too.
you want to hire more teachers but keep costs low? Is that done with magic unicorn dust?
Yes, rbj, it is. Magic unicorn dust and Fairey posters.
That’s convicted felon Fairey to you.
Good point: Unicorn dust and Fairey wanted posters.
And in a nutshell, that pretty much sums up Obama’s qualifications, accomplishments and campaign talking points.
Sir,
Please ignore my comment on your home page . . . Dang DVR, I am 15 min behind time.
Regards,
Did Romney just use Bidens middle class is buried line? #BidenMVPforRomneyCamp
Obama has been cutting taxes? Who knew?
A cute bit of phraseology from Obama–referring to Romney’s “central plan”, as if he had a team from the old Soviet Union ready to set up command and control.
Drink on an uhh!
Obami is blinking as fast as Nancy Pelosi…can’t wait to hear O’Reilly’s body language expert on this one.
Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth
Go Romney. Some of us get what you’re saying. Bottom line …
Oopsy doodle. Lehrer interrupts Romney, unexpectedly!
To listen to Obama you’d think that he was against deficits.
Obama disses arithmetic. So what exactly does he want those “excellent” schools to teach?
Don’t know if Obama will make it to the bell.
Mitt is in his element – policy, discipline, objectives, goals…
Obama is on a stage without a teleprompter.
It’s like he was talking to…..
……an empty chair.
Obama: “it’s impossible to close loopholes enough to …”
Did O just torpedo his own promises?
Stick a fork in yourself Barry. U R Done.
Say hello to President Romney…keep up the attack my brother! Even Lehrer is flummoxed. Lovin’ this and not even drinking.
Clinton’s taxes created millionaires. Taxes create millionaires? Who knew?
Obama’s managing to not roll his eyes and sigh, but other than that is doing a good job of emulating a bratty teenager in his body language.
Holy crap. Obama’s Trump laugh-line bombed!
9:20 pm and Obama’s getting schooled and called out for his lies.
America is growing? Who knew?
Obama pushes science and research after dissing arithmetic. Just what science does he ascribe to… alchemy?
Donald Trump? Small business?….hit with facts Mitt!!!!
When Obama talks, my BS alarm is so loud I can barely hear him. Wait, maybe that’s not a problem.
Facial expressions are interesting POTUS looks annoyed.
Here we go, calling for Clinton tax rates well how about spending levels during Clinton’s years
Obama looks shook
great at gabbling he said she said
He is deer in the headlights at Romney’s grasp of economics
Jim Lehrer just admitted he does not have control of this debate with the “We are way over time.” comment. Bring on a real trifecta of moderators …like Bill, Stephen and Scott!
Mitt comparing Obama to his boys struck the wrong note, but doing well other than that.
Obama “Move on Jim…this is not the topic you want to discuss.”
Romney is talking to Obama while Obama is talking to Jim.
Also, did Obama just surrender by asking Jim to move on?
Dammit, I missed that.
Jim, you may want to move on to another topic (God knows I do) ….
Obama uses math and common sense? Who knew?
Obama is tired of talking taxes. Orders Lehrer to move on.
‘Bama is really struggling with the whole concept of bussiness.
He does have Romney on defense. We’re already spending too much.
how can you cut 5 trillion dollars in taxes when the government only takes in $3 trillion in revenue per year.
Leher’s about to piss himself.
Go, Mittens! Bring out the hammer and drive that nail home.
Bill Clinton must be feeling so proud! Obama keeps invoking him, as if there is any similarity in approach or talent. The only thing Slick Willie and Obama have in common is their mendacity! =^[.]^=
They also both have penises. ALLEGEDLY.
Michelle keeps Barry’s in her nightstand…or so I heard from Harry Reid.
They both have zippers in their trousers. That’s as far as we can factually commit …
Are we up to four smirks? Wait, did Obama get out his blackberry and send a message to Hillary, “wish you were here”.
Funny!
The status quo is not going to cut it. I smell a money-line.
Romney use morals and math in the same sentence… nice.
Death to Big Bird and Elmo! Wait…what…
I just came into this debate at 9:28 eastern. Someone please tell me Romney is not on the defensive against the other guy.
Mitt is slaughtering this chair.
Obamacare! He said it!
I’m glad Romney got in the last word, because his last word was the best word.
Mitt just lost the Gov’t employee vote – whoopsie.
attrition. He’s not going to fire anyone, like I would.
But he’s going to fire Obama. WOOHOO!
Obama looks so pissed. And without the teleprompter, he is stumbling for words. And I love Mitt is addressing his comments to Obama.
Do we get extra shots for an entire answer that is summed up by BLAME BUSH
BING BING BING – Obama just launched the BOOOSH DID IT portion of the program.
CRAP!
The jug’s nearly empty.
I’m caught unprepared!
Tax cuts that weren’t PAID for? Every time Obama opens his mouth I am either cringing or cursing at the screen. oh and cuts? How is a decrease in the increase a CUT? FRACK FRACK FRACK.
TELEPROMPTER, WHERE ARE YOU?
I am having a “Meg Ryan in the deli” moment;
Yes, Yes, YES!!!!1
Excellent. “I’ll have what she’s having.”
Seriously…who thinks Obama is a great communicator? Stammer…stumble…sure hope that house in Hawaii is getting move-in ready.
6:25PM It’s… mind-blowing… for lack of a better word, watching Obama trying to run on Clinton’s record. Just…
You really think he’s going to get the OK from Michelle to go full Bubba and do the cigars-and-intern thing?
Obama supports Simpson-Bowles? Who knew?
Obama supports the Simpsons bowling. Hope that helps.
That should be a 900 number…
more math from Romney.
Whoa…fillibustering. The fur is flying. Romney can lay it out there. This rocks.
Cat and mouse.
Damn – Mittens is such a bully!
Go Mitt.
FTFY.
is Lehrer trying to help Obama along?
hahahahaha
Ow Ow OWWWW!
It burns!
The truth hurts. Don’t it?
Why isn’t it done? Why didn’t you follow your own commission for four years?
Mitt looks like he’s having a good time…
I havent seen a sword fight this good since Inigo Montoya came through town.
Excellent.
I don’t want to go down the path to Spain – MONEY!!!!
Is is just me or is Obama stinking up the joint?
Ewww… corporate taxes… evil boogeyman. Big bad oil companies… corporate jets… class warfare has started.
Go Romney….Obama is not making any sense….he can’t process anything without his teleprompter
Mitt is shredding him with numbers and specifics. O had to bring out the corporate jets!
Holy, moly – now Jim Lehrer is giving debating points to Obama – sheesh – “You’re saying it’s got to be balanced….”
Someone get the courtroom scene from Ghostbusters II. Is Jim leading the witness?
Corporate Jets! That’ll solve everything!
“Balanced Approach” is code for “SOAK THOSE EBIL RICH BASTAGES!”
Is that sweat upon His Highnesses brow?
Ha! Ha! Obama starts with his anecdotal people.
Does this guy know how to NOT campaign…I met a teacher once and I was hot for her.
Go, Obama. Trash-talk corporations and business owners. Some more. ‘Cause you haven’t done that enough.
And since you know nothing about business, yes, let’s return to your popular education meme. Fail.
Classic O, go after Big Oil and corporate jets. Government gets more money out of each gallon of gas than the oil companies. Gotta get those talking points in..too predictable.
Obama’s bloviating about a four billion$ tax break for oil companies? Obama spends that much of our money in .0005 seconds.
Oil company make money each time you fill up?
THAT’S THE F’ING POINT YOU marxist!
The point is that he’s an ignorant child who’s never even managed a lemonade stand.
No lemonade stands but he organizes a mean community
Yup…Demanding free drinks cause its so hot and you have “more than you need for yourself”
Effing thief
What is with the Obama gestures today? Looks like he has been playing with playdo all day. His voice is getting higher the longer this goes. Obama is meeting teachers and talking about class size? Should have been debate prepping.
Here comes the class warfare. That is all the Bamster has left in his kit.
Budgets reflect choices and we haven’t had a budget in almost three years. What does that say about our choices. Hello!
WTF!? Did I just hear Lehrer *prompting* Obama on a point?
O is making it clear that he is a community organizer. He is just making stats up.
Romney should have just hit him with the “you are no Bill Clinton.”
I would PAY to have Ryan talk math to me. (Yeah, okay. It’s time to stop drinking now.)
I’m with ya, sister. And I’m not drinking.
Could I watch?
I had thought Romney did poorly often in the Republican Primary Debates. He is walking all over Obama here.
“You pick the losers”!!!!!
Bigger tax breaks for green energy than oil. “You don’t just pick the winners and losers… you pick the losers (solyndra, fisker).” Yes!
Anybody keep track of actual time spent talking by each candidate? Seems to me Obama is filibustering ( like most lefties?).
Lehrer has tried to help guide him with two inserted questions. And another Obama insert on Romney’s dime. We need to get to mutually selected, neutral moderators.
This is what a 3.5 years (and a lifetime before that) of lies catching up to you looks like. A blammering, stammering idiot with two massive ears. This debate is a slaughter…and I’m not just saying that as someone who dearly and deeply hates Dear Reader with every fiber of my being.
yes you are… lol
On energy policy: “You don’t pick winners and losers, you just pick losers!”
Zing!
Hey, Leher, just sit back and enjoy. You’re irrelevant. Let them go at it.
OMG…I think a single tear fell from Obama’s eye.
Obama and Lehrer are drowning.
OMG – (paraphrasing here) “More people making more money = more tax receipts”: Did Mitt just have to explain Econ 101 to Obama?!
Jim Lehrer is not up to the task of controlling the candidates. At. All.
Worst.moderator.ever.
But he reads a mean news summary. At least he still has that.
R: “You don’t pick winners and losers. You pick losers.”
WOW!
“you only pick the losers.” I’m gonna hear that again!
Nice jab Mitt – “you not only pick the winners – you’ve picked the losers – like Solyndra”.
I loved that one!
“I’vebeen in business 25 years, I have no idea what you’re talking about” Bam!
Now he brings up the grandmother… the one who’s suspicious of people not like her.
We agree on Social Security…see I’m just like Mitt. Love Me! and My Grandmother! Who is dead and died before I could implement Obamacare and save her.
Let me start a new conspiracy theory. Remember Bush and his secret mike under his jacket in the Kerry debates? Well, I’d like Mitt to explain what looks like a high tech listening device on his flag pin!
Heeeeeeerrrrrrrreeeeeee’s Grammmmmmmmmmy Obammmmmmmmmmmy!
Social Security is structurally sound? Hold onto yer ass, Barry. Mitt is going to rub your nose in it now.
social security is not structurally sound. You lie.
Is this the grandmother you threw under the bus?
O’s Grandma was a bank vice president and all she had was social security and medicare to tide her over in her retirement? Pleeze… Another whopper from the liar in chief.
Wait? No he’s saying nice things about his “typical white person” grandmother? ‘Bout time.
Lawyers can never win mathematical arguments against businessmen. The Bamster is getting his clock cleaned.
Wow. I AM LOVING this. Mitt is just mopping up the floor with Zero. Every “gotcha” Zero tries to hit Mitt with, Mitt just comes back and bodyslams him on it. He just called him a liar on national TV about that “tax break to take jobs overseas.” !!!
Oh yeah, Medicare’s problem is “overpaying” providers and insurers. Go straight to Single-Payer, Pass Go, Collect $200.
Digging Granny out from under the bus eh?
Mitt has been landing body blow after body blow in just about every segment. Feel like I am watching Apollo pummel Rocky in Rocky I.
Go Mitt
Obama objects to the term “entitlement” – it was the Democrats who insisted on the adoption of that term to keep social programs from being cut. What an ignoramus.
Obama drops names and names what they’ve done polwisebut he clearly doesnt understand the why’s and how’s.
Ss is financially sound. Who knew. He then contradicted himself.
“Ha! Ha! Obama starts with his anecdotal people.”
“People, people who need people….”
Barbara Streisand should be up on that stage instead.
Every time Romney rips on the President they show Obama nodding his head. He looks like a whipped puppy.
attacking Obama on Medicare………finally pointing out the lies Obama has said on that subject…
I notice that Lehr never cuts off the The Won’s bloviating, but tries to cut in/off Romney: BRAVO to Romney for not allowing Lehr to cut him off. And I notice that Zero’s now trying to cut in: what a grade schooler!
Romney’s looking presidential. Obama, as I said, a grade schooler. It’s almost embarrassing–but not quite. And how come Obama just got two and a half minutes re Medicare, while Romney only got two?
We’re watching.
I usually don’t watch presidential debates, but I’m enjoying this one. If Romney is this capable of kicking Obama’s ass with math and statistics, imagine what Ryan will do with Biden.
And Romney has taken control from Lehrer.
Ryan vs. Biden. To quote Mr. T: “my prediction…..pain.”
It’ll be like Mike Tyson vs Woody Allen…
What a lovely image!!
More like the guy who did that neck thing to Andy Kaufmann and shut him up quick.
Now “voucher” is a bad word. School vouchers… evil. Medical vouchers… evil. You decide where to spend your money… evil.
If Obama had a lower golf handicap he’d be doing better at making up random stats
Romney is striking me as being much more reasonable than Obama – but then again it could be the Cabernet.
How can you tell when a black man blushes?
Obama’s shade has changed since the start.
Um ah I have no idea except I hate private markets. I just got schooled.
Dude…your grandmother is gone. Vouchers won’t hurt her. ARP? is that AARP?
Oh Good Jesus.
Romney isn’t killing it as well as he should be, but all the young 20-something lefties on my Facebook friends list say that Obama is Destroying Romney.
LO-Freaking-L.
I don’t normally watch debates – but wow, I must say Mitt is really socking it to Obama with the facts. Obama is bumbling about and Lehrer is really not in control….
“Every time Romney rips on the President they show Obama nodding his head. He looks like a whipped puppy.”
I reckon Obama won’t be getting any tonight from Michelle even if it is their anniversary.
If this was a dogfight, the President would have the throttle in burner twisting and turning on the edge of a stall while Governor Romney would be coasting above and a little behind him with a few degrees of bank on, just enjoying the show before he got down to deciding between guns or a sidewinder…
This isn’t pretty. But life seldom is.
@althouse.
Oh. THAT kind of dogfight. I thought you were talking about a poodle and a German shepherd.
I thought you were referring to Barry and his long lost brother at the dinner table.
Recruiting the younger, healthier, customers – sounds like Obamacare.
Ha! Ha! Like AARP is a neutral, non-partisan party to health insurance that everyone should listen to!
IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT’S JOB TO HIRE TEACHERS!!!
bin laden’s dead but his grandmother lives!
Old people die and young ones stay healthy = medicare becomes solvent.
And by solvent did you mean Solyent Green?
Had to read that three times. Could’ve sworn it said “Stephen Green” Wow. I think I just reached tonight’s vodka limit.
Right there with you. Try spelling it, after a few (ahem).
Mitt: “See? I can invoke Bill Clinton, too!” =^[.]^=
Okay, Barracky boy; Put your Peace Prize on the podium.
People get to make their own choice… Medicare or private insurance. Get rid of ‘em if you don’t like ‘em… try that with government insurance! Private insurance needs to make a profit, but government doesn’t? Government doesn’t have to pay for staff, overhead… oh yeah, those “profits” come from taxes.
Is is just me or is Obama talking really S L O W…
Let me talk about something I learned while organizing a community…PROFIT!
Romney is also using better gestures. Obie just does not understand healthcare. Just does not get it.
limoncello is good
One of the best nights of my life, limoncello, the Trevi fountain, and my wonderful husband….
Um. Would you mind if I watched?
Cosmic. I’ve been looking for a good, homemade limencello recipe. Suggestions?
You need like 12 lemons (those yellow ones) but you only use the most external peel, the rind, no white from the peel, only the yellow. Therefore, clean very well the lemons to remove any pesticide, dirty, wax, etc.
* Put the rinds in a glass bottle with 1 lt of alcohol 95% (edible one), close and let it sit for 10 days in a dark place.
* At the end of the 10 days, prepare a sugar syrup by boiling 1 lt water with 800 grams (i.e. 1,75 lbs) sugar. Let it cool to room temperature.
* filter the rinds out of the alcohol. Add the syrup to the alcohol. Mix and let it sit again for 10 days.
* After that, filter the liquor and it’s ready.
The best way to enjoy it is to drink it very cold.
He’s about ready to start “uhh” -ing….
Romney’s smirk isn’t doing him any favors.
Both these guys are quick on their feet and effective speakers.
What debate are YOU watching?
Huh???
Aloha Bamma
Clean up on keyboard #9.
Obama is so laughable, I keep (nearly) spewing on my keyboard. Go Romney, he just overrode Obama and Lehrer.
Keep. It. Up.
Mittens rule.
Romney seems quite sharp about what he wants to do. Obama seems to have memorized the same talking points for 5 years and has nothing new to provide.
Romney seem so eager to explain and answer questions while Obama seems reserved and eager to move on to the next question.
50 minutes….O going down in flames. Mitt looks like the intelligent adult and O looks like an incompetent child…
Thanks Jim (big grin) for cutting Romney off and tossing the ball to me.
Why is Lehrer only interrupting Romney?
Mitt’s in his OODA Loop!
Yes, Yes, YES!!!
I am starting to wish I was watching the debates right now instead of reading you guys. No, I think you guys are giving better analysis so I’ll stick with. lol
Mitt Romney is very good….he has a command of details as well as overall understanding of the big picture – I don’t usually watch debates, but Mitt is really cleaning up here.
Is Romney debating Lehrer or Obama? I cant tell.
Some from column A and some from column B
Stephen, you nailed it:
6:51PM From the peanut gallery: “Romney is moderating AND participating.”
And doing both pretty well, I might add.
The only way America is growing is the non-stop lava flow in Hawaii.
O wasn’t ready for Dodd-Frank at all, answering specifics w/ BS, at twice the length.
This is hilarious! Hey, Jim, maybe if you tear your shirt off and wrap your tie around your head like a war chief you can assert control.
Mitt has obama on the ropes.
Best line of the night…. you go Steve.
6:50PM It’s gotten so bad, that every time Romney speaks, Obama looks like Martin Landau playing Bela Lugosi jonesing for a heroin fix.
Lehrer is sooooooo trying to save Obama. Interrupting Romney. Wait, banks need to have a living will? Are we doing a mash-up of a couple of debate talking points?
Those eeevil bankers!!!
So, people opening banks in the garage are bad, regulations are good.
While it seems reasonable, who would go to deposit the money in the garage bank? I think more freedom to open garage banks is needed, and if they are better (or worse) than the normal banks, it’s up tp the people (the market) to decide.
Romney looks like a happy warrior. Obama looks like he REALLY doesn’t want to be there.
One has been dreading this, while the other has been looking forward to it. Easy to see which was which. =^[.]^=
Yep, Obama looks tired, rattled, aggravated. Candidate-y, not presidential. Quelle surprise.
Is it my imagination or is Lehrer bumbling and confused? Maybe he just sounds that way. Hard for hin to offer that liberal life line to The One who could use a little help right now.
@182 Not just Obama so does Lehr because Romney keeps calling Obama on his “mis-characterizations”.
Looks like the ‘mobies’ are beginning to infiltrate … welcome democrats; THIS IS HOW WE DO … THIS IS HOW WE DO IT …
Bam always brings up class warfare and regulation. Mitt understands business in ways that Bam and his cronies never will. This one was over after the first 5 minutes. Romney 1, Obama 0
Mitt is schooling Barry, and Lehrer keeps passing O crib notes.
Oh… you guys (and gals) are killing me! LOL I’ve turned off the TV and just keep updating here!
I agree. Who needs to watch an extended hour of Jim Lehrer when you have this insightful and funny commentary! lol
You all rock!
Leher: all right … right … all right … too much clarity here, Mitt … we need to proceed with my choreographed narrative …
ObamaNOTcare. Let’s do this…Round 1. Wait, were are up to 6 smirks from the Eyeshadow Debator. DEATH PANELS! Ding, ding, ding.
Every time President Obama speaks, I drink. Repeal Obamacare!
Am I the only one drinking coffee? More Dodd-Frank debunking…. did anyone else see Obama pick his nose?
Look at that smirk on Obambi’s face. How dare you attack the Messiah’s plans? Not used to anyone openly challenging him.
I think Romney is doing well but I’d kill to hear him count his points with letters for a change.
Hilarious. Health care instead of jobs. A body blow landed by Mittens!
Obama’s just been given nearly four minutes and Leher gave Romney just over one minute to–beautifully–rebut.
Romney’s overriding Leher’s interference and Obama cheerleading.
I’m not even American and I’m really PROUD of Mitt!
uh… uh… uh… keep your kid on your insurance plan until they’re 26 years old. How about your kid getting his/her own job and their own plan?
After the first hour…I dunno…Michelle is shaking her head. Someone is not getting any on his anniversary.
Obama’s gonna be smoking a pack in the dark and finishing off the Grey Goose.
No lubed latex glove for you, Ba-Rack!
Wow … this hour has gone fast …
The egghead professor vs. Someone who’s lived in the real world.
Adali Stevens. Obamacare. He owns it now.
O: I had five seconds before you interrupted me…
Jimbo: Oh you card!
Is bluecheese stuffed olives wrong? Not for me! But Obamacare is not good.
IT IS A GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER WHEN SMALL BUSINESSES HAVE TO DROP HEALTH INSURANCE OR CLOSE SHOP! AND YOU ARE FORCED TO GO TO THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE INSURANCE!
I am watching the debate; wow! Mitt Romney knows what he is talking about and Obama is just going blah, blah, blah, basically saying the same things he said four years ago, and did not do, or did and it did not work…
I had 5 seconds before you interrupted me – that entitles me to another 90 seconds.
R- I’m Bipartisan. you’re partisan. MSM- Partisan means racist.
Does Obomba usually grin this much?
Wow! now Mr. O is cutting off Lehrer….Go Mitt….Massachussettes was bipartisan and worked together rather than pushing through Obamacare in the middle of the night!!!! Go get em tiger!
Has anyone else noticed how our candidate this time (that would be Romney, for the trolls) is LIGHT YEARS better than that bumbling fool (God bless his service) “my friends” McCain?
I actually feel pretty good about our chances in Nov after seeing most of this debate. If you haven’t figured out that Obama is a LYING TWERP after tonight then there is no help for you. Face it, he’s your guy, your lying twerp. You own him.
Nice. “Twerp” is a poorly appreciated and much underused insult.
I think I had Constitutional orgasm hearing Romney school Obama on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And tweaking his nose with ” endowed by our creator!”
Large amount of smirking from Obama as a response to Romney with no eye contact.
And now Mitt Romney is schooling Obama on Mittcare vs. ObamaCare. “We didn’t raise taxes. We didn’t cut Medicare. And oh, BTW, my plan was actually bipartisan. Unlike ObamaCare.”
Hah!
Mittens landed another body blow on the partisan cramdown of ObamaNOTcare. Smirk and anger, not a good combo.
Romney brought the hammer down with his bipartisan support for RomneyCare.
Death panels! Subtle.
Need to address healthcare from the supply side. Can’t increase access to the same system and expect costs to decrease. For this reason alone obamacare falls on its face.
Is it just me? Or do you also think that the President hesitates, then looks down, just before he lies through his teeth?
Romney keeps eyes forward all the time. It’s an interesting difference.
Agree completely. Another “tell”.
No, he breathes first.
You know whats hilarious? Romney is having fun! I haven’t seen a smile like that since Slim Pickens rode the bomb down in “Strangelove”
Federal government for all! Little American Flags for some.
Comment in wrong section was supposed to be RIP Slim!
Obamacare is now a bipartisan plan!! Are you kidding me??
Obama is a douche – but then it could be the Cabernet.
Obama is attempting to defend his record and attacking Romney’s proposals. But making none of his own. So I guess he figures everything has been so great if he’s reelected he can just phone it in. and give us four more of exactly what he has been doing?
Obamacare my favorite thing to hate. My defined benefit retirement plan that I paid into, dumped me because I am disabled, leaving me and 2 kids uninsured. Except when they dumped me, they terminated everything, so it also cost me 1500.00 a month. So now I have less money and will have to find a new policy.
And the defined benefit plan was from a job where I was forced to join a union if I wanted to work there. AFSCME, which got themselves a waiver.
Obama is a big JERK
Thank You
Where’s Obama X by the way?
Americans might have to fend for themselves….the horror!!!
Obama is a skunk–no manners. He’s not even looking at Romney. Now, he’s just looked at Lehrer. What a toddler.
Of course, his “answers” are non-sequitur, full of hot air anecdotals.
Word to Mr. President:
Back in 1978 my high school debate coach would end the debate and declare a winner if she heard the word “etcetera” pass the lips of a speaker.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins were both atrocious spellers. Fitzgerald wrote it as, “ect, ect, ect.”
Romneycare = more customers for evil insurance companies. Um, doesn’t Obamacare mean more customers for insurance companies since everyone has to have it or pay a fine?
– or is it Solyndra?
Healthcare costs have risen slower than past 50yr because inflation, interest rates, and growth have. Relative to them, the rate of growth is high. Relative to disposable income…holy shit.
Obama is still talking twice as long as Romney- or maybe it only seems that way.
Obama just invented a new reality TV show: Here Comes Honey Bobble Bobble
Is the Obama saying that Mitt shouldn’t be elected because he won’t tell us details the same Obama who passed a health care bill that wasn’t read before it was passed?
Just saying, is all…
As others have stated, it will be so interesting to hear an analysis of the body language differences between the candidates….Mitt looks confident and can look people in the eye, our President can’t give eye contact….telling
On Romney: Tell me that Romney is saying what the focus groups want and that he is not a Democrat!
O’bama looks like he is frustrated about having to be on the stage while someone else speaks.
Lehrer: Doormat and biased.
My son catching a snippet of the Presidential debate (talking about President Obama): “for a guy who has had two days to think about this he sure says “uh” a lot”.
From the mouths of babes.
Obama talking about “free enterprise” Are you kidding me???? he doesn’t believe in free enterprise
So did M & O coordinate their tie colors, or did Jim tell them what to wear?
Keep the facts and numbers coming, Mitt!
I wondered the same. I’m sure someone coordinated the combo, so they weren’t dressed exactly alike.
NOTE TO ROMNEY TEAM:
In all Romney suit-’n-tie appearances (including the next 2 debates): Mitt needs to wear navy suit, white shirt, RED TIE. (And next time, aim for a red that matches a high-quality American flag. Blue-red, not orange-red. Or maybe that’s my TV.)
It’s your TV.
Did I just hear him say “The duty of the President is to protect the American people”? Tell that to the late Ambassador Chris Stevens, Mr. President!
Why did they all of a sudden stop doing split screen? Maybe it’s cuz people notice O’s total lack of respect/no eye contact/evil laser beam eyes?
They probably received a bunch of email complaints pointing out their obvious bias by posing O as being the taller man in the split-screen head shots by positioning O’s pic that way, while the stage shots from behind revealed Mitt to clearly be the taller of the two debaters sanding on stage, as our host, VodkaPundit Steven, pointed out at the get go above.
Ends, say hello to Means. They were trying their best to help their Messiah rolling without his teleprompter training wheels on, but Mitt wiped the floor with “Sweetie’s” boy, BHO.
Newt published a great article of advice to Mitt last week at Human Events on how to do this job, and Mitt sure performed tonight like he read the piece and applied it’s message. I never thought Mitt could bring it this good (drink).
Bye-rack, and don’t come back, just go “pick some more losers”,…loser!
Community colleges train people for jobs? Used to be that happened in High School. Now High Schools are a conveyor belt to college (and college loan debt) or a conveyor belt to nowhere.
Quoting the Constitution & DoI? That’s racist!
Proper answer is the federal government has no role in education. But Mittens likes the free market.
And Romney rings the freedom bell, and again on education. And Lehrer tries to be fair. Big O, “denied”, and government will handle education.
Obama is S L O W. Talks slow, slow to make his point.
I’m having a Constitution orgasm listening to Mitt read the preamble with the ” Creator” part intact.
Is it just me or is the President not make any sense
Is it just me or is Obama getting twice the mike time as Romney? I’ll put money on it. Whoever on the Republican side accepted this Democrat tool as moderator is an idiot.
Actually its an audio illusion. Scientists have proven that when The Won starts talking time slows down – the eyes glaze over and your ears start ringing.
Yeah, the filibuster President. Time now: O 38.41, R 34:44
Mitt: “You are entitled to your own plane and your own house, but not your own facts.”
Was this one of the promised zingers?
Boom! Crony capitalism!
Mitt is knocking it out of the park….GO MITT!!!!!
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Yeah, we’ve killed the hamsters.
– Mitt pulled one out of Obama’s ass.
It’s happening to me, too. Yep, overload.
It would appear a significant portion of America is drunk blogging and commenting right here, right now.
And one very small of the UAE in Abu Dhabi.
$90 Billion wasted on green jobs would have hired a lot of teachers.
Highlights Obama’s talking points vs Obama’s priorities
BOOM
“I’ll take advice from Republicans.” Biggest lie of the night.
Jim – ” Uh guys…can I talk now?”
– has just conceded.
Jim Lehrer should retire now
Lehrer should have been put out to pasture years ago.
Whoa. Agree with Sully…Obama just conceded. Romney is going to be busy. Day 1 and every day.
Romney close this out with a big Bang…..we need a better course for America….and Obama is not it!
O doesn’t make a lot of sense, does he? Hesitating. Rambling. Story time. No substance. O’s closing statement, no different, weak. Romney generally strong and clear, and keeping the offensive going as much as possible. Good for him. Better than I expected. Romney doing a good job of wrapping up in closing statement.
Were you fighting, Mr President,
the day our Ambassorder to Libya was killed?
Obama has been waiting all night to say ‘extremist’ too bad he has been so badly spanked it came out as a whimper.
Closing statements were huge. Which one of these guys is president, again? Romeny smoked him.
Stop blinking, Mitt.
Those camera lights are blinding. Nobody can spend 90 minutes with them on without looking like a turn signal.
Remember too Colorado’s very dry climate doesn’t help either.
Mittens exceeded my expectations. Fantastic. Well done!!!
What happened to the drunkblogging? Seems Prof Green disappeared with a half hour left. Someone needs to check into who passed him that tequila.
My call (for all it’s worth): Romney hammered the president.
Go, Mittens!
I could be biased, I didn’t notice Mitt drop any flat lines. I did notice Obama running his usual talking points. If, according to Obama, lack of specifics is a disqualifier, then he too is disqualified for defending all, but proposing nothing new at all
You know whats fun? watching Maddow cry. Its practically as fun as cuddling a warm puppy!
LoL. Better yet: Cuddling a puppy, watching mild Mittens repeatedly punch Obama in the metaphorical nose AND watching Maddow cry. Nirvana. Give me a moment, I want to wallow in the sensation.
Romney 1, Obama 0. This is a joke right? Right? What’s amazing is that this is the first time this fraud has been exposed for what he is. Keep pushing…keep presenting FACTS. They are indeed stubborn things!
Obama. Failure! Well, that is about all I have to say about all of that. ABO2012
If you listened to the audio without watching the video, he sounded a lot like …
wait for it …
Ronald Reagan.
I am old enough to remember Reagan debating Carter and you are absolutely right. If you were just listening to the voice, you could mistake Romney for Reagan. Thought the same thing.
Anyone brave enough to watch MSNBC and see how they spin this disaster?
If you want a good hearty horse laugh, go check out LGF.
Butch & Company are passing the crying towel around,… Fat Ed is in “Shock” at Smirky’s on-stage collapse.
Chris Matthews on MSNBC calls it a Romney win, and the other panelists there seem to agree. :O
Even Sharpton?
Listening to Obama, the Allman Brother’s Rambling Man kept playing in my head…I thought he was going to start filibustering the first 15 minutes – anything but talking about the economy. Obama needed an NCAA bracket to fill out.
I told you Dims that Obama was a lightweight and a sham. And now you can’t deny it, chumps.
Tex, the song I was hearing was, “If I had a Hammer”
(Mitt was the hammer; Obama was the ratty, bent nail)
I kept hearing the Beatles’ “Nowhere Man.” Barry finally gets exposed,…Nice!
You’re both wrong. It was Ride of the Valkyries.
…with napalm, lots of napalm.
Obama’s readying his “I Did It My Way” for his post-presidential performance.
Have to disagree w/ our blogger in chief just a little. Obama looked peeved, but managed to hold his temper. Romney bulldozed the Big O with the facts, but got excited and a bit hyper in the last twenty minutes or so. Romney win, but enough to make a difference? Only to those listening to facts instead of demogoguery, and most of those have decided already.
Rachel Maddow, “… and it was the President’s fault.”
Now the MSNBC meme that they are circling the wagons around is that “Romney won because Romney lied”. Yeah, that will sell on Main St.
Obama says “this is the Romney plan blah blah blah” all stephanie cutter BS. Romney says “no it isn’t”. Obama = deer in the headlights.
Kerry was the prep of Obama. The hautie John Kerry, who served in Viet Nam.
“The hautie John Kerry, who served in Viet Nam.”
He did? I don’t know that? And here I thought he was simply an old, dullard boy-toy for a rich ketchup heiress.
Bottom line: Romney will learn from this. Obama did not.
Stephen, you captured it quite accurately:
“The president appeared small and petulant and reactive. Romney looked presidential and secure and proactive. There was only one president on the stage tonight, and he doesn’t (yet) hold the office.”
Obama looked battered, bef-uh-ddled and beleaguered. Romney looked (dare I say it?) commanding, assertive and in control.
Oh, wait there goes Media Clone (Brian Williams) introducing the “47%” issue. What are the Obama folks paying these guys?! They are so bought it’s embarrassing. Oh, wait, they have no shame.
The spin on MSNBC is simply remarkable. Although Chris Matthews best quote: What was Romney doing? He was winning!
As I recollect it was DEMEROL not heroin that was Bela Lugosi’s fav drug. Of the opiates, imo, demerol is the most “thoughtful”, but blurs the vision. The other drugs he used were methadone and morphine. According to last two minutes of internet searching.
I love coal too. Just ordered my first ton of anthracite for this heating season. You can have my fossil-fuel burning stove when you pry it off my cold dead @$$!
Mitt’s biggest zinger, IMHO, was contrasting the $4 billion a year that Barry wants to levy on oil companies by repealing tax breaks for depletion and depreciation with the $90 billion a year lavished on wind, solar and bio-fuel ventures. The administration wants to cover the latter sum with the former! Math is harrrd…
And wind, solar and biomass are the energies of the future!? No, Mr. President. They are the fuels of the pre-industrial past. We’re not going back!
And he followed up with “and I’ll do away with the 4billion too.”
Probably your best drunkblog ever, even with the missing Rosemary Woods minutes.
bumper sticker: No More Trickle Down Government. Vote Romney.
Well I missed half the drunk blog because the hamsters died. You guys need Costco sized hamsters for the next debate.
It’ll be interesting to see how the leftist media spins this after they’ve gotten over their shell shock. The Obama talking points will come out and they’ll be back on track tomorrow, I’m sure.
Who knew Romney had brass knuckles under his fuzzy mittens?!
Alex, for $ 5,000, I’ll take Petulant Presidents of the 21st Century Who Pick Losers. And,… I hoping for the Daily Double here.
Turned over to CNN to check the post debate coverage. Caught Candy Crowley speaking with David Axelrod. Man, he was dancing faster than a flea on a hot griddle! Kept trying to change the subject whenever Candy asked him about why Obummer was so flat. I actually saw her roll her eyes after about the third time she tried to bring him back to the question.
The media propaganda is now disolving. Many long meetings will be held in morning as media regroups to handle their handwringing dispair and re-labeling. I am sure blama supporters will claim victory and blame will be placed on moderators, weather, and that Romney did not give examples/details. Should be amusing.
obama got toasted.
Romney is a more broader view leader who delivered on facts.
Imagine the damage Ryan, who lives on detailed facts and numbers, will deliver.
Stephen, you are a funny funny man.
I’m on TiVo time here but . . . How much had you to drink by 7:04PM this evening? There was some serious meat to be masticated! Obama has been chirping about how Romney isn’t providing details, yet all Romney is doing is providing details. In my opinion, Romney has to stop playing small ball and go Reagan. Where is the “Shining City on the hill?”
Mr. Green, I would make babies with you after reading your article.
Um. Really, would you mind if I watched? I wouldn’t say anything. I mean, I would be quiet.
“Paralysis is another word for stasis, which is the vil prog end game. It’s a philosophy of modern feudalism” Stephen Green
That’s it. It’s over. Best.Two.Sentences.Ever.
Iowahawk’s gonna wish he wrote that one.
Please give my regards to your liver. And thank you to both of you.
I think some Dem’s a ready for the Kool-Aid right about now!
This SHELLACKING-2012 was brought to you by The DNC, the Mushroom Media, the SIEU and the NEA and by Tolnicnaya Vodka, the vodka of choice when you really need to get sh&tfaced.
Guess I missed the party on this one. Nice fun commentary & a heck of a thread.
Will try to make it for #2, if Obama doesn’t cancel.
Best Regards,
I can hardly wait for Ryan – Biden. THAT will be good.
Overnight excuse for Obama’s lackluster performance from Bill O’Reilly of FOX: Obama was on cold medication. I’ve never known cold meds to make one an arrogant, smirking, sneering narcissist that keeps repeating the same lie 5 times, after being corrected over and over.
Today, Al Gore blamed it on the high altitude.
Oh, thanks for this! I couldn’t bear to watch the debate last night, but I knew I could count on you. I might even watch the next one now.
There was one moment during the Podium Beat-down that I will cherish for the remainder of my years. Romney – in full cannonade – evokes a GRIM SMILE from Barry. Not a pleased smile, not a cordial smile, but a smile that was a cross between Eddie Haskell being caught in a lie and the forced grimace of an ill man who believes that he made have just soiled his linen.
Thanks for the comments folks. I looked at one short clip of BO last night and, without even looking at Romney, absolutely KNEW that BO was toast. Body language, energy, etc. His not looking at his opponent, etc. OVER!
Your comments were brilliant, insightful and extremely funny. Please comment on all debates….makes them almost bearable..thank you!!! N
The last time I saw a wipeout like this was when County Clerk Howard Sprague debated Aunt Bea on the last year of Andy Griffith. She just kept repeating her only talking point, “It’s the will of the people…” When it finished she withdrew from the race.