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President Obama debates and Big Bird
Since I live alone I am limited with whom I can have a healthy debate and there is a part of me that is sorry to report that fact. Like many Americans who care to vote with as much information at their disposal as possible, I watched the debates in hopes of gleaning more from each candidate since we are only thirty days away (basically) from the election that could very well change the world as we know it. What I saw didn't surprise me in the least. I am not ashamed or embarrassed to admit because I live in a "red" state that I am a registered Democrat and have typically voted down party lines. I will also admit that despite what I saw and what I am going to see in the upcoming debates, I was not going to be swayed regardless. Alright I prefaced all that to say this, I still would've voted for President Obama based solely on that performance and here is why.
Firstly I thought my President was a class act by not attacking Mitt Romney's obvious open wounds, i.e. comments he made on the video about the 47%, the outsourcing of jobs, and the flip flopping on issues, or his lack of an opinion, etc. Only a bully kicks a man when he is down, and all national polls showed Mitt down for the count. It would've been all to easy for the President to saunter in and throw down the gauntlet and ravage Mitt, but he didn't, he smiled and nodded and just "LISTENED", and took notes; he didn't engage or react or "lose it". As always my President was cool, calm and collected and only became noticeable agitated a couple of times; now he is being widely criticized for his "professorial" demeanor; really? I mean really? This is the very same man everyone seemed to want to watch gut Mitt Romney, who has his finger on the trigger of every nuclear weapon in our arsenal but we begrudge him his nonchalant attitude when faced with an inferior foe in a benign setting; well I should hope that would be the case as well as the norm! You see what the President acknowledged was that there was nothing to get all worked up over and he was certainly NOT going to go off half cocked and start spouting off without first carefully considering his words, (unlike Mitt) he knows that a: there are fact checkers, and b: this President, hell, ANYWAY sitting President doesn't have the luxury of losing his temper and going on the defensive because a smart President knows if he mispeaks even once he could set the market into a free fall or make overseas investors nervous, when Mitt is talking he's just tilting at windmills.
Secondly folks, here's the thing; did you NOT notice all the effing notes President Obama was taking?! Do you think he was just doodling or making his grocery list? No!!! Ask anyone who's a boxer or playing a pick up game down at the park court; first round you let your opponent lead, see where he's coming from, let him wind himself, let him give all he's got in his arsenal, and make all the stake holders and weak bellied guys quake in their boots, thinking their guys going to lose, or worse take a dive, you don't know our President if you think that's even CLOSE to his style my friend. Don't you think Mitt was lulled just a tad into complacency? You KNOW he walked in there armed and dangerous for a quick come back on all the topics EVERYONE has been trashing him on, but every minute that crept by without even a mention or hint that the President was going to get dirty, or throw Mitt's "most embarrasing campaign misteps" in his face, that he went on the attack, and that my dear readers, I think was the Presidents' hope.
Here's what I think happened when he left that night, he and his advisors got together and went point for point and that we will all see a VERY different man at the podium. I believe he will mention everything Mitt feared he would in the first debate, and then some. Mitt had is 15 minutes, and they're officially up. The President smiled and humored you and let you have just enough rope to hang yourself and you walked right into it.
I am shocked and saddened that so many supporters of the President didn't catch on to the play fake, it was classic, it was elegant, it was timeless, it was President Barack Obama's signature style, plain and simple. Relax and breathe and have a little faith, this was the first round and I for one give my President an A+.
P.S.
When the President jokes about Mitt's attack on Big Bird, I don't think people are getting the irony, he isn't saying "ha ha Mitt is dumb" he's saying "folks, when asked directly HOW Mitt would avoid raising taxes, his go to??? Cut funding to a program that utilizes .00012 percent of the Federal budget? Yeah that's a winner". I get why Mitt supporters are using that joke and leveraging it to the hilt, because you can't bank on your guy.
That's my two cents for what it's worth.
Firstly I thought my President was a class act by not attacking Mitt Romney's obvious open wounds, i.e. comments he made on the video about the 47%, the outsourcing of jobs, and the flip flopping on issues, or his lack of an opinion, etc. Only a bully kicks a man when he is down, and all national polls showed Mitt down for the count. It would've been all to easy for the President to saunter in and throw down the gauntlet and ravage Mitt, but he didn't, he smiled and nodded and just "LISTENED", and took notes; he didn't engage or react or "lose it". As always my President was cool, calm and collected and only became noticeable agitated a couple of times; now he is being widely criticized for his "professorial" demeanor; really? I mean really? This is the very same man everyone seemed to want to watch gut Mitt Romney, who has his finger on the trigger of every nuclear weapon in our arsenal but we begrudge him his nonchalant attitude when faced with an inferior foe in a benign setting; well I should hope that would be the case as well as the norm! You see what the President acknowledged was that there was nothing to get all worked up over and he was certainly NOT going to go off half cocked and start spouting off without first carefully considering his words, (unlike Mitt) he knows that a: there are fact checkers, and b: this President, hell, ANYWAY sitting President doesn't have the luxury of losing his temper and going on the defensive because a smart President knows if he mispeaks even once he could set the market into a free fall or make overseas investors nervous, when Mitt is talking he's just tilting at windmills.
Secondly folks, here's the thing; did you NOT notice all the effing notes President Obama was taking?! Do you think he was just doodling or making his grocery list? No!!! Ask anyone who's a boxer or playing a pick up game down at the park court; first round you let your opponent lead, see where he's coming from, let him wind himself, let him give all he's got in his arsenal, and make all the stake holders and weak bellied guys quake in their boots, thinking their guys going to lose, or worse take a dive, you don't know our President if you think that's even CLOSE to his style my friend. Don't you think Mitt was lulled just a tad into complacency? You KNOW he walked in there armed and dangerous for a quick come back on all the topics EVERYONE has been trashing him on, but every minute that crept by without even a mention or hint that the President was going to get dirty, or throw Mitt's "most embarrasing campaign misteps" in his face, that he went on the attack, and that my dear readers, I think was the Presidents' hope.
Here's what I think happened when he left that night, he and his advisors got together and went point for point and that we will all see a VERY different man at the podium. I believe he will mention everything Mitt feared he would in the first debate, and then some. Mitt had is 15 minutes, and they're officially up. The President smiled and humored you and let you have just enough rope to hang yourself and you walked right into it.
I am shocked and saddened that so many supporters of the President didn't catch on to the play fake, it was classic, it was elegant, it was timeless, it was President Barack Obama's signature style, plain and simple. Relax and breathe and have a little faith, this was the first round and I for one give my President an A+.
P.S.
When the President jokes about Mitt's attack on Big Bird, I don't think people are getting the irony, he isn't saying "ha ha Mitt is dumb" he's saying "folks, when asked directly HOW Mitt would avoid raising taxes, his go to??? Cut funding to a program that utilizes .00012 percent of the Federal budget? Yeah that's a winner". I get why Mitt supporters are using that joke and leveraging it to the hilt, because you can't bank on your guy.
That's my two cents for what it's worth.
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