Obama's unfair Debate Advantage

[cthulu2016]

I was thinking about Obama debate prep. It's all political... the right way to phrase something, the best way to rebut something...

Obama is not practicing up on pronouncing the names of countries and memorizing basic statistics about the size of government programs. He is not messing around with a stack of cue-cards saying what his positions are.

That's because he is a smart guy who is actually the President.

Like most smart people, he is able to speak off the cuff about his job. He deals with facts and figures, with the *why* of policies, with the minutiae of process.

The last time we saw an incumbent president in a debate it was W Bush so it's easy to forget that a bright, engaged President actually knows and understands all sorts of job related things.

[porphyrian]

1. True. n/t

[etherealtruth]

2. Obama's debate advantage ...?

He is extremely bright, truly empathetic, charismatic .... and it doesn't hurt that he is physically attractive.

[Volaris]

6. It also doesn't hurt that he, like ALL politicians of the most talented order,

knows how to get away with being a completely ruthless, cutthroat son-of-a-bitch to the opposition, and not come off looking like a dick to We The People=). And don't kid yourself, this IS the President who turned the job of Al Qaeda number 2 into the new "Most Dangerous Job on the Planet" and had a bullet put through Bin Laden's head, and that, mostly between being an attentive Husband, loving Father, saving the auto industry for at least another working generation, navigating the Nation through the worst economy since the Great Depression, and not just tolerating but actually trying to work well with an Opposition Congressional Party that would just as soon watch him get hit by a bus than make any attempt at actually co-governing while he is still on the job.
That's indicative of a man with Steel in his spine, Iron in his bones, a mind capable of being both a laser scalpel AND a sledgehammer, and a well-enlightened Heart that has shed what seems to be almost ALL Human Fear.
Debate advantage? Yeah. That's an UNDERSTATEMENT.
And Romney and Crew have no idea what kind of Middle Class Warrior/Defender is coming for them, with Shields to Maximum, Phaser banks fully charged, and Torpedo Tubes 1 through 4 "Loaded and Ready to Fuck Some Shit Up". (Katherine Janeway eat your heart out hahahahah.)

[enough]

7. +1 thanks (nt)

[monmouth]

3. Very true and he needs to be careful with those smarmy moderators who would jump on him in a

heartbeat if he comes off too "sure of himself, cocky, arrogant in his know-it-all way." You know the media, they'll be waiting.

[madokie]

4. The last of my worries is how Obama will do

he'll wipe the floor with rMoney's sorry ass is what he'll do. He'll do it with a smile on his face all the while. The republicon ticket will cry foul but it will fall of deaf ears. We done good when we elected this man and he'll do us proud come Wednesday evening, that you can bet on.
I'll be surprised if robme will want to get back in the ring with President Obama after the drubbing he'll take. IMO

[DemzRock]

5. Obama's unfair advantage is the truth and facts!

But lucky for Romney, he knows how to "fact check" with em-pathetic zingers!