2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAll democrats should remember the President is not a good debater plain and simple
thats why when Ed Schultz was talking smack about how Obama was going to wipe the floor with Romney I knew he didn't know what the fuck he was talking about.As Mike Papantonio reminded him on his show the other day Hillary wiped the floor with Obama in every debate and didn't dominate in one debate. When he ran against McCain he was OK in the debates but it wasn't a knockout the park performance.The President is better on the campaign trail than one on one with an opponent.I wasn't surprised at how he performed maybe the solution is for him to get off the campaign trail for a week and practice for that whole week long. He won't have the chance to go one on one again with Romney until the foreign policy debate which is at the end of this month.The next debate is all town hall where town hall participants will be asking questions.Romney won't have the opportunity to do what he does go in and dominate over everybody because of the setting.Hopefully who ever the moderator is they have some kind of control.To be honest I didn't like the moderators that were picked for all three debates.They should have had at least one African American moderator. The first debate should have been two moderators instead of one.The debate questions were HORRIBLE but what do you expect when you pick a 70 something white male to moderate a debate.
Big Blue Marble
(5,093 posts)bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)Big Blue Marble
(5,093 posts)Jack Sprat
(2,500 posts)he has to debate a chameleon who is constantly changing positions even on major issues.
VirginiaTarheel
(823 posts)And prepare for debates with Bill Clinton and James Carville. The election will be determined by how he does in remaining debates.
railsback
(1,881 posts)Then he can get all hyper and ramblin' and shit like Mittens. Yeah, that's the ticket. BE LIKE MITT.
VirginiaTarheel
(823 posts)The fickle voters are clearly swayed by superficial presentation.
railsback
(1,881 posts)Even in jest.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)he was lighting up the crowd in Colorado (Denver?) with a fiery speech.
Where was the passion Wednesday night?
He can do it if he wants to.
think_cubed
(3 posts)If debates were that influential , we would be talking about Newt Gingrich instead of Mitt Romney ..