“Massacre! Massacre!”
Romney’s aides and surrogates sprinted into the spin room to offer effusive assessments of their candidate’s performance, and Fox News contributor Juan Williams was caroling “Massacre! Massacre!” to himself as he bounded out of the men’s restroom. Obama’s team didn’t meet the press for a full 10 minutes — and one top Democrat, asked to say the best thing about the president’s performance, said Obama has been “just working to maintain cool and be reassuring” in an email to POLITICO.
“Look, Romney was always going to have a good night on style points,” conceded Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who still judged his boss to be the winner. “I’ve been telling you guys that for a very long time, but look, we won this debate tonight because we talked directly to the American people about plans. Romney couldn’t do it. He stayed on defense the entire time. He couldn’t lay out a tax plan that made any sense. You know he spent a bunch of time trying to defend his Medicare positions in states like Ohio and Florida; that’s gonna be a real problem for him.”
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Got to love the smell of fried “O” in the morning.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on October 4, 2012 at 10:31 AM
hehe
faraway on October 4, 2012 at 10:34 AM
That Pretenders song keeps going around in my head: “Back on the Choom Gang”
SailorMark on October 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM
This was just a debate–can you imagine the whining and crying and lamenting and screeching we’ll be hearing from them on the morning of Nov 7 after Obutthead has been unelected? THAT will be sweet.
stukinIL4now on October 4, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Obama = Loki
Romney = The Hulk
We all know how THAT came out.
ZK on October 4, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Hasn’t anyone figured out that FOX is paying Juan to take these positions? I think he’s getting seven figures for his work. For that money he’ll read their script to make it appear there’s a liberal pro Obama guy on staff who gets a lot of air time. For that kind of money I’d take that job, even if night after night I looked dumber than a bag of hammers.
xkaydet65 on October 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Baseball Crank made a good point on Twitter:
We now have a string of bad Obama performances to judge him on: the “You Didn’t Build That” speech, his lackluster DNC convention speech, and now this debate. He just isn’t cutting it in person this year. There is zero reason to think he will do any better in the other two debates.
This is the result of four years of aides shutting him off from the press, and a year arranging softball interviews with The View and GLAMOUR. He really doesn’t know what he’s talking about and is not convincing. He cannot respond coherently to any challenge of his talking points and strawman-burning. He doesn’t appear like he really even wants the job.
He is Chauncey Gardiner.
rockmom on October 4, 2012 at 12:02 PM
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