Obama resetting his campaign after the debate or something
At first, Obama didn’t think his performance was a complete disaster. But he began Thursday morning by watching excerpts of his own performance and was especially struck by his own tentative, grim demeanor — especially when he and a more relaxed Mitt Romney were broadcast in split-screen. It was worse than he thought, according to one person close to the situation. He was subdued but positive on a conference call with staff. …
His mood was radically different Thursday — not just calm but buoyant, loose, focused. It reminded several aides close to the president of his response to Hillary Clinton’s stunning comeback win in the New Hampshire primary in 2008. It’s a cliché in his camp that Obama only feels really motivated when his own destruction is in sight, but the magnitude of his lousy performance clearly motivated him as he plunged back into campaigning. …
With Obama, it’s not just about will — it’s always about mood, too. For all that’s been written about his flop in front of roughly 67 million viewers, the reality, according to the people who know him best, is that he just wasn’t in the right headspace. The president had too many conflicting thoughts bouncing around his head and could never quite reconcile his desire to attack Romney with his fear of alienating voters by appearing angry or unpresidential. The result was a muddle that has given Romney new life.
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He’s always had life. It’s just that some were not paying attention.
rich801 on October 6, 2012 at 10:10 AM
It was the altitude, stupid.
petefrt on October 6, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Resetting his campaign = lying on the stump with even greater vigor.
Kataklysmic on October 6, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Obama is not the political god the left wants him to be. He’s lazy, of average intelligence and let’s his ego control him. No amount of spin can change that.
darwin on October 6, 2012 at 10:13 AM
That would explain Benghazi…
BDU-33 on October 6, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Yup, that’;s it alright. Wrong head, wrong space. So as of now these idiots are telling us that the fate of the entire free world is in the possession of a man who depends on “headspace” to function? Now that’s a scary concept right there.
MikeA on October 6, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Just seeing them repeating the same outlandish lies and personal attacks. So where the reset?
bayview on October 6, 2012 at 10:18 AM
So….. what? His record will get retroactively better before the next debate? Or is he going to smile more when falling back on the same BS talking points?
landshark on October 6, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Obama’s not capable of engaging the opposition in an honest way. Instead it’s smears, race-baiting, ridicule, straw men, put-downs, lies, class warfare, caricaturing … anything but true dialog.
Paul-Cincy on October 6, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Wow those folks have a gift for writing, don’t they? LOL! Yeah, more like he threw a day long tantrum and smoked like a chimney? If the subsequent whine and defensiveness are any indication, he was hardly “calm and buoyant.”
dogsoldier on October 6, 2012 at 10:20 AM
When can we expect to see Kunta Kinte and/or Kelvin Mitchell (or even one of them, since they are probably both the same person)”admitted” to the HA “contributors” (rather than their FB droppings)so that we can have a new crr6 or getalife to “bat around”?
Clink on October 6, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Wow, sounds like a great attribute to have in a President. Explains all the golfing I guess.
Fabozz on October 6, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Someone had slipped him a bad doobie.
petefrt on October 6, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Is this a news story or an excerpt of the draft script for the next Obamamovie?
Dusty on October 6, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Evidently, Obama didn’t spend Wednesday night sleeping with Mooch. He spent it with his head in Valerie Jarrett’s lap getting reassured and having some chocolate milk with his favorite kind of cookie…watching Sesame Street.
BuckeyeSam on October 6, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Great article explaining why Zero won’t be able to “reset” anything:
How the Liberal Media Ruined Obama
A taste:
Rational Thought on October 6, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Hey, Kelvin Mitchell, so the mission all along was to end up where he began just as the clock runs out? Some mission. Ooh. What a man.
Americans agree we can do a lot better than a Chicken Nugget economy. That’s your man’s great accomplished mission. Heckofajob.
Now where’s your butt buddy, Kunta ‘slave mentality’ Kinte?
RepubChica on October 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM
I’ll add that I noticed that when Obama gets nailed to the wall by facts, he tries to change the subject. It’s rare to find these instances because he’s rarely in a forum where anyone challenges him. But I remember his celebrated Blair House conference on Obamacare when Ryan started going after him on some facts, and Obama suddenly declared that he didn’t want to get so far in the weeds–at a conference where they were supposed to get in the weeds. Then, on Wednesday, he pulled out that line to Lehrer of moving on to the next question.
BuckeyeSam on October 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Meh. He knew from the start that the juju wouldn’t be with him forever. Say, Rahm has been pretty quiet.
Seth Halpern on October 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Valkyriepundit on October 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Going for the Comeback Kid meme. I doubt that was the plan all along, it’s just all Obama has left. The problem is he has to absolutely trounce Romney in the next debate without overcompensating and looking desperate. Seems unlikely.
SAZMD on October 6, 2012 at 10:45 AM
That is a good piece. I love the closing:
Kataklysmic on October 6, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Ha! Barack’s million dollar donor Maher: ‘Looks Like He Took My Million and Spent it All on Weed’
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Yeah, Bill. When you give a million bucks to a pot head…well, duh!
Rational Thought on October 6, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Like an etch-a-sketch?
Ben Hur on October 6, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Yeah, uh, suuure. Campaigning is the only thing that motivates him these days.
Lol. What? That concern of appearing “unpresidential” has never bothered him before the debate. He demagogues morning, noon, and night.
The O Team will say anything, anything (see: lies, pathological) to see what sticks.
70+ million people witnessed what most of us already knew: Obama is a poseur, a community organizer at his core, inept and unqualified for this job….an empty chair.
conservative pilgrim on October 6, 2012 at 10:50 AM
That’s the advice from Ice-T. Stay away from the weed “homie”! Really?
conservative pilgrim on October 6, 2012 at 11:04 AM
That’s the first time I’ve ever found Bill Maher funny.
Naturally Curly on October 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM
obama was thinking he had this won without any effort. lazy bum!
nathor on October 6, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Everyone knows that Obama is a flat track bully…actually he’s not even that. This guy has managed to find a way to start every political campaign from the “ladies tees” while his competitors have had to start from the “tournament tees”. For the first time, he had to face an opponent without the luxury of one of his minions being able to grease the track enough to rub out the competition before the race had started. And he got blown out. Alice Palmer, Blair Hull and Jack Ryan all had the Axelrod machine running interference. Alan Keyes, Hillary Clinton and John McCain had some interference, but more importantly, were completely incompetent. Barack had the flat track, the others always had their feet tied, on oily tracks with steep inclines. Put BHO on the same track with someone of even severely limited intelligence and the community organizer comes always second best. Why would anyone be surprised by Wednesday’s performance?
fitzfong on October 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM
He can try and reset it, but I think it’s stuck permanently on flashing 12:00.
Flange on October 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM
Obama loves debating evil White strawman that only exist in his head. That’s what gets him fired up.
OxyCon on October 6, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Well that explains the last 4 years.
Key West Reader on October 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM
I’m sure Team Obama right now is also figuring out if they can somehow still game the Town Hall debate coming up the week after next. Finding ‘undecided’ questioners (who the day after the debate will turn out on their Facebook page to be mega-fans of ever MSNBC prime-time host) to ask Romney the types of netroots questions the president would have loved to have asked on Wednesday, but couldn’t because even he and his staff know a president mouthing Larry O’Donnell or Chris Matthews talking points isn’t going to look too good to the real swing voters.
jon1979 on October 6, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Obama’s destruction — bad!
Destruction of the economic health of the country — whatEVUH!
Paul-Cincy on October 6, 2012 at 11:38 AM
We the People know our choice in Nov. and going forward.
Politico and the others of the msm protection racket commie cover crowd have choice too.
Will they go ahead and try to make a living (profit and jots) off the loon left 25% of America that makes up the commie Decocrat party Obama cult.
They will all starve and end up on the Democrat party dole but it might just cut out any more Bill Marr’s etal having any money at all to use after food and shelter. After all Chicago ain’t such a big deal in the whole scheme of things.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on October 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM
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