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The Denver Debate: A Second Look

Highsider Wrote: Oct 07, 2012 9:34 PM

peering down trying to read something! The debate moves on to where the candidates are asked to respond to each other, and the shift to split screen takes place. As we watch on the split screen, we can see Governor Romney looking down briefly to scribble notes occasionally. In fact we can sometimes see his microphone shake a bit with the reaction to his writing. At around 10 minutes we begin to see Obama peering down for long periods, trying desperately to read what is on his cheat-a-prompter. This just keeps happening throughout. SURPRISE to the Obama team……. Looking down so much as he tries to read that secret teleprompter, makes him look more lame than if he’d just kept his head up and ad-libbed.

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The Denver Debate: A Second Look

The first presidential debate of 2012 is now behind us.

And Republican challenger Mitt Romney won it handily.

No one challenges this verdict. Even President Obama’s most ardent supporters concede it by way of the truly laughable excuses to which they’ve resorted in accounting for the decisive drubbing that their candidate received.

But while the conventional wisdom concerning the victor is sound enough, the conventional wisdom concerning the debate’s loser is not so much.

Obama, we are told, was “off his game.” From Denver’s altitude to personal family issues, every conceivable rationale has been offered by the President’s...

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