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Managing Expectations: Team Obama Paints Romney as Best Debater in History

RockinRickOwen Wrote: Oct 01, 2012 8:02 AM
His job isn't to worry about anybody's prosperity. That's not a power or responsibility granted to the Federal Government by the U.S. Constitution. His concern is to make sure our rights and our borders are secure, and to manage the affairs of state. What we do within our borders, and with our rights, so long as we do not violate the rights of others, is our concern, not his. Those of us who wish the country to managed by a proper chief executive, rather than a pontificating, smothering, recklessly indulgent uncle, strongly prefer that sort of cold-heartedness.

For all President Obama's rhetorical gifts -- and despite the fact that he was widely viewed as the winner of all three presidential debates in 2008 -- Democrats appear to be engaged in a campaign of expectation-managing ahead of the upcoming matchups between Obama and Mitt Romney. Indeed, as the president's press team to his debate prep partern John Kerry would have it, Romney is a veritable reincarnation of one of history's greatest debaters, Abraham Lincoln himself.

Here's John Kerry opining on Romney's "mad skillz" at the podium (h/t Erika Johnsen):

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