Has anyone watched the debate with the sound off to study the body language?

[Baitball Blogger]

Mitt Romney was intentionally trying to invade Obama's space and just stare him down. And Obama held his ground, and gave back a little something, something.

But here's the thing, for the rest of us in the real world, this intimidation tactic comes in a multiple of ways. Though usually, what Mitt tried to do as one person, we have to deal with in packs. As a pack, they twist the truth and come at you in numbers, undermining your credibility so that no one will listen.

So, to see it in a presidential debate, it just sends shivers up my spine.

On the bright side, if that's the only game they have against Obama, from this point on it will make them look foolish.

[mucifer]

1. Just makes me sick that body language trumps issues and fact checking in our society.

President Obama had poor body language in the first debate. He looked very passive.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. He's a quick learner.

Or more to the point, he just took the second debate seriously.

[Tsiyu]

17. The quick learner part I was thinking myself

Now he's seen how Romney will play the game; Obama will beat him at his own game.

I believe the president was just as serious at the first debate, but I believe he was being a statesman, not a wolf. He was being a president, not the legacy frat member during rush week at Ole Miss that Mitt was channeling.

Hell, I won't even give Mitt that.

Mitt's more like a pimp on the corner, trying to intimidate everyone who walks by; in both debates he shows a lack of boundaries and common respect for others.

[tridim]

2. There were some split screens where Willard looked like death.

He was trying to do the creepy grin thing he did in the first debate but his face just wasn't cooperating.

Doesn't Faux usually bring in a body language "expert"?

[Baitball Blogger]

5. He did seem to have trouble with that bar stool.

I can tell you, that with my sugar problems, I have trouble sitting on bar stools from time to time. It messes with my equilibrium.

I'm guessing that his nerves were doing the same thing to him.

[Tribetime]

13. I still say his man girdle was too tight..his image is everything

[yankeepants]

3. If this had been one of his business meetings

He would have made Obama sit in a low chair while he stood behind and to the side of him until the closing and then he would have poked him in the chest with his finger until he was dismissed.

Prick.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Major Prick.

This guy is so accustom to having the power to humiliate people, that he doesn't know how to shut it off.

Well, since he won't win as president, he might try out to be a Dance Mom.

[JanMichael]

6. Did you see the part where he aggressively approached

Candy C's desk to "protest" the fact check about the terrorist comment? That's what bothered me. I mean, it was like watching a CEO get challenged by a receptionist at a power lunch.

God, he's ugly.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I definitely raised my opinion of Candy Crowley,

because, let's face it, this guy tries to intimidate the ref to throw the game his way.

[LovePeacock]

8. Rmoney would look like an asshole even if he was fast asleep.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. His son looks even more frightening.

There's a photo of the son staring Obama down from the stands. Scary look on his face.

[NotThisTime]

10. I'm glad Obama could look at him eye to eye and stare him down, something he did not do in the first

debate. Feisty Obama is okay with me.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. Obama made me proud last night.

The man has cojones. Oigame mis hermanos y hermanas latinas.

[nc4bo]

11. The RW spin machine said POTUS wasn't a real man.....or something.

I won't go there but I'm sure Romney & Co. realize they got it all wrong.

[JDPriestly]

12. Romney needs to take a drug test. During the debates he acts like he is on some kind of

stimulant. I doubt that he drinks coffee, but he is extremely jittery and nervous and interrupts all the time. He seems to have no self-control.

I wonder if they have him on some sort of steroid or something.

[Prism]

16. I watched it close captioned at the gym

The body language was much, much different this time. Rather than authoritative, Romney came off as jumpy and bullying. There were times where he looked like he wasn't entirely sure where he was going or what he was doing, and on account almost seemed kind of lost while standing there. He was definitely shrinking into a kind of pissy defeatism towards the end.

The President, on the other hand, had a kind of expression of 1. "I'm having none of this." and 2. "Look at this fool."

It was quite a difference from last time.