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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Fri Nov 8, 2013, 10:44 PM Nov 2013

NY Magazine excerpt from Double Down

http://nymag.com/news/features/heilemann-halperin-double-down-excerpt-2013-11/

The Intervention
He’d blown the first debate. Now he was on the verge of blowing the second and risking his reelection. In an excerpt from their new book, Double Down, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann describe the moment when a president was talked away from the edge.

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NY Magazine excerpt from Double Down (Original Post) LiberalElite Nov 2013 OP

I read on DU that he actually WON the 1st debate BIG TIME, in a 3D chess sort of way Doctor_J Nov 2013 #1

Dd you really, now? ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2013 #2

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

1. I read on DU that he actually WON the 1st debate BIG TIME, in a 3D chess sort of way

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Sat Nov 9, 2013, 02:26 PM

Nov 2013

by showing that even when he looks like a clueless, stuttering imbecile, he's still more likeable than Willard.

However it actually happened, I'm glad it did. The president is a conservative and more sizzle than steak, but having a Repuke as president at this moment would be the final nail in our mass coffin.

1StrongBlackMan

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2. Dd you really, now? ...

Reply to Doctor_J (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 10, 2013, 10:12 AM

Nov 2013

I must have missed those posts.

While President Obama may be more conservative than YOU, he is far from a conservative ... and his accomplishments suggest a lot of steak to that sizzle.

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