Debate questioner who asked how Mitt is different from Bush is voting for Obama

[TroyD]

10/17/12

The presidential debate on Tuesday helped one undecided questioner from the audience make up her mind.

Susan Katz, who asked GOP nominee Mitt Romney how he would operate differently than former President George W. Bush, said Wednesday she is going to vote for President Barack Obama.

“I think [Obama] has matured tremendously,” Katz said on CNN. “There’s no question that we expected more from him. I voted for him the first time, I had great hopes for him. I’m disappointed, and when and I got the phone call from the Gallup poll, I was truly, truly undecided. … I saw in President Obama someone who has ripened with time. He deserves another four years to see his vision through.”

Katz said she was disappointed Romney decided to go back to attack the president instead of immediately answering her question.

“I was disappointed that the governor chose to first rebut what the president had been saying prior to my question being addressed to him,” Katz said. “That seems to be his style. I found that disappointing. I thought the governor did a good job of laying out some ways he would function differently than President Bush had. Basically, throughout the night, I found it disconcerting that the governor needed to control things. That was a problem for me, and that was evident in the way he first answered my question.”

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[budkin]

1. Obama did his job... answered the question.

Facts were delivered.

[WI_DEM]

2. I hope that is indicative of other undecided voters, too.

[TroyD]

4. Hard to say

I think she voted for Obama in 2008, so she was open to doing so this time, but wanted to give Mitt a chance.

[Cha]

3. romney's nothing but a Bully Putz.. glad

that came through to those who didn't seem to have a clue about what he really is.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Always has to have the last word, didja noitce?

Any parent watching could clearly recognize MitTwit's juvenile behavior.

[Cha]

9. And, beautiful that "the last word" was delivered by

Pres Obama..

In all phases of the debate, Obama looked like he had done nothing but watch Facebook and other social media outlets, taking in every complaint from every blogger and commentator on discussion threads. He spoke to Mitt Romney’s complete lack of credibility on women’s issues and had specifics examples, de-funding Planned Parenthood for starters, that demonstrated Mitt’s duplicity. Romney, tried as he might to disengage from answering the questions, was caught in a couple of key moments in his previous positions, no more devastatingly than in Obama’s final remark of the night, in which Romney was indicted by the commander-in-chief himself for his “47%” remarks.

h/t babylonsistah http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=151352

[patrice]

5. Romney did not care that "answering" the previous question first was insulting to Susan K. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

7. He often didn't answer many of the voter's questions.

[patrice]

10. That's completely true. I noticed that several times. He said nothing all night but, TTE ...

"I know how to do that (whatever)" and "I will incentivize job 'creation'", i.e. more tax breaks + subsidize "defense" spending/war.

[courseofhistory]

8. This insult is typical of

the way Mitt Romney operates. What HE wants comes first, period!