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In reply to the discussion: People are so proud to declare unhinged lying as winning. Lowering standards. [View all]SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)when they've flow into Denver hours before they begin physical exertion? How do they feel after 24 hours of getting acclimated to the thin air? That is the difference between those two. mittiot was there 24 hours before the debate, so he'd gotten well acclimated to the air. Obama flew in at 2pm the day of.
Obama may have been hanging back... and his strategy may have been to give mittiot enough rope to fashion his own noose. mittiot flat out lied his way through that debate and now his handlers, instead of prepping for the next debate, are going to be spending their time dragging what mittiot said from the middle and back out to the right. mittiot's lies said that he rejected all of the right wing bullshit he's been talking for the last 6 years.
Also, had he lit up mittiot at the first debate, then all the talk would have been about him being a scary, angry black man and nothing would have been said about the substance of what he said. Look at how everyone is acting today: distracted by the shiny, sparkly stuff and not a word on the fact that Obama cut the legs out from under a lot of the lies mittiot told.
Next debate will be closer to sea level and between now and then, mittiot's handler will be living in fear of the damage they've had to control and the damage that is on its way from the next round of lies. By the last debate, Obama will be asking mittiot "how does my ass taste?"