Obama: Guy On Stage Was Not The ‘Real Mitt Romney’

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13. that's what critics are missing here

. . . those types of attacks are put into their equalizing basket and dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Moreover, it isn't as if the President was going to win over voters by using his introductory debate to posture as some kind of desperate attack dog. His strategy was to present his OWN agenda without the distraction of being the one to prove Romney a liar in that debate, The press is all over the substance of their remarks and it just isn't necessary or even prudent for Obama to allow himself to get played out of position by Romney's obvious lies.

And critics forget that the burden was on Romney to launch desperate-looking attacks. The challenge for the President was to appear ABOVE the ignorant fray and represent his own position and character in this introductory debate without looking like just another attacking politician. The focus was on 'undecideds' and Romney did little except, perhaps, bolster his base. he loses, in the long run, because there will be a steady rain of accountability from where it is most effective: from the press. Pres, Obama is correct in making them the down-and-dirty arbiter of the facts in these encounters.