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In reply to the discussion: Can we all agree to stand our ground after the next debate? [View all]NJCher
(42,873 posts)79. the only thing willard didn't do is wag his wienie
I dare anyone to stand up to a bullying asshole who yells over you at every turn or just ignores you.
Romney's behavior was so unacceptable, so out of the norm, so unprofessional, so dishonest, and so "out there" that any normal person would be taken aback, to put it mildly. And to add a particularly complex element to it, this took place on the national stage. One dare not even sigh or it will be a national issue.
Years later, people are still talking about Al Gore's sigh.
So Obama does what a thinking person would do in such a situation--he tries figure out what the hell this nutcase is doing. Days later we still don't have a handle on what the nutcase was doing yet we expect Obama to have had a grip on it immediately.
Oh, and to have acted appropriately.

Cher
Romney's behavior was so unacceptable, so out of the norm, so unprofessional, so dishonest, and so "out there" that any normal person would be taken aback, to put it mildly. And to add a particularly complex element to it, this took place on the national stage. One dare not even sigh or it will be a national issue.
Years later, people are still talking about Al Gore's sigh.
So Obama does what a thinking person would do in such a situation--he tries figure out what the hell this nutcase is doing. Days later we still don't have a handle on what the nutcase was doing yet we expect Obama to have had a grip on it immediately.
Oh, and to have acted appropriately.

Cher
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Polls are tighter. No doubt about it. And the press has been good for Romney for the first time....
Logical
Oct 2012
#21
Obama kicked Mittens ass. Though it takes smart people looking 9 steps ahead to see it
graham4anything
Oct 2012
#31
No, because that's nonsense. No one "fed him to the wolves." The debate did not go well.
DirkGently
Oct 2012
#25
ABSOLUTELY agree. I was so sorry that I even read DU as the debate was progressing
Raine
Oct 2012
#51
As the next one is town-hall format, I expect less opportunity for clash, so it is likely that
patrice
Oct 2012
#54
Honesty would include an effort to understand where one and one's cohoert stands in the
patrice
Oct 2012
#60
Some of us need rubber sheeting to get through these things, And some of us keep our heads and
msanthrope
Oct 2012
#86