Rmoney WANTED Obama To Attack Him, But Obama Outsmarted Him

[quaker bill]

43. Rmoney wanted an argument

Obama for the better part refused to give him one. That part was fine.

Obama's optics were not as good as they could have been. Looking at the opponent would have given the visual impression that he was engaged and listening. I am sure he was engaged and listening, but looking away, or looking down while taking notes does not give the same visual impression.

Obama's answers and responses were not as crisp as they needed to be. It sounded like he was struggling. He had the facts and good answers, but his delivery seemed halting and less than forceful. Part of this I am sure is due to Rmoney going off script to deny pretty much everything he has run on for more than a year. This required calibration of the language to a new and probably unexpected set of facts. This takes a moment and probably accounts for why his delivery seemed a bit tenative.

Obama was ready to argue with supply side fairy dust. Rmoney presented him with magical tax reform that while saving no one a nickle somehow stimulates the economy producing jobs. To the extent it does any of this, it does it by military Kenyesianism, basically blowing up the debt to purchase $2 trillion dollars of defense goods and laying off Big Bird to "pay" for it (which might work over a few thousand years).