I Feel Better After Debate Two

Helaine knows me well.

“So I guess you’re looking forward to watching Jon Stewart tonight.”

She was talking about my mindset after last night’s presidential debate at Hofstra University. I was in a very different place two weeks ago after the first debate. You remember that debate, the one Bill Maher characterized by saying, “It looked like he took my million and spent it all on weed.”

Helaine knows me well.

“So I guess you’re looking forward to watching Jon Stewart tonight.”

She was talking about my mindset after last night’s presidential debate at Hofstra University. I was in a very different place two weeks ago after the first debate.

You remember that debate, the one Bill Maher characterized by saying, “It looked like he took my million and spent it all on weed.”

Everyone has missteps. Part of a debate is defending yourself when confronted with your own actions. I thought the president handled himself well in that regard.

Most of Governor Romney’s problems were unforced errors. The wording of his question on Benghazi allowed the president to sidestep Mr. Romney’s intended point.

His own answers on women’s issues were clumsy and brought the iconic and embarrassing takeaway phrase of the night, “binders full of women.”

Finally, as the debate was ending, Governor Romney indirectly referred to his 47% comments, allowing President Obama to strongly respond (and at a time when there would be no follow-up).

Did this debate undo President Obama’s unforced errors from their first meeting? No. It stopped the bleeding and that’s probably enough right now.

6 thoughts on “I Feel Better After Debate Two”

  1. It’s getting exciting again…almost as breath taking as Felix Bamgartner’s plunge…I still get goose bumps thinking about it…

  2. I found his performance satisfying. After the first debate, I had trouble identifying my precise sentiment until I realized it was simply anger. I felt that my support was worth more effort.

  3. I was supporting Obama, but I feel it is time for a change. I like Obama, but Romney will be our next President come November 6.

  4. I agree with you Lee.
    All Obama showed last evening was something most of us were not surprised to see, his arrogant attitude. This man some call President, has to be the cockiest man I have ever seen. Gone was the charisma he has shown to the cameras. He showed how little respect he has for women, that was evident in the way he treated Candy. He was making it known to her, as well as the rest of the country, this was going to be “his show”… She went along with it, as she said this morning,to more or less apease him, to get him moving along. You have a man here who does not like having to answer questions, to anyone. It’s been his way for 4 years and we continue to dive deeper and deeper in debt. Our country was once well respected, we cannot say that any longer. He dwells on the fact that he has done so much to get the unemployed back to work,,well I guess that is true, if you live in Detroit, making cars! He has taken monies that everyone has worked very hard for, our money, that should be there for us,yet he uses it for his “Obama Care” and there have been other times he has “borrowed” as he puts it and those plans have failed as well.He is more worried and apologizes to other countries, more than he is concerned about our’s.
    He stood there and tried his hardest to convince us that everything Mitt said was a lie last evening. I think Obama forgets , he has been in front of the cameras so many times,especially talk shows, that playbacks will always come back to bite you. Obama was elected as a “novelty” four years ago. He was the man that was going to “change” our country,,, He changed it alright and not for the better.Look at how many of his hand-picked people jumped ship not long after he was in office,they new early on what was coming. He has to go, he failed this country….

    1. After posting the reply that follows a friend wrote and said,

      I would be remiss as a friend if I didn’t tell you that your response to Sara was exceedingly condescending, I don’t believe that was your intention but it made me cringe and I don’t think that has ever happened before.

      That was not my intention, but it was the outcome. What to do?

      I think removing my response is the wrong answer. I don’t want this blog to be a sanitized version of me.

      Instead allow me to offer my apology to Sara (her given email address did not allow me to reply to send this directly).

      By leaving my response I will be reminded not to be snippy or condescending or a jerk. These are traits I don’t approve of in others and shouldn’t practice myself.

      I’m sure my friend wondered whether sending me his note was the right thing to do? Absolutely. Friends aren’t just for congratulating you when you’ve done the right thing.

      Geoff

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      Hi Sara –

      I wanted to remind you what President Obama inherited from the Republicans who preceded him. The best way is this graph with job losses. Notice how we were losing 700,000 to 800,000 jobs per month as the Bush administration ended. We lost jobs in each of President Bush’s final 13 months.

      Job loss/gain graph

      Remember?

      We are now ending our 31st consecutive month of job gains. Yes, it’s slower than anyone would like, but we’re growing. Under the last Republican administration we were hemorrhaging jobs!

      Allow me to repeat the story about the grandmother who brings her grandson to the beach. While she lets him alone he goes in too deep, gets pulled under and is about to drown.

      A lifeguard, seeing what’s happened swims out and plucks the boy from the water just in the nick of time!

      As the boy lies on the beach with the lifeguard finishing his resuscitation the grandmother shows up. She looks down and says, “He was wearing a hat.”

      In this story Republicans are the grandmother.

  5. I agree with you Geoff. I see no reason to fire our President. More time is needed to put forth the fixes that were put into place after the horrible Bush years that got us into near total economic collapse. President Obama by far, has done more for saving our country from going into a full blown depression then any other President in history. Those that think otherwise, need to do much more Goggling before election day. Facts do not lie.

    He has my support and my vote.

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