2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Have You All Lost Your GD Minds? [View all]Harriety
(298 posts)When the debate was over I thought to myself that Obama did OK, but Romney showed himself to be a snide, slick, goofus. His body language was jerky and erratic, and his answers made no sense. President Obama on the other hand held his own. He explained and answered the questions as a person would in a debate. Immediately afterwards the spinners made their pro-Romney and anti-Obama comments. (I watched it on PBS btw.) After a minute or two my husband said "Well he sure blew that one!" "Whaaa.... whaaa....?" I said.
He said "It's obvious Romney was much stronger with his answers." I then asked him. "Did you just hear what the news commentators said?" "Well, yes I did." he said. I just know he had to have been influenced by all that spinnin.'
The next morning I was VERY surprised to hear that had Romney totally creamed our President in the debate. I threw our morning paper on the floor as hard as I could and tried to forget about it. For over a week now all I've heard is how Romney was a prince among princes during his debate performance. Last night Diane Sawyer even asked President Obama "Why do you think you did so poorly in the debate?" How could he answer a question that was not true?