Obama won the debate.
Romney screwed up on Libya, which should've been a power area for him. He came off looking petty, arguing about Obama's choice of words. On top of that, moderator help or not, Romney got told and Obama got applause. -- Romney kinda looked stunned and never recovered from this point.
He wasn't arguing about Obama's choice of words. He was asking why they weren't called terrorist attacks from the get go. As far as Romney getting told, according to most that I've read. Despite the unfair tag team job, is that Crowley and Obama were wrong. The applause wasn't for Obama, it was for what Crowley said. If she would have said nothing there would have been no applause. And for the record, there was supposed to be
no applause during the debate. Which of course Obama's manly looking wife was seen violating.
I think Romney was overly aggressive with asking the president about his own finances and Obama's laugh line worked -- even Romney laughed a little.
So if Obama attacks Romney over having foreign investments. And Obama in fact has those same type of investments, Romney shouldn't aggressively call him out on it ? Of course he should. The real underlying fact is that Obama never answered the question.
The one part where Obama looked bad to me was when they were talking about an assault weapons ban and Obama turned that into something about teachers that was long and rambling. It just seemed way off topic, like he was meandering.
You bet your ass it looked bad. Messing with the 2nd amendment wasn't a smart thing to do any way you slice it.
But the best line of the night was when Obama looked Romney in the eye with a cold stare and talked about how he was the one who had to greet those coffins when he came home. I think it showed how serious he is and it diminished Romney, in my opinion, as someone trying to score on the tragedy.
Pure bad acting job. Obama didn't give a shit about those who were killed. He cares about his agenda, that's all.
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