First, we saw this wonderful cartoon from Michael Ramirez:
[And please note, if you will, the type of chair it is.]
Then we saw this cover from The New Yorker:
Coincidence?
I think not.
Leftists are displeased.
And polls aren’t going well for The One: 49% to 45%.
More importantly: a week after the first debate. What’s that about?
BZ
The Leftists came completely uncorked following Wednesday’s debate.
Mr Obama’s poor showing simply could not be the result of his poor showing.
Instead, it had to be other influences: sunspots, tidal pull, the Coriolis Effect, the nasty altitude in Denver and, of course, Jim Lehrer.
Mr Lehrer responded to the mass excoriation:
I thought the format accomplished its purpose, which was to facilitate direct, extended exchanges between the candidates about issues of substance. Part of my moderator mission was to stay out of the way of the flow and I had no problems with doing so. My only real personal frustration was discovering that ninety minutes was not enough time in that more open format to cover every issue that deserved attention.
I have to agree. One important duty of a moderator is to “get out of the way” of the candidates.
That said, the Obama Handlers have decided it’s time to get back in Chicago-Style Politics As Usual. No shock there.
BZ
The candidates debated at 6pm Pacific, from the University of Denver on Wednesday.
In my opinion, Mr Romney made any number of statements regarding facts that Mr Obama simply did not refute. Obama obfuscated and changed topic.
Romney: “We know that the path we are taking is not working.”
Bingo.
Mr Romney proved that he has so much more experience than Mr Obama as to be ludicrous. As governor; as a businessman; as a meeter-of-budgets; as a job creator; as a private business owner; as a manager; as a LEADER.
In this first debate, I would give a serious nudge to Mitt Romney as a winner; Obama stood tall but he fell back on repeated statement with few facts. Both men withheld themselves. Obama emphasized he was a fighter for the Middle Class. But that was a massively hollow argument when his actions prove that he couldn’t quite care less about the Middle Class. The only thing about “class” Mr Obama understands is that of CLASS WARFARE.
A brief bit of Roaming Through History with presidential debates:
Clinton’s “debate moment” against GHW Bush:
Al Gore, in 2000, tries to physically intimidate George Bush during the debate by violating his personal space:
Here, Obama kicks John McCain to the curb (truly, not too terribly difficult, considering):
I repeat: Romney ahead. He kept composure and fought with facts. He came out more aggressively than I suspected he would — and good for him.
Obama, when confronted with actual FACTS — as I insisted Romney do — Mr Obama had little if any cogent retort. He seemed to be intensely scrutinizing his notes many times, head down.
I repeat: kill Obama with nothing more than FACTS.
Jugular time, Mr Romney.
BZ
From TheHill.com:
“This is deadly earnest, man. This is deadly earnest,” the vice president said. “How they can justify, how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years — how in Lord’s name can they justify raising their taxes with these tax cuts?”
Correct. Read that again. Closely.
Yes. Biden is that stupid.
BZ
P.S.
Who, after all, has control over Taxmageddon come January 1st?
Mr Obama was shocked, absolutely stunned, when Univision didn’t pitch him a series of interview “softballs” two weeks ago.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Once again, however, Obama LIED: “Fast & Furious” did not start under President Bush. Even ABC News acknowledges this fact.
Then Univision did something worse: it found many more weapons that were linked to Fast & Furious:
The Spanish language television news network Univision unleashed a bombshell investigative report on Operation Fast and Furious Sunday evening, finding that in January 2010 drug cartel hit men slaughtered students with weapons the United States government allowed to flow to them across the Mexican border.
“On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez,” according to a version of the Univision report in English, on the ABC News website.
“Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.”
Citing a Mexican Army document it obtained and published, Univision reported that “[t]hree of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).”
That operation was Fast and Furious.
Clearly, Eric Holder has Obama’s “complete confidence” regarding Fast & Furious:
The DOJ already said it won’t prosecute Holder for contempt;
Eric Holder stonewalled handing over Fast & Furious documents;
Obama himself asserted “executive privilege” with regard to the F&F documents;
Holder himself said Fast & Furious doesn’t really mean “Fast & Furious.”
Paul Ryan said on Monday that Eric Holder has to resign and do so immediately. In fact, Romney said in December of 2011:
“Either Mr. Holder himself should resign, or the president should ask for his resignation or remove him. It’s unacceptable for him to continue in that position now given the fact that he has misled Congress and entirely botched the investigation of the Fast and Furious program.”
Obama is corrupt. He is a liar. He is at once fighting to retain his White House chair and simultaneously disengaged and disinterested in actually LEADING this country.
Trotted out nightly on the DEM/MSM? Of course not.
BZ