Yes I agree with this. I would hope that is what would be pleasing to the audience, and it is what Obama is good at. He remains calm in the storm and can make tough decisions with a cool head. That is one of the things he is great at. We don't need bluff and blunder.

I think Obama needs to spend more time on making the case of how he can keep moving the country forward. Don't let the bullshit pass by, but at the same time focus more on what he can do and has done.

I really wonder if Romney can pull off looking empathetic. I am sure he is practicing real hard. I just want to see one glimmer when a regular person asks him a question and it is obvious he has no clue what the person is talking about.

I'd be surprised if Romney screwed up, but he did make the Big Bird gaffe. I am not sure if that hurt him, but that's the kind of thing that happens when he talks off the cuff.

yeah I'm not so sure Big Bird hurt him. Some think there is better things to talk about rather than Big Bird.. although we all love Big Bird!

http://www.unitedwisconsin.com/watch...al-debate-here

Here's a link for those who are cableless.

Taking my seat ringside. I hope the President will appear more enthusiastic about wanting to be re-elected and not allow Romney to get away with untruths without any sort of rebuff, challenge and clarification.

It would be nice to hear something about poverty, housing, LGBTQ issues, or climate change tonight. It's asking a lot, I know.

Oof
 

Oh he was so close to going cray cray...

Mitt Romney needs to sit his ass down and shut up when Candy Crowley is talking. He is using bullyish tactics and I wish to JEEBUS they would cut his damn mic off!!@

OMG...

If I stroke out over this debate, I just want to say that I have enjoyed everyone...


OMG... I'll crack down on CHINA

Sensata anyone? Mitt's going to profit from the selling of an american company to China...

My head hurts...

"Governor Romeny, you are the last person who is going to get tough on China." - MY PRESIDENT, Barack Obama

Ummm so...

HE WASN'T IN OFFICE... HE DIDN'T LOSE THE JOBS...

oh god...

Regan... really?

Romney is like a sleazy used car dealer. If this sob wins or the Repubs steal the election -AGAIN- for him, we are so f*cked.

This billionaire doesn't even know what a gallon of milk costs let alone CARE about it. He certainly can't relate to the little guy's problems and he sure doesn't care. "47%" to him is really the 98%.

This guy wants elevators for his cars and the shaft for workers.

Anyone who votes for this guy deserves what they get.

The guy who "harvests" businesses and off-shores jobs is suddenly going to help farmers, vets and women?

Will the sheep will vote for the smarmy butcher?

I'm. Not. Illegal.
 

If I get sent back just know I loved you all.

:|<- resident alien

Romney is being very effective. The President is too, but Romney is excellent.

Romney's speechwriters deserve some credit. Get a green card stapled to your diploma? Good stuff.

No human being is ILLEGAL, they are undocumented.


The debate is highly upsetting when they are playing by two different sets of rules. Romney the bully!

Did President Obama say "gangbangers"?

OMG he is lying like a rug re his self-deportation comment.

Romney's bullshit of talking over the Moderator and talking over President Obama is just absolutely the most ridiculously bullyish and PRIVILEGED behavior that I have ever witnessed in a debate format.

I wish a deranged, rabid gorilla would run up on the stage and bite his damn face off.

The President just kicked us in that last scuffle. AND his face is animated. Lively.

But stop reducing everything to growth. EVERYTHING is not about growth. Get fucking human.

well John Q Middleclass pays for everything and we will continue to do so.....all the donations romney makes we ultimately pay for...

I would like to stab my ears when romney speaks....

However obama isn't really doing much better.....

Romney is street-fighting while Bam is debating and getting a bloody nose.

Bam is losing, sorry to say.

Bam can lose the debate, I'm voting for him either way.

Romney just looked like a dithering idiot re Benghazi -- even though he was not wrong.

It also took Candy's assist. But it's still a nice moment. Clearly Obama enjoyed it too, which was good to see.

Obama does have taste for blood.

Holy Crap. President Obama's face when he told Romney to "continue...".

:|

That was cold rage.

Mitt needs a better hairstylist...his head looks lopsided :| I can't seem to focus on what he's saying because of his hair :|

Say whut?
 

Mitt's answer- marry teenagers:|

The reason Canada can afford tax breaks to businesses is because they're not spending all of their money on pointless wars and their military. We'd have money too if that were the case...

Exactly...

Bam keeps losing each battle. Hope he can still win the war. Damn.

i'm fascinated by Romney's comment that we should be trying to "convince 2 people that they ought to get married before they have a baby."

no comment on the fact that women have to scrape tooth and nail to get birth control covered by their health insurance policy while Viagra and Cialis are routinely available to men.

no mention that Obama care (which Mitt loves to hate) is freakishly similar to the Romney care currently available in MA.

no mention about the people who dont have the right to legally marry before having children

and many sincere kudos to Obama for being man enough to say "yours is bigger than mine".

i predict that last comment will be the favorite phrase of the 2012 election season wind down. i think i'll find a reason to say it every day.

I agree that he's winning.

He's done well at countering Romney, which he neglected to do last time, and Romney's getting flustered.

Romney's also making an ass out of himself by interrupting, using words like "illegals", and talking about his binders full of women that need to get home by five pm to cook dinner :|

And my opinion....
 

Are you talking about President Obama? Who is Bam?

If that is who you are talking about....i disagree. I think he did wonderful and gave truthful answers.

I totally think he kicked ass tonight.

he was a missionary so he should be president?

he "saved the Olympics" so he should be president?

he cares about 100% of the citizenry (a proven lie given his opinion of 47% of voters who consider themselves "victims") so he should be president?

he believes in G*d so he should be president?

he wants people to have access to citizenship through military service despite the fact that he didnt serve so he should be president?

:seeingstars:

really?

i might also have to start quoting Romney by saying that i have "binders full of women". along with "yours is bigger than mine", i think i've got the makings of a real conversation starter.

Obama = presidential boot shoved clear up a privileged ass

Romney = epic fail