{"id":4043,"date":"2012-10-03T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2012-10-03T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:00:17","slug":"obama-the-glum-romney-the-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2012\/10\/03\/obama-the-glum-romney-the-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama the Glum, Romney the Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Chris Cillizza has his initial take on tonight.\u00a0 Do you agree?\u00a0 He wrote about Obama:<\/p>\n

The grimness of Barack Obama: There\u2019s a fine line between sober\/serious and grim\/disinterested when it comes to the optics of these debates, and the incumbent was on the wrong side of it Wednesday night. Whether it was his habit of looking down for the majority of Romney\u2019s answers or the pique he displayed when debate moderator Jim Lehrer interrupted him, Obama looked like he\u2019d prefer to be somewhere else.\u00a0 In many ways what Obama seemed to be doing was taking on the persona he used to much success in 2008 when he was careful to show he was ready for the job. But, now that he has been in the job for four years, Obama\u2019s demeanor came across far less well.\u00a0 Remember that voters see their vote for president as electing a leader not just a set of policy positions. And, Obama the glum is not the leader people want to vote for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he wrote this about Gov. Romney:<\/p>\n

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Romney\u2019s prepared competence\u2026and more: If the main goal for Romney in this debate was to show he could stand on stage with the president and handle a wide-ranging discussion on economic policy, he did so with flying colors. Romney\u2019s strength as a debater \u2014 as demonstrated during the GOP primaries \u2014 is his ability to recall massive amounts of information with little seeming effort and he did that time and again on Wednesday night. Romney didn\u2019t just deliver a sort of hyper-competence, however. He was at times funny \u2014 his quip at the beginning of the debate about the president spending his wedding anniversary at a debate was a good one \u2014 and delivered plenty of quotable moments (\u201cyou pick the losers\u201d, \u201cyou\u2019re entitled to your own airplane and your own house\u201d) that will be replayed again and again in the after-action analysis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all here<\/a>.\u00a0 And way to go, Governor Romney!!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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