You Could See It Coming
By Mitch Berg
I’m the first to admit that confirmation bias hits everyone. Myself included.
But for the life of me, I’m not sure how anyone, ever, could say Barack Obama even came close in the debate last night…
…except among a base that needed a spiff to keep them from driving into bridge abutments aroiund the country, and maybe to give the low-information voters that are the Democrats’ only real growth market a fresh charge on their chanting points. By those standards – “victory” means your supporters get a morale boost, and idiots get a fresh dose of “Planned Parenthood” – then yes, the president’s performance was adequate.
Of course, like Ringo Starr, he only did it with a little help from his friends:
Romney had the President on the ropes, stammering and babbling over his Adminstration’s performance in re Benghazi – and Crowley in effect came off the bench to tackle Mitt.
As predicted.
The best thing about the debate after sleeping on it? The Libya issue is going to be front and center in the headlines for the next five days, until the foreign policy debate. And this time The One won’t have Candy Crowley to save him.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:09 am
Grammar/spelling police alert: spliff.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:12 am
And now for some content, I don’t know how Crowley can look herself or anyone else in the eye and say she was neutral. Does she believe she was neutral, is she lying to herself? Or does she see her job as “doing right”? Or is it like it is for most lefties, that Republicans are bad and she is just helping protect the country from them?
Now you can correct my spelling and grammar.
October 17th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Grammar/spelling police alert: spliff.
No, I think spiff is correct, assuming Mitch meant it in the sense of the word as an inducement or reward. It’s an old sales term for hawking a specific product.
I don’t doubt that a few Obama supporters wanted a spliff after the first debate, but that’s a different matter.
October 17th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Some are wondering why Mitt didn’t jump harder on “O” about the Libya issue and why the Admin came out and said over and over that it was in response to some obscure film. My thinking is that Mitt was coached and prepared to wait till the next debate (Foriegn Policy) to really lay the gloves on “O” over this. Questions and demands for answers aren’t going away despite what ‘O” wants us to believe or the spin they’re trying to put on it. Hillary has fallen on her sword but I believe the consensus is that culpability goes all the way to the very top. Either “O” and the pompous Biden are out right liars or they’re out right incompetent (undoubtedly both). Romney is going to hit him hard on this at the next debate, and it will have a far better chance of remaining ingrained in peoples minds going into the election booth 1 week later. YMMV
October 17th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
I’m still waiting for the false flag operation that will allow the Narcissist in Chief to declare martial law and postpone the election for a few months.
October 17th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Boss:
I won’t say I definitely think that’s possible.
I also won’t say I’m shopping for ammo any slower…
October 17th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
And D is correct; I meant “Spiff”, as in “gratuity”.
October 17th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Do we know who the moderator for the 3rd debate will be? Who picks the moderators anyway? And why don’t the conservatives/Republicans “in power” ever complain about the obvious blatant bias that these debate moderators always seem to have?
October 17th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
About Hilary falling on her sword.
Politically Bill and Hilary are a team – always – they don’t work independent of each other.
Among her many attributes Hilary does not number altruism and she certainly wouldn’t have fallen on her sword because a lightweight bagman like Obama asked her.
So I think its a very safe bet that Obama had to bargain away a portion of his presidency to get that favor and Bill would not have asked for anything trivial. My guess would be SCOTUS, Treasury or the Federal Reserve chairmanship.
October 17th, 2012 at 4:06 pm
A thousand pardons sahib.
I actually looked up the word spiff to see if it had any meaning, and found the definition to be “an immediate bonus for a sale”, so I figured weed was far more likely to be involved given today’s left. :o)
Bill C: it drives me crazy that the Repub’s still put up with this bs debate format. How about they suggest just two debates, and each side chooses one mod?
October 17th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Boss, I’m thinking rather that the left and the media (birm) will, in the event of a Romney win, declare the election to be stolen, and say that they have no reason to believe that Obama is not still Potus, and will wait until a full investigation takes place before leaving office.
October 17th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Lock and load, brothers! Lock and load!
Anyone know where I can pick up a Czechoslovakian shoulder cannon? 🙂
October 17th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Boss, its going to be the crypt keeper, I mean Bob Schieffer. I don’t know how he’ll do with actually being in front of bright lights, and I’m pretty sure he moderated the FDR Hoover debate.