Mike said:"What was he [Romney] doing tonight? "He was winning!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz joins the conversation to explain why he’s disappointed in Obama’s debate performance calling him “off his game.”
Lawrence O'Donnel "Time for a new Obama debate strategy?"
Matthews on Obama: "I don’t know what he was doing"
MSNBC's Chris Matthews rants, 'Where was Obama tonight?'
What Romney was doing tonight, unlike Obama, was "winning," Matthews said.
Matthews described Obama’s debate performance as “like, ‘I’ll wait an hour and a half, I think I can get through this thing. I don’t even look at this guy.' Whereas Romney — I loved the split screen, staring at Obama, addressing him, like the prey. He did it just right. I'm coming at an incumbent. I've got to beat him. You gotta beat the champ, and I’m gonna beat him tonight. And I don't care what this guy moderator, whatever he thinks he is, because I'm going to ignore him. What was Romney doing? He was winning.”
Matthews said he didn’t know what Obama “was doing out there — he had his head down. He was enduring the debate rather than fighting it.”
Romney, though, went out there with a “plan” to dominate the evening, and he succeeded, Matthews said.
Big Swede said:If that was a boxing match Obamas corner would have thrown in the towel. :lol:
In a forum built to provide equal time, Obama had spoken five full minutes more than Romney at the debate’s 65-minute mark.
Most of the night’s memorable lines came from Romney, who short-handed Obama’s approach to governing as “trickle-down government”
Romney characterized the decline in middle-class income as “the economy tax.”
“They're just being crushed,” Romney said, drawing out the word. “It's been crushing.”
" You’ve been president four years,” Mr. Romney said at one point, ticking through a list of promises that he said Mr. Obama had not lived up to. Drawing contrasts with the president’s approach, he said, “Middle-income families are being crushed.”
“i can’t believe i’m saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter,” liberal comedian Bill
“Obama made a lot of great points tonight. Unfortunately, most of them were for Romney,” Maher said in another tweet.
Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore had something of a hissy fit on Twitter over the president’s performance.
“lemme get this straight. You can send in drones that kill civilians, but you can’t stop Romney or Lehrer from interrupting you?,”
“Is Bill Clinton coming in to sub for the next quarter? O! Wake up! Attack! That is not john McCain over on that podium!”
Liberal Daily Beast writer Andrew Sullivan also saw the president’s performance as disastrous.
“Look: you know how much I love the guy, and how much of a high info viewer I am, but this was a disaster for Obama,” he tweeted.
Sullivan even suggested Wednesday night’s performance may have lost the election for the president.
“How is Obama’s closing so ####ing sad, confused, lame? He choked. He lost. He may even have lost election tonight,” he tweeted.
ranch hand said:Obama can't come off much different as he still won't gave his record to run on and can only blame others. He misses his TelePrompTer, his speeches wrote by others and the koolAde crowd cheering. Plus he was counting the minutes until he could leave and take Michelle on a trip for their ann'v
Big Swede said:If that was a boxing match Obamas corner would have thrown in the towel. :lol: