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Originally Posted by wellendowed1911
The good news for Romney is that he clearly won the debate on style
The bad news for Romney is there are 2 remaining and the other 2 debates will not be on the economy- which basically was Obama's only weakness and Romney's strongest point- by the time the other 2 debates will take place- people will all but forget about this debate.
This reminds me a lot of Bush vs Kerry- on their 1st debate where Bush looked flat.
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Originally Posted by wellendowed1911
I agree- again I admit Romney won on style- however, the good news for Obama is that I am pretty sure his advisors will tell him where he went wrong and how he lacked passion- I expect Obama to be ready for the 2nd and 3rd.
The good news for Obama is that this is the 1st debate and the 1st debate was on the economy- which is the biggest issue in politics- they have 2 major debates remaining that will not focus on the economy- As I stated the time the 2nd debates is over people will forget about the 1st debate and ditto for the 3rd debate.
The good news for Romney is he did a very good job and had passion.
The bad news for Romney is that no more debates on the economy and they have foreign policy(no experience and has given shaky response such as Russia being our biggest threat) and domestic issues- abortion, gay marriage-etc. which really basically fall on party lines. Romney would have felt a lot better had the 3rd debate been on the economy. Again if you re-visit Kerry- Bush- Kerry looked stellar on his 1st debate and then fizzled on the 2nd and 3rd.
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WASHINGTON — President Hosni Mubarak did not even wait for President Obama’s words to be translated before he shot back.
“You don’t understand this part of the world,” the Egyptian leader broke in. “You’re young.”
Mr. Obama, during a tense telephone call the evening of Feb. 1, 2011, had just told Mr. Mubarak that his speech, broadcast to hundreds of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo, had not gone far enough. Mr. Mubarak had to step down, the president said.
Minutes later, a grim Mr. Obama appeared before hastily summoned cameras in the Grand Foyer of the White House. The end of Mr. Mubarak’s 30-year rule, Mr. Obama said, “must begin now.” With those words, Mr. Obama upended three decades of American relations with its most stalwart ally in the Arab world, putting the weight of the United States squarely on the side of the Arab street.
It was a risky move by the American president, flying in the face of advice from elders on his staff at the State Department and at the Pentagon, who had spent decades nursing the autocratic — but staunchly pro-American — Egyptian government.
Nineteen months later, Mr. Obama was at the State Department consoling some of the very officials he had overruled. Anti-American protests broke out in Egypt and Libya. In Libya, they led to the deaths of four Americans, including the United States ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens. A new Egyptian government run by the Muslim Brotherhood was dragging its feet about condemning attacks on the American Embassy in Cairo.
Television sets in the United States were filled with images of Arabs, angry over an American-made video that ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad, burning American flags and even effigies of Mr. Obama.
Speaking privately to grieving State Department workers, the president tried to make sense of the unfolding events. . . .
Even as the uprisings spread to Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria, the president’s sympathy for the protesters infuriated America’s allies in the conservative and oil-rich Gulf states. In mid-March, the Saudis moved decisively to crush the democracy protests in Bahrain, sending a convoy of tanks and heavy artillery across the 16-mile King Fahd Causeway between the two countries. . . .
Still,
there remains concern in the administration that at any moment, events could spiral out of control, leaving the president and his advisers questioning their belief that their early support for the Arab Spring would deflect longstanding public anger toward the United States.
For instance, Mr. Feltman, the former assistant secretary of state, said,
“the event I find politically most disturbing is the attack on Embassy Tunis.” Angry protesters breached the grounds of the American diplomatic compound there last week — in a country previously known for its moderation and secularism — despite Mr. Obama’s early support for the democracy movement there.
“That really shakes me out of complacency about what I thought I knew.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/us...tic-skill.html
As crazy as this sounds.......I think Joe Biden could have done a better job last nilght than President Obama......scary! 
