What was it you were saying about that 1st presidential debate..?

By: Black Liberal BoomerNov. 2nd, 2012more from Black Liberal Boomer

Seems like it wasn’t all that long ago when so many of us were weeping and moaning, engaging in much gnashing of teeth and self-mutilation, all but certain that our guy had just handed over the election to Mitt Romney. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews experienced a meltdown so intense I’m surprised the set surrounding him didn’t go up in flames. Matthews’ colleague Ed Schultz wasn’t much better.

We were doomed.

Admittedly I felt a little sick myself, as did my wife and some of my friends. But we got over it. Despite what the polls said, I’m betting so did most of the country. Quite to the contrary, it seems the news media couldn’t get enough of reminding all of us each and every minute of each and every day how Obama had ‘stumbled’, or how his performance was ‘less than stellar’. How critical it would be for him to recover from such a ‘disastrous’ performance. Even after Vice President Biden made mincemeat of Paul Ryan, there was some relief, but most still could not resist the temptation to say that although Joe had done what he needed to do in slowing down the Mittmentum, the President still had to rise from the dead True Blood-style and dust off his cape.

Meanwhile the polls, which had been showing double digit leads for Obama in a number of swing states, suddenly tanked as if the toilet had just been flushed. After six straight months of Mitt in Crisis, we were now introduced to Super Mitt, able to leap over crippling campaign deficiencies – not to mention his deficiencies as a human being – in the course of one single widely watched 90-minute debate. Just like that. Suddenly everyone around the country apparently forgot all of Mitt’s lies, all of his flips, his dismissal of the 47 %, etc., because for 90 minutes straight he lied even stronger and more boastfully in a one-on-one match with POTUS. If we are to believe the polls, an overwhelming number of us were so dazzled by Mitt’s blizzard of lies and their effect on an unprepared president that we just completely gave up and decided Mitt now deserved to be the Leader of Our Times.

But now here we are again, and even Nate Silver’s numbers are once again showing the president’s likelihood of victory pulling away at a significant enough rate that he doubts Romney can catch up. Interesting.

So is it the storm? Is it that Romney can’t quite run fast enough to outrun his own lies? Or is it that we didn’t all jump ship after that first debate in quite the numbers that the polls said we did?

I think the storm is just confirming what many of us have known all along, namely that Obama is the true President here, which is why acting like a President comes naturally to him. Because he’s not acting. And he’s not lying. As for the polls, I would never say that polls are always wrong because, like many, I’m quicker to want to believe polls when they’re saying what I want them to say. But I do believe that in certain instances we have to be careful, and a little more analytical, when responding to what these polls say. Because sometimes they get it wrong, whereas common sense just may cut a little closer to what’s really going on.

What was it you were saying about that 1st presidential debate..? was written by Black Liberal Boomer for PoliticusUSA.

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6 Responses to What was it you were saying about that 1st presidential debate..?

D. W. Skinner

Nov. 2nd, 2012 at 8:07 am

I like the polls making the Teabaggers think they’ve got this one… can you imagine their despair, their depression and their despondency when the Democrats sweep them clean away? I will do a Riverdance drinking champagne!
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- Reynardine
  
  Nov. 2nd, 2012 at 8:57 am
  
  I will, too…if it happens like that. Don’t jinx it.
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bluerose

Nov. 2nd, 2012 at 9:19 am

cross every fingers that the President gets re-elected, had enough of the Mitt lies.
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Charlotte

Nov. 2nd, 2012 at 10:18 am

As the wife of a 2 term (and going on three-Ugh!) {LOL} local politician I have learned MORE than I EVER wanted to know about politics. Even in a small SW Louisiana city, Politics, as we are witnessing, is a very UGLY game. Notice I used the word GAME. What I have noticed time and time again is that polls can be VERY unreliable. Historically, People tend to lie when polled. Add in the fact that most polls are aimed at landline phones. As pointed out in various articles, Most people don’t have house phones anymore. Many use their cell phones exclusively, which aren’t accurate in “Poll-Land”. President Obama is well aware of this and I hope that he is right. Add in the fact that the media Wants to project a close Horse race for ratings, and ratings only. Romney also has these make-believe “experts” who are playing around with numbers to show a totally different outcome. As we all know, Romney just doesn’t know how to do the Math. I pray that I am right and next week, we shall see. The most IMPORTANT thing is that we all show up to Vote!
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stormskies

Nov. 2nd, 2012 at 10:39 am

And let’s remember too that even after Biden destroyed boy scout Ryan, and Obama snuffed the sociopath Romney in the last two debates, we were all informed by the corporate media that the corporate automaton called buffoon Romney ‘won the debate season’.

The vast amount of our corporate media is as complicit in the lies and deceptions to our country as is the pathological liar Romney himself. They have actively tried to make us believe that which is not true. And, in so doing, they intent and desire in doing this was to try to make people vote for the automaton because of the corporate media created perception of being a ‘winner’.

This is why, to me, the vast amount of our corporate media is one of the greatest dangers to our country.

Exactly why is it that corporate creeps like Brain William is paid $15 million per year ? Why ?

Consider that what this one corporate cum slut is paid would equal about 400 hundred teachers for our children in one year.

These types of ‘journalists’ are paid that amount of money in order to enact the corporate agenda itself. That’s why they are paid this amount of money wherein all the corporate props called pundits have been made millionaires by the corporations that have bought their souls.

So they look out at us through the TV screen with their million dollars suites, ties, and dresses and consciously attempt to deceive us. They are just as much of a CON JOB as it their standard bearer the sociopath called Romney.
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GemGirl

Nov. 2nd, 2012 at 6:00 pm

stormskies — your astute assessment makes me so proud to know we have some brilliant thinkers among America’s general public!
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