US election 2012: Presidential debate reaction latest

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US election 2012: Presidential debate reaction latest

October 23rd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

We were all surprised by the President saying that the sequester ‘will not
happen’ given that he still hasn’t presented a plan to make sure it ‘will
not happen.’

While the Republican-led House has already taken action, Democrats in the
Senate haven’t even passed a budget, and the President has presented no plan
to prevent the defence cuts.

14.39 (9.39) The Romney campaign has released a TV spot featuring
footage of the debate in which he accused Obama of going on an “Apology
Tour” of the Middle East, but he “skipped” Israel.

14.30 (9.30) Joe Biden, the Vice President, for his part, told the same
TV show that Romney and Ryan have “gone from rattling the sabe tooth,
you know, being doves carrying, you know, peace. I don’t know what they
stand for.”

14.23 (9.23) Some early morning rebuttle from the US. First up is Paul
Ryan, Mitt Romney’s Republican running mate.

Appearing on “CBS
This Morning“, Mr Ryan suggests Obama was being petty last
night.

To compare modern American battleships and Navy with bayonets – I just
don’t understand that comparison.

Look. We have to have a strong Navy to keep peace and prosperity and sea
lanes open.

The president’s, all these defence cuts, if all these defense cuts go
through, our Navy will be smaller than it was before World War I. That’s not
acceptable. And, yes, the … the ocean hasn’t shrunk. You still have to
have enough ships to have a footprint that you need to keep sea lanes open,
to keep our strength abroad where it needs to be.

14.11 (9.11) Roger Simon of Politico, in
his latest column, says Romney was “schooled” by Obama.

At age 65, Mitt Romney probably thought he was done with school. But he got
schooled by Obama on foreign policy at what will be their last meeting
before Election Day.

Romney wasn’t terrible. But he was on the defensive for much of the
evening, a fine sheen of sweat popped out on his forehead long before the
debate ended, and – – worst of all – – Romney was repeatedly forced to say
he agreed with Obama on policy after policy.

This may not have been so bad, but Obama chose a good evening to be good.
Having learned his lesson in Denver, having sharpened his skills at the
second debate in Hempstead, N.Y., Obama unloaded on Romney in Boca Raton
with a prepared theme: “Wrong and reckless.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82733.html#ixzz2A7y55Jcb

13.47 (8.47) This
morning’s ‘The Fix’, from the Washington Post, looks at whether
Barack Obama may have overdone it last night. Chris Cillizza says:

It’s possible that Obama came off too hot/not presidential in some of his
attacks but Democrats will take a little too much heat following Obama’s
cold-as-ice performance in the first debate. Obama came across as the more
confident and commanding presence — by a lot.

13.20 (8.20) If you missed the debate last night, Telegraph
TV has done a handy job of condensing it into 60 seconds. Now you
won’t have to sit through the 90 minutes.

12.43 (7.43) The rest of the world has had some time to digest last
night’s debate. Tom Parfitt, our Moscow correspondent, says that
Russian media has widely reported that Obama reproached Romney for his
assertion Russia is the “greatest geopolitcal foe” of the US.

“Obama Used Russia to Bait Romney“, said the headline in the
Vedomosti newspaper.

The president “persistently accused Romney of being archaic and amateur in
his approach to foreign policy” the daily noted, and teased the republican
for thinking Russia was more of a threat than al-Qaeda. But the paper also
said that besides the barbs Russia was “mostly on the periphery of the
discussion”.

Senior Russian politicians did not make public statements about the debate,
but Mr Romney’s “foe” comment, first made in March, has already been roundly
condemned.

12.35 (7.35) As is the case with this year’s debates, the social media
pick-up has been mind boggling. According to Twitter, via
ABC news, about 6.5 million tweets were sent out regarding the
debate. The peak moment was 9.45pm EDT, with 105,767 tweets per minute, when
Obama used his “horses and bayonets” line.

12.20 (7.20) Of course, if you want to get your opinion from somewhere
other than both sides of the Telegraph coin, then Amy Willis has
a round-up of the various US newspaper and website reaction.

Jonathan
Bernstein of The Washington Post said Romney’s “strange”
strategy of agreeing with Obama on many issues may mean the president will
be declared the winner, he says, but Obama’s own confident yet “hardly
inspired” performance may mean there will be no significant surge
towards him.

12.18 (7.18) But then, if you would rather listen to Tim Stanley, one
of our resident bloggers on US affairs, then Romney won the third debate.
All rather confusing. I’ll let you decide. Tim
however believes Romney won because his victory in the 1st debate was so
decisive.

We also have to judge this debate as part of the narrative arc of this
season. Romney won the first debate by a mile. Because Romney’s win was so
decisive, it sparked an image change: Americans started to think of him as
presidential material. That’s why Obama winning the second debate by an inch
made little impact – people were watching Romney not to see him land punches
but to see how well he could take them. He won the third debate because, by
the end of the night, his and Obama’s positions in the narrative arc had
switched. Romney now looks like the President and Obama looks like the
challenger.

12.15 (7.15) So who won then? Well as is the case in these things, it
depends who you’re listening to really. A CBS snap poll gave it to Obama, as
did our US editor Peter Foster.

Last night it was Mr Romney who failed to show leadership on the much
smaller stage of the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida,
delivering a strangely muted performance that was reminiscent of Mr Obama’s
own disastrous first debate in Denver.

So intent was Mr Romney in appearing presidential and in countering the
Democrat charge that he and his team of Bush-era advisers were reckless
war-mongers, that Mr Romney at times failed to advance any foreign policies
at all.

12.12 (7.12) As our team in Florida and Washington covered last night,
the final debate was a sharply-argued affair. Obama appeared to get
the better of the one liners. In particular this “zinger”,
responding to Romney’s accusations that the US has fewer ships than it had
in 1916.

You mention that we have fewer ships than we had in 1916. Well, governor we
also have fewer horses and bayonets, because that nature of our military has
changed.

“We also have these things called ‘aircraft carriers’ that planes land on,
and ships that go under water – nuclear submarines. So the question is not a
game of battleships, but what are our capabilities…and how we are going to
meet the best of our defence needs.

12.05 (7.05) After last night’s debate, we are that much closer to the
finishing line. As Alex Spillius says this morning in his Race For
the White House email, Barack Obama was “full of running at Lynn
University in Boca Raton, Florida, trying to make amends, again, for his
historically lacklustre first showing three weeks go.

Attacking from the opening bell, Obama accused his opponent of “wrong and
reckless” foreign policy that was “all over the map” in an
encounter that was ostensibly devoted to overseas affairs.

Repeatedly highlighting the former Massachusetts governor’s lack of
relevant experience, the commander-in-chief accused him of being stuck in
the past, not least in describing Russia as the “greatest geo-political
foe” of the US.

12pm BST (7am EST) Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the
US presidential election, where we will be focusing on the fallout from
last night’s third and final presidential debate, as well as today’s
campaigning.

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