Fact Check: Top 5 Liberal Excuses for Obama Losing the First Presidential Debate to Romney
Gov. Mitt Romney defeated President Barack Obama soundly in the first presidential debate in Denver, and even Obama’s supporters knew it. The media quickly went to work spinning excuses for their candidate, claiming that "the deck was stacked against Obama" from the start, and that Romney had not fought a fair fight.
Here are the five biggest--and worst--excuses for Obama's defeat:5. We won’t know for 2-3 days whether Mitt Romney actually won. The idea here seems to be that the polls will tell us who won, although even CNN’s instant polling of those who had watched the debate had it at 67%-25% in Romney’s favor. This excuse has a purpose: to buy time for so-called “fact-checkers” to attack Romney’s arguments and change the narrative from “Romney won” to “Romney lied.” Speaking of which...
4. Romney lied with a straight face for ninety minutes. This excuse betrays the fact that so many on the left never leave their own media bubble. They believe what they tell each other about Romney and his policies, rather than listening or learning the truth. A good example was Rachel Maddow’s battle with Rudy Giuliani afterwards, in which she insisted Romney lied about a $5 trillion tax cut that he has never, in fact, proposed. Sad.
3. The free-flowing format was bad and let Romney dominate. On the contrary, the format allowed Obama to deploy his favorite defense, the filibuster. It just so happened that Romney didn’t let him get away with it, insisting on the right to reply to repeated distortions of his position. It is Obama’s fault, not the format’s, that he didn’t know when to stop talking, letting himself lose focus while the words kept coming out.
2. The moderator, Jim Lehrer, let Romney win. This is the Obama campaign’s official excuse, judging by the post-debate comments of Stephanie “Felon” Cutter, who argued that Lehrer allowed Romney to dominate. Actually, Lehrer was his usual liberal self, and was tougher on Romney than on Obama, interjecting more often with follow-up questions and letting the president use a full four minutes more than his challenger.
1. Obama didn’t show up tonight. This was the lament of Chris Matthews, who suggested--colorfully--that Obama had not tried hard enough to win the debate. The idea, once again--it is always the same when Obama suffers a setback--is that the president needs to fight harder, to be more aggressive. In fact, Obama was often too hostile. What needs to change are the ideas, not the tactics. And it’s too late for that.
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Four Takeaways From Romney's Denver Debate Demolition
Denver
Following presidential debates, there’s a ritual known as “the spin room” where surrogates for the campaigns respond to reporters' questions. At tonight’s debate in Denver, they’re calling it “spin alley” as the space takes up a narrow portion of one side of the media room. It’s best to take everything from campaign surrogates with a grain of salt immediately following such an event, but here are some quick takeaways from the debate and a stroll through spin alley.
1.
The Romney campaign is rejecting the idea the campaign is going to be a
referendum on Obama’s first term and is finally presenting a bold and
detailed competing vision.
“I was surprised that the president spoke in empty platitudes and had no vision about where he wanted to take the country, especially since he's been telling us this is a choice,” said Romney campaign senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom. “And the choice is do you want four more years like the last four years under president Obama, or do want a real recovery with more jobs and rising incomes for all Americans. And Governor Romney described in detail how he would make that come about.”
Previously, talking about a “choice” was the frame favored by the Obama campaign. The Romney campaign embraced it with tonight’s debate strategy, and it paid off in a big way. This should also hearten those who have criticized the risk averse Romney campaign for its unwillingness to be aggressive. Whether or not this is a permanent change in tone remains to be seen, but if it is a step in a new direction, it’s a heck of a start.
2. Romney is an underrated communicator.
Following presidential debates, there’s a ritual known as “the spin room” where surrogates for the campaigns respond to reporters' questions. At tonight’s debate in Denver, they’re calling it “spin alley” as the space takes up a narrow portion of one side of the media room. It’s best to take everything from campaign surrogates with a grain of salt immediately following such an event, but here are some quick takeaways from the debate and a stroll through spin alley.
“I was surprised that the president spoke in empty platitudes and had no vision about where he wanted to take the country, especially since he's been telling us this is a choice,” said Romney campaign senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom. “And the choice is do you want four more years like the last four years under president Obama, or do want a real recovery with more jobs and rising incomes for all Americans. And Governor Romney described in detail how he would make that come about.”
Previously, talking about a “choice” was the frame favored by the Obama campaign. The Romney campaign embraced it with tonight’s debate strategy, and it paid off in a big way. This should also hearten those who have criticized the risk averse Romney campaign for its unwillingness to be aggressive. Whether or not this is a permanent change in tone remains to be seen, but if it is a step in a new direction, it’s a heck of a start.
2. Romney is an underrated communicator.
After the debate, top Obama surrogates David Axlerod and David Plouffe were still peddling the idea to reporters that Romney was snowing people. But when asked about the alleged lack of details, Fehrnstrom was able to rattle off a litany of specific details cited by Mitt in the debate—everything from how he would block grant Medicaid to cut PBS. When Fehrnstrom gleefully said, “In fact, he told Jim Lehrer that he's going to cut PBS. The governor spoke in specific details, and the president gave us empty details”—reporters around him nodded intently.
3. Conversely, Obama is an overrated communicator who’s not very good with facts.
Obama’s policy knowledge did not appear nearly as deep as Romney’s. Obama kept going back to the well, citing the $5 trillion tax cut Romney allegedly wants even after Romney vigorously and convincingly repeated it.
Then he completely lost the plot on health care, claiming that Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan would increase costs for seniors by $6,000 even though that figure is based on a dodgy study of an outdated version of the Ryan plan. In fact, Ryan’s plan was specifically altered to address this exact criticism. (John McCormack explains why the figure is bunk here.) Then Obama cited how the government was modeling health care programs after successful private sector organizations such as the Cleveland Clinic that save money by integrating health care services. However, even though the Cleveland Clinic was one of the models for the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) program being set up through Obamacare, the Cleveland Clinic has explicitly rejected the program—as have the other organizations often cited as ACO models, including the Mayo Clinic. “Officials at those tightly organized institutions have so many concerns with the proposed rule to create ACOs that they doubt that they will participate,” reported CQ last year. READ MORE
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Weekly Jobless Claims Edge Higher; Progress Still Slight
Thursday, 4 Oct 2012 |
The
number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose
less than expected last week, according government data on Thursday that
suggested a mild improvement in the labor market.
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The prior week's figure was revised up to show 4,000 more applications than previously reported.
The
four-week moving average for new claims, a better measure of labor
market trends, was unchanged at 375,000. A Labor Department official
said there were no special factors influencing the report and no states
had been estimated.
"The
trend is still looking fairly stable. The labor market is improving but
it is not really gathering direction for better or worse, it is still
just plodding along," said Sean Incremona an economist at 4CAST in New
York.
Economists
polled by Reuters had forecast claims rising to 370,0000 last week. The
four-week moving average for new claims, a better measure of labor
market trends, was unchanged at 375,000. It was the first time since
December last year that the four-week average was unchanged.
A Labor Department official said there were no special factors influencing the report and no states had been estimated.
Despite
fears of tighter fiscal policy next January, there is little sign that
companies are responding by laying off workers on a wide scale.
Last
week's claims data fell outside the survey period for the September
employment report, but applications dropped 18,000 from the first week
of the month, signaling some improvement in the pace of job creation
last month. READ MORE
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El primer debate presidencial: Un claro contraste de filosofías
Despues de meses de espera, esta noche frente a una audiencia nacional de millones de televidentes, el presidente Barack Obama y el gobernador Mitt Romney compartieron escenario en el primer debate presidencial y quedó muy claro desde el principio que ambos candidatos a la presidencia tienen filosofías muy distintas sobre cómo encaminar a Estados Unidos por la senda correcta.
Estas diferencias se pudieron notar en varias ocasiones durante el debate. En particular, cómo mejorarían el estado de esta economía – tema central de estas elecciones – que sufre un desempleo que supera el 10% entre los hispanos. Como si eso fuera poco, nuestra deuda nacional supera ya los 16 billones de dolares que ponen en peligro la prosperidad económica de todos, incluyendo a tantos vinieron buscando mejorar económicamente al emigrar a este país.
Los medios han declarado ganador al exgobernador Romney. El candidato republicano incluso admitió que los otros dos debates serían una continuación de este primer debate. Sin duda, porque se quedaron sin tocar muchos temas. Y Obama luchará con uñas y dientes para ganar los dos últimos debates.
Queda claro que el presidente Obama quiere cuatro años más para poder continuar implementando sus políticas de expansión gubernamental y mayor gasto público. Mientras tanto, Romney expresó mucho más confianza en el sector privado y en el individualismo, especialmente cuando habló sobre cómo reformar los principales derechos a beneficios –Medicaid, Medicare y el Seguro Social– que están llevando a este país por un desastroso camino.
Como era de esperarse, el presidente Obama siguió martilleando con su plan de subir los impuestos a los americanos más “ricos” como solución a nuestro déficit. Pero, lamentablemente y como hemos estado indicando durante meses, el presidente usa la retórica de los impuestos a los ricos que como eslogan de campaña le sirve bien, pero no se basa en la realidad.
Ojalá que entre los millones de americanos que presenciaron el debate por la televisión, haya habido muchos televidentes hispanos dado que estaremos entre los más afectados sea quien sea que gane las presidenciales.
Es por eso que después de ver este debate presidencial, queda claro que el pueblo americano tendrá que hacerse estas preguntas: ¿Cuál es el tamaño y enfoque apropiado del gobierno central? ¿Y cuál es el papel apropiado de la familia, comunidad, iglesia y sector civil en la evolución de la nación? En casi todos los temas destacados de esta noche, estas preguntas formaron parte de la temática abordada por ambos candidatos.
Ud. elige el 6 de noviembre qué camino deberá seguir nuestra gran república.
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