…because he was bored?
I don’t buy it. I can believe that he was bored, but I think that’s his natural state. Boring people are that way. And I think he did bring his “A game.” If he really did throw the debate, it’s because in his heart he’s tired of a job in which he is way over his head, and always has been.
The silliest part of the story is the end.
“Given the Republicans’ free-fall in the polls lately, if Obama had put Romney away in the first debate, that would have effectively ended the campaign.”
Don’t they call that “whistling past the graveyard?”
The oddest “free fall” I’ve ever seen…
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
The question to ask is, what does this supposed “A game” from Obama in a debate look like? Do any examples exist or is it just a theoretical state like functional Communism?
I’ve read a -lot- of reasons for why Obama sucked in the debates.
The thing is: Every single one of them should be immediately disqualifying for the job of President.
The one reason that seems most accurate to me (and makes your point quite well) is that the debate involved questions about actual governing, which is not a subject Obama has much interest in, let alone talent for.
Does the incumbent:
– want a republican in the whitehouse when the fecal matter hits the rotary impeller?
– want to retire, but is kept by pride or some pressure from letting someone else in his party run for the office?
– want to keep the job despite being in grossly over his head?
– need to keep the power of the office to stave off prosecution for gross misconduct he conspired to commit?
That article was written in the twilight zone.
I can think of several equally improbable reasons for Obama’s disastrous performance, and one that is probably close to the mark.
1) His Goa’uld symbiote was removed by the Tok’ra.
2) Lt. Cdr Data managed to shut down the alien probe that had interfaced to his brain and made him a super-genius.
3) Lex Luthor put kryptonite inside Obama’s podium, along with the Crystal of Stupid stolen from the Fortress of Solitude.
But much more like is that Obama has been a stuttering idiot the entire time, as half of us have always painfully noted, but the press and the rest of the public so desperately wanted to believe that his was smart that they kept imagining a thought-balloon filled with calculus above his head whenever he was babbling empty platitudes, uhmming, or had that blank look on his face.
Yes, he is like that. I remember being underwhelmed when he had an unscripted performance on The Daily show two years ago. Stewart had a “presidential week” with Obama, Carter and him. He was definitely the weakest one.
Did anyone see the clip of Algore saying Obama was suffering from the altitude in Denver? The President arrived in Denver ‘just’ 6 hours before the debate, and he was oxygen deprived.
What’s he excuse at sea level?
You don’t get altitude sickness at a mile above sea level! I don’t care if you live 5 ft above seal level! Fucking retards!
It was hard for me to listen to Obama rationalise how he made the biggest deficit reduction of all time and how fumbling Romney was calling him on it. I felt like I was being gaslighted.