Yeah. I think speaking time tells more about moderating than who is doing a better job. And I disagree with you obi. I feel like Romney challenged Obama more than the other way around. I think he did a good job about talking about the issues he wanted to and avoided to a certain extent the issues that hurt his case.

I think he did better than most would have expected. Obama is cool and collected, but I think he needs to get a bit more aggressive.

Again, it's hard to listen to Romney talk about being bipartisan while Republicans are sitting in Congress screaming, "no compromise!"

I think Romney's smirk is hurting him more then anything else he's doing right now. He's keeping obama off balance well, but he just looks like a jackass when he stands there with a condescending smirk. I'm really surprised how well romney is doing though. It's an interesting debate.

I'd like to see what they're both writing during the other's retort. I suspect racy doodles.

Obama scuttling during that closing statement. Cleaned it up nice for the last couple of sentences though.

Obama had a good finish, I thought, especially on pointing out how vague Romney's being with his promises.

Romney was better than expected, but he did NOT have that big moment or line he needed to shake the race up...

Tie goes to the incumbent--Obama did what he needed to do.

Wow, did they really cut off before Romney finished? Even on YouTube? What jackasses. Shows gets pushed back hours for football but not a presidential debate...

Not on tv, they showed it all

No mention of Osama. That was surprising.

Romney didn't have a strong finish either. Don't know how I feel about it yet as a whole

Economics....good god, liberals....have you NEVER heard of DYNAMIC budgeting? i.e. if you increase/decrease taxes, it may impact economic growth and thus create more or less tax payers. I.e. Tax policy is NOT FUCKING LINEAR. A bunch of fucking college pukes....but too stupid to understand basic economics. 'nuff said.

i.e. Abge...you can Decrease taxes...GROW THE ECONOMY....and thus collect MORE taces....reduce overall spending and INCREASE military spending and still not fuck the economy as bad as Obama has. You are a smart guy....for JUST ONE SECOND....imagine that there are more than two fucking variables to the economy.


Wow....Bunch of morons in here.

Romney beat the shit out of Obama. He gave facts and figures, he enumerated his plans....Obama....with 4 years under his belt....never once to my recollection saidm, "I DID THIS (x) and it WORKED..." A President that never recites his own record....has no record to stand on and need to be fired.


If any of you college pukes...or any of you employed people...had 4 years under his belt and coudln't brag on yourself about your successes...you need to be fired.

Obama was pissed off the *entire* debate...and had no defense for his failures.

PE -- It was a debate on DOMESTIC policy. Osama is not domestic policy.

Ugh....clearly YOU didn't grasp the concept of the debate....

Oh shut up krellin. Neither of the debaters gave a damn about the rules from the way they rolled over Jim Lehrer, might as well have mentioned Osama.

Abge -- Fox News didn't cut him off. Maybe if you ditched the fucking biased liberal media.......JUST ONCE try a media that employs both right AND left wing pundits (Maura Liason, Juan Willaims, etc.) and maybe you will have a different view of the world.

Stick with lame-stream media...and yeah, you get cut off.

Good god....grow up, boy.

In that case, Krellin, I'm surprised Romney didn't cite the rousing success of the Bush tax cuts that didn't immediately precede an economic collapse. Oh fuck, wait, that didn't happen.

@jmo

Oh, that's good. YouTube must have just had a pre-programmed shut off.

Did Romney say anything interesting at the end?

"Maybe if you ditched the fucking biased liberal media"

I didn't realize a direct stream from YouTube was now considered "fucking biased liberal media".

PE....I never said either of them followed the rules. Of course...you lack of radin gability is the problem here....

God what a fucking moron you are...AGAIN...

Buit....PER THE CANDIDATES...this was a DOMESTIC POLICY debate. THAT is why Osama was not mentioned, you fucking moron.

You need to insult everyone on something like age takes much credence from your otherwise solid point krellin. Someone as SMART as you should realize that if you don't insult someone they will take your argument more seriously.

Anyway. I think Romney killed it tonight. Still think he could run into trouble, but his gameplan was solid and his confidence was noticeable.

And besides, how hard is it to tie in Osama. Economy? Foreign policy is an integral part of spending. Foreign policy? Osama's easy to bring in that way. Come on.

Abge....WHO OWNS YouTube....duhhhh......Google, I believe? Shall I start to list the *extreme* bias Google has been cited for over the years? Biasing search results, etc?

Fool....

"radin gability is the problem here...."

Go back to second grade, dude.

lol

OK krellin

My gf is waiting for me, so I'm afraid we can't do our usual song and dance. See you later.

PE.....This is why the electorate...and the country...is fucked. YOu are literally TOO STUPID to grasp the difference between Domestic Policy and Foreign Policy.

You and Abge and friends....have now just further convinced me that American youth are just a bunch of brain-washed morons who can do little else than spew forth the rhetoric pumped in to their brains.

Seriously....just ONCE....rub two brain cells together and use logic, history and knowledge before you issue forth a statement.

Faulting the debate because it doesn't mention Osama...when it was a PLANNED DOMESTIC debate....makes you a fucking moron , PE.

And Abge...you are half a step behind in your misinterpreatations.

God help the moronic youth of America.

Guarantee....OVERWHELMINGLY...ALL media will declare this an everwhleming victory for Romney.

Aaaaaaand along comes krellin to scuttle an otherwise mature conversation.

I didn't fault it, please return to second grade and acquire reading comprehension

>discussing anything with krellin
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I would like to throw in my two cents on a few things. I wasn't able to watch(hear actually) all of it but and I am somewhat biased, I think Romney did better. On the forum matter, I agree with Krellin on PE saying I can't believe they didn't talk about Osama when it was a debate on domestic policy, is kinda dumb but calling him an idiot and just being an overall jackass isn't the way to go about this or really anything.

I watched on CBS, as I don't have cable and prefer a TV to a computer. They did show the whole thing. FWIW (very little), their poll of 500 undecided voters showed Romney winning 46-22, with the balance thinking it was a tie.