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Tuesday’s debate between President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney
was a symbolic confrontation between the corporate boardroom, which
operates under one set of rules, and the Oval Office, which operates
under quite another.
In the Denver debate, Romney was the hard-charging CEO, ignoring moderator Jim Lehrer like some company underling. He barraged Obama with facts and figures that showed the president failed to make good on his economic promises for his first term — still Romney’s strongest talking point — and drew Obama into arcane discussions about calculating tax impacts of deficits that sounded good for Romney, since the average voter is unlikely to dig into the numbers. (Hint: They don’t add up.)
It’s going too far to say that Obama acted like somebody who had just wandered into the debate, but he was curiously dispassionate as he ran through his rote talking points.
Unfortunately for Romney, the real Obama showed up Tuesday night, and
whatever Romney thinks of Obama personally, Americans expect some
deference to, and respect for, the person who holds that office.
Romney made a clumsy attempt to exploit the murder of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, implying that the president was negligent or indifferent.
Retorted the president: “I am ultimately responsible for what’s taking place there because these are my folks, and I’m the one who has to greet those coffins when they come home.” He added that any suggestion that his team “would play politics or mislead is offensive.”
When Romney suggested that Obama waited two weeks to deem the attack an act of terror, Obama said bluntly, “Check the transcript.” Moderator Candy Crowley confirmed that Obama had indeed come out the very next day and called it a terrorist attack.
Crowley was a heroine of the evening for keeping two strong personalities in line.
Romney may have felt that his extensive preparation for the first debate was sufficient because, smarting from allegations about his Chinese investments, he began badgering Obama about the contents of the president’s own pension portfolio.
As Romney should have known, Obama’s presidential pension when he leaves office will match Cabinet officials’ current annual salary (it was $199,700 in 2010). If the Treasury has that invested in the Chinese stock market or government bonds, Romney is sitting on a great story. Come by the office and we’ll talk.
In this battle, the Oval Office beat the boardroom and Candy Crowley deserved a medal.
Dale McFeatters writes for Scripps Howard New Service.
Article Via http://www.bostonherald.com
In the Denver debate, Romney was the hard-charging CEO, ignoring moderator Jim Lehrer like some company underling. He barraged Obama with facts and figures that showed the president failed to make good on his economic promises for his first term — still Romney’s strongest talking point — and drew Obama into arcane discussions about calculating tax impacts of deficits that sounded good for Romney, since the average voter is unlikely to dig into the numbers. (Hint: They don’t add up.)
It’s going too far to say that Obama acted like somebody who had just wandered into the debate, but he was curiously dispassionate as he ran through his rote talking points.
Romney made a clumsy attempt to exploit the murder of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, implying that the president was negligent or indifferent.
Retorted the president: “I am ultimately responsible for what’s taking place there because these are my folks, and I’m the one who has to greet those coffins when they come home.” He added that any suggestion that his team “would play politics or mislead is offensive.”
When Romney suggested that Obama waited two weeks to deem the attack an act of terror, Obama said bluntly, “Check the transcript.” Moderator Candy Crowley confirmed that Obama had indeed come out the very next day and called it a terrorist attack.
Crowley was a heroine of the evening for keeping two strong personalities in line.
Romney may have felt that his extensive preparation for the first debate was sufficient because, smarting from allegations about his Chinese investments, he began badgering Obama about the contents of the president’s own pension portfolio.
As Romney should have known, Obama’s presidential pension when he leaves office will match Cabinet officials’ current annual salary (it was $199,700 in 2010). If the Treasury has that invested in the Chinese stock market or government bonds, Romney is sitting on a great story. Come by the office and we’ll talk.
In this battle, the Oval Office beat the boardroom and Candy Crowley deserved a medal.
Dale McFeatters writes for Scripps Howard New Service.
Article Via http://www.bostonherald.com
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