tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20444046.post3234458763101655292..comments2023-10-15T07:38:47.371-04:00Comments on Planet Abell: Get Over It: It Was a Fair Fight, And Obama Blew It HimselfUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20444046.post-86274443697371461422012-10-05T08:52:00.559-04:002012-10-05T08:52:00.559-04:00@BasilEden I agree wholeheartedly -- except for on...@BasilEden I agree wholeheartedly -- except for one thing. Calling out a liar doesn't make you automatically seem mean. It's a serious charge, yes. But not doing so gives the liar a form of heckler's veto. And if that liar is also (ahem) shameless, you have no choice but to match point with counterpoint.<br /><br />Obama joked the next day that it couldn't have been Romney on that stage. It was a clever comeback, though it was a day late and this dollar short: That <b><i>was</i></b> the Romney he knew, the guy who has blatantly lied about administration medicare and welfare policy in two ads that still haven't been pulled.<br /><br />There are always things you can point to that weren't fair or right. Things that would have changed the outcome, even if you didn't change a thing about yourself. But the truth is that Gore lost in 2000 because he squandered opportunities that would have prevented SCOTUS from stealing the election from him. And Obama lost because he played the game atrociously. If at all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06115195542770207341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20444046.post-39313725765188511942012-10-04T22:23:28.390-04:002012-10-04T22:23:28.390-04:00No, Obama lost because Mitt did something unexpect...No, Obama lost because Mitt did something unexpected (which we should all have expected): he flat out lied about everything. To prepare for a debate you study your opponent's positions. Obama did that. But then, on the spot, Romney just blandly asserted that the things he has been saying for two years are his positions are not his positions- that he'd never heard of them.<br /><br />This put Obama in a no-win situation. Call Romney a liar and come across as mean; or say nothing and seem like a wimp. It was no-win at that point.<br /><br />It's up to all of us, now, to recognize what Romney actually did was a massive bait and switch. What happened to the tea party Republican? Gone. A Maine liberal has suddenly appeared.<br /><br />This is the biggest lie-fest in US Presidential history.BasilEdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07869877897335222478noreply@blogger.com