tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post3470398224162694282..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: "That's just not who he is or ever has been"Nancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-29377095816609761832012-10-07T20:37:18.753-05:002012-10-07T20:37:18.753-05:00Wish I'd seen this before. I was a college deb...Wish I'd seen this before. I was a college debater and have been a trial lawyer for around 27 years. One of the people interviewed refers to the need for bloodlust in a debater, the desire to demolish the opponent's arguments and defeat him. It's well-put. President Obama might be a highly competitive pickup basketball player, but there is nothing in his history demonstrating the same kind of competitiveness as a debater. Like any athlete a debater must have an overwhelming desire to win and views an opponent's arguments as volleys to be returned with aggression until ultimately defeated. This is not and never has been President Obama. Catzmawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09009812244200263064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-51832121884377154512012-10-06T21:11:45.683-05:002012-10-06T21:11:45.683-05:00You're right... The President has to be who he...You're right... The President has to be who he is -- that's his strength. But to pretend that his debate performance wasn't subpar is just that... pretending. Who knows why he was off his game? Maybe he had a great game plan that he didn't execute well... or maybe Romney's incessant lying threw him... or maybe he was as tired as he looks from carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders took its toll... or maybe he just had a brain freeze. After all, he's human. But seeing him not doing well in key moments was so atypical, it was jolting. The silver lining is that it was a wakeup call for his supporters to not be complacent and keep working. The President makes course corrections as well as anyone I've ever seen and I fully expect him to find his sweet spot somewhere between going for the jugular and being listless in the next debate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-50609130293212503782012-10-06T10:34:57.102-05:002012-10-06T10:34:57.102-05:00I so agree...it seems after 8 years, people should...I so agree...it seems after 8 years, people should have a strong idea of PBO is. His "performance" in the debate did not surprise me because it is his authentic self. There are still people running around thinking he should be some kind of Shaft caricature - Shaft plays well but in real life, not so much. PBO has nothing to apologize for or justify certainly not to blood thirty media willing to do just about anything to make themselves the news.lochellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05747824926434293999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-3865205684539493312012-10-06T09:13:00.732-05:002012-10-06T09:13:00.732-05:00A-MEN.A-MEN.Leslie Parsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com