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okay now let's get into some of them some of the me here
mit romney mentioning clean coal
there's no such thing as clean coal clean coal as an idea exist it something
republicans talk about it something sometimes president obama has talked
about but it's not real
this is no different than that romney referencing bigfoot for the loch ness
monster he's talking about something which is not real
case in point
romney took two minutes to get his first wife saying he won't cut taxes for the
rich said that in his first answer just not true
numerous nonpartisan tax policy centers have said just not true it's it's going
to happen
hiller taxes for the rich
two thousand eight all over again i thought you know bontot refusing that
first call from jim lehrer to respond directly to ronnie
and instead he looked over romney
he looked back at gym where and he went into talking points completely
disconnected from anything wrong he said now on the time seems to think
that this may have been a strategy this'll bomb a
kind of being being very uh... wax and low-key and not going after not taking
an opportunity to bring up the forty seven percent video when talking about
poor people
missing a lot of opportunities
i don't think that
you know obama looking tired board uh... listless uninterested was part of the
plant
i think that was just uh... of failure on his part hopefully won't do it again
as for the strategy i do you think it seemed
like there is a clear strategy not too
let romney feed off of anything he was saying to get any zingers then
obon was just gonna answer very calmly very simply thirty-one peacefully as all
the pundits call it
and let romney incriminate himself and then later on after the debate over you
know pummel emo on the campaign trail and in the you know campaign ads so if
this is kind of like the ultimate conservative defense he played no
offense
you just play enough defense to basically keep the lead
by the time the game ends right justice don't do anything that will have you
lose the lead by november
democratic
uh...
i don't know let me know i i think we have to wait a few more days and n c but
uh... he was definitely strictly playing defense
and
i don't know kinda like uh... when you're watching a fighter defend his
belt he just kind of dances around
while the other guys trying to knock about it makes for a pretty boring fight
it definitely is aren't pets
basically what was going on here we got into the deficit and one of the most
popular moments that blue the resulted in the most internet means was when mit
romney said you know we're gonna cut subsidies to p_b_s_ i mean i love big
bird and i love you jim lehrer but we're going to cut subsidies to p_b_s_ listen
that just because sesame street is the only thing you watch on p_b_s_ doesn't
mean that that uh... all the p_b_s_ does and let's talk about the real issue with
that lewis
p_b_s_'s point zero one two percent
of the budget
the idea
that this is even a good strategy to say let's cut p_b_s_
is absurd because it is just nothing it's it's not
the college rock in the bucket
would be to hugely overstate the importance of p_b_s_'s part of the
budget you probably close one military base in the country that we have no
stake in the
and and save more than in say the hundred times that no question about no
question about it
i didn't like the fact that when we started talking about deficit during the
debate
present obama didn't just say listen
whatever you can say about the deficit and trillions and this and that
i am the president
who was growing the deficit by the smallest amount
fins ice and how
according to nonpartisan research
didn't say and again the time you think maybe it's just about don't say anything
that could then be used in a political act
well it's funny
um... you know later on we can interview dennis campbell and uh... he you as we
know he has a theory about what might have happened here with the obamas a
tired look
but wat it into that later on i i think overall
this was a strategy i think in part it failed because of bomb a seemed to be
just you know what he didn't want to be there and let me point one more thing
out some of the pundits have said and i i
kind of think that this might be true
that you know what's going on is that obon the really dislikes romney on a
personal level he just hates this guy
when he's talking to his aides about him he just these amounts like a
as a total unprincipled just opportunist
and it kinda seemed like during some of those you know cutaway shot through the
during the split screen
he was just fed up with this kind he had that
half smile
trying to cover it up and i think it showed he definitely seemed fed up but i
just think think that he would be able to control that better
but i think what's
um
i mean we're when you're
when you're at this level i think everything is is calculated and the the
thing that that we will hear later for a mad dennis lee brought up in is
interesting that didn't think about that uh...
the budget you have to assume
that everything
was executed
as planned or whether or not those plans for were good idea
is uh...