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Obama was ‘right on facts, but there were opportunities that were missed’ during the first debate

Former Vice President Al Gore and Current TV hosts Jennifer Granholm, Eliot Spitzer, Cenk Uygur and John Fugelsang share initial reactions to how President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney fared during the first presidential debate in Denver, Colo.

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10 comments // Obama was ‘right on facts, but there were opportunities that were missed’ during the first debate

  • RockyBob
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      RockyBob  
    • Al Gore? He's still sufering from bi-polar disorder and altitude sickness. We had him come speak at our conference and he started wondering off into various off topic dialogues that went nowhere. Spooky. On the upside at least he has someone to dress him.

    • 8 months ago
  • fisaac
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      fisaac  
    • he didn't so much let him have an advantage - he allowed a serial liar to define himself in such a way that he is now decoupled from his base.

      How can he now go back to his base and tell them that medicare and medicaid , social security should be repealed.

      Romney is an entitled fool. He wants to be president. He cares about nothing else , party, people or doctrine. He believes that he is entitled to be president.

      Republicans nor democrats should suuport this fool - both he and his wife believe that they are entitled to be installed in the whitehouse.

      How can anyone truly vote fore him.

      he is vapid and singularly vacuous.

    • 8 months ago
  • RockyBob
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      RockyBob  
    • fisaac:

      Please explain what "an entitled fool" is. Is that someone who works hard and makes lots of money or becomes a multimillionaire? What's that make Bill Clinton then?
      And who's "vapid and singularly vacuous"? Before you criticize someone smarter than you check your basic spelling. Who's the vapid one?

    • 8 months ago
  • AlanJo
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      AlanJo  
    • Obama has subtly ALLOWED Romney the benefit of " appearing" to have a meaningful PERFORMANCE. Because that is what Romney is...an actor giving a performance. He is not AUTHENTIC. Despite the public's lust for wanting the President to go for the" jugular".Our President executed great dignity and decorum, he listened, he did not RUDELY interrupt.These are the virtues of wisdom, maturity,experience and confidence .This was Obama sparing with an underling...assessing his opponent's tactics and behavior. Obama has stealth finesse and is setting Romney up for the coup de' tat. He has allowed Romney his "best shot"and lulled him into a false sense of accomplishment...After all..Obama gave Bin Ladin enough rope to eventually hang himself....No, No, on the contrary my supreme pundits,...you are naive to the true brilliance of Obama's strategy.

    • 8 months ago
  • SenyaBrown
  • RockyBob
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      RockyBob  
    • AlanJo:

      Wow, we're really lucky Obama let Romney win. What a champ! That probably explains why we're having our Embassys attacked. Obama is just letting all the terriorists think they have the upper hand. Obama and Jimmy Carter both read from the same play book. The next step will be us fighting terriorists in our own cities and streets. And we can all know we're really winning. How encouraging. Thanks!!!

    • 8 months ago
  • fisaac
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      fisaac  
    • no

      you are debating a man who has every side of every argument. Let him define himself on a public platform that he canot imply rewrite.

      He has now defined himself as a moderate on almost every aspect.

      Let us just say that under this controlled environment the atom is no longer vibrating with such a high frequency.

      he now has defined himself. He is now open to a debate about contradicting arguments from which he can not so easily slip the noose.

      One might say that Obama now has him exactly where he wants him.

    • 8 months ago
  • WalmartRamen
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      WalmartRamen  
    • The middle class does not work for the middle class!
      It's about the poor. The poor does pull everyone down to their level.
      Supply & Demand does not work with do without!
      Im poor & I walk away from the sale. Give it im not that bad
      that I have to steal food at Walmart, or make METH as income.
      Or turn in my car to get more money to pay the higher rent.

      There is a cost of the poor. Ask a Walmart how many people
      does it take to get 3 workers that pass the background check.
      500 to get 3 in my town, info from 5 years ago. Think of it now!
      And think of Walmart with no or not many workers!

      There is a cost. That is how we got there, people with no money,
      no sales & need for jobs to make things that people are not buying.
      Who gets the money from the workers hard work? Not the worker!
      It's an system that needs to be changed.

      I just want more on the foundation the poor.
      Who are these Middle class think they are going to try to hire?
      50 million poor with no money & a high cost to them,
      enough to close places in your town.
      I am a part of it also. I don't like being treated like a Cash Cow.
      I walk away from a sale. Walk out of an grand opening because
      their stuff was too high.

      The rich, middle class should pay better at start.
      Walmart takes a loss to make a sale. Give it that Walmart
      makes $419 billion & can do that.

      The poor will not go away we will always be around to pull down
      people with us. You have to raise the pay for more sales!

      I stand with Obama here! I know there was not much time
      to hit many marks. What the bulk of people want to know was
      covered there, jobs etc. What will be effecting their lives.
      From my view Obama won! Mitt was the man without a plan!
      Point noted! About Mitt saying he will not cut the schools money.
      He didin't say his friend ALEC will do that for him, I guess!

      Obama did good!

    • 8 months ago
  • mikeschmitt
  • debann50
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      debann50  
    • Obama missed earned zingers: 47%, our welfare program embraced your daddy and gave u warm bed to sleep in.

      any details yet mittens for all the victims,freeloaders, lazy Americans watching tonight.
      Or the voucher program you want for public/private schools for the poor innner city kids to go to, do you have a voucher taxi program to get them there?..... because the reality is a lot of the inner city kids don't have parents that can or want to drive time to voucher schools that are far away. so the very poor kid that comes from a very bad neighborhood will
      be worse off for education, if thats even possible.
      pres Obama must come back and start the next debate and say...okay stop it now, just stop it!!
      Then do his POTUS thing and show the people.

    • 8 months ago
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