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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Chris Cillizza: Is Obama overrated as a candidate?

In his closing remarks at the first debate in Denver last week, President Obama uttered the following sentence: “Four years ago, I said that I’m not a perfect man and I wouldn’t be a perfect president.”

For anyone who has watched Obama campaign for a second term this year, the phrase is old hat — part of the president’s seemingly self-effacing acknowledgment that he has, is and will continue to make mistakes but that he does so in the service of trying to do the right thing.

But the now-familiar phrase took on a different — and more troubling — meaning for the president in the debate as it capped a decidedly desultory performance that left even his most loyal allies wondering what was wrong with him.

Obama’s debate performance also raised a bigger question: Is he overrated as a candidate?  (Continues)

1 comment:

Chip said...

i think obama can win, but this guy from australia predicts these kind of political events, and is eery accurate, see what he says who will win the current US election http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac4LnNrVtic very interesting.