Obama blew his closing statements by developing ultra-energetic conjurer’s hands (“Look at the hands, not at the cards, look at the hands…”)
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The real difference was in style. In his closing statement – after Obama was done making the Ace of Spades disappear – Romney channelled Reagan by looking straight into the camera and asserting his faith in America. It was empty, sugary stuff that will make liberals sick. But it was infinitely preferable to Obama’s constant, nasty attacks. Sometimes in life, the nice guys do win.
Karin McQuillan at American Thinker:
Words don't matter as much as body language when voters decide on the man they trust to lead the nation. Despite all the policy debates, all the fact checking, all the pundits, we don't weigh and balance and research, not most of us. We don't even use our forebrains. We use the most primitive part of our brains, the part that can smell danger, that smells who is the alpha male, who is the omega, who is the rogue. The nose knows who is the real leader. We can smell a winner.
Mitt Romney passed the smell test for the third time last night, and Barack Obama failed. Choosing a president isn't a beauty contest, although good looks help. It is about masculinity. It is about confidence and calm strength. Romney was the happy warrior of the debate. He was the guy so big he doesn't have to pick fights or show off his muscles. They are obvious from his stature and how he conducts himself. Obama was the junk yard dog, trying to protect his turf by mean looks and threatening to bite. He didn't actually get his teeth into Romney a single time. Obama's attempt at a steely gaze came across as unpleasant, hostile, even silly. He didn't faze Romney, and he didn't win anyone's confidence. He made himself smell nasty. A snapping dog doesn't make people feel safe.
And Hillbuzz blogger Kevin DuJan, a gay blogger in Chicago, takes some amusing liberties in his live-blogging the debates last night. He must have become a little punchy towards the end.
OBAMA: China is a partner. It needs to follow rules. I insist that China plays by the rules. We need a level playing field and a trade task force. We have brought more cases against China and we won those case. Hey, ho, raise the roof. There are steelworkers who are selling tires to China now and I saved those jobs. There are gay steel workers in Springfield who love me and those guys know how to work hard and to play hard and that makes me ha…uh, happy.
ROMNEY: China wants a stable world. They don’t want war. They don’t want protectionism. They want economy to work. They have 20 million people moving to cities looking for jobs. China wants to be with a strong America. China does not know what to make of us cutting out military. They see America withdrawing from world. We need trade relations with China that work. China artificially holds down the currency. We lose jobs that way. I will label China a currency manipulator and they are stealing designs and counterfeiting goods. We need to make them understand they have to play by rules.
SCHEIFFER: Is you trying to start a trade war or something?
ROMNEY: China doesn’t want a trade war. We have a trade imbalance now. We can’t just surrender. We have to say to China, look you are playing aggressively but you can’t keep doing these things. China takes counterfeiting products and sells things using our serial numbers. China can be our partner but not steal our jobs on an unfair basis.
OBAMA: Romney sends jobs overseas. He likes doing that because he hates all of you. If we listen to Romney there would be no gay steel industries and we’d be sending all those jobs overseas because Romney is evil. He is going to send those jobs to China. Are you making investments in education? Bitch, I’m going to hire MATH TEACHERS up in here. They will do the math to double the exports. There are currencies that are part of the math and I am going to press it. Press it, yo. Press it like it’s hot. I will transition from Afghanistan to Mathganistan and sends signals that America is a specific power and we will work through with the ships to held them pass through countries. I have basic standards.
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