The Silence is Deafening: Obamanimpotence

Barack Obama, the world’s greatest orator, rather underperformed last night in the debate against Hillary Clinton. Andrew Sullivan opined that Obama was downright “dreary.” (The Atlantic’s Daily Dish blog) I logged on with anticipation of finding blogomania and there was one big NOTHING. Sure, there were a few blogs blaming ABC. There were more attacks on Hillary, although not as many as usual. But there was little Obamadoration that wakes me up most mornings. Perhaps he has to admit that “No, we can’t” all the time.

He was a dud. The bomb that failed to detonate. Where was the verbal viagra when he really needed it?

Indeed, the whole thing was such a debacle that the only text one can find on the debate is that bashing ABC. It is impossible to find a transcript or any of Obama’s actual answers to the questions. But thank you YouTube! Here is the objective reality check:

And this is about all I could get that wasn’t just stupid questions about his lapel pin patriotism or Rev. Wright, of whom we have all seen enough for now. I couldn’t get his 50 minutes of hemming and hawing every time he was asked a question about P-O-L-I-C-Y.  Granted, he didn’t have a lot of time, but Clinton seemed to have done her homework. Obama hadn’t.

Enjoy the clips, for the little they’re worth. I would add that I found in last night’s debate the only really seriously lie that Senator Clinton ever told, which is that Obama is electable in November.

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