Obama Often Struggled In Debate Prep, Had To Cancel Sessions
Source: TPM/New York Times
President Obama alternately performed well and poorly in his debate prep sessions leading up to Wednesday night's debate and had to cancel or cut short prep sessions due to his busy schedule, reports the New York Times.
Like other presidents, Mr. Obama’s debate preparations were hindered by his day job, his practice sessions often canceled or truncated because of events, advisers said. One session took place just after he addressed a service for the four Americans slain in Libya, leaving him distracted…
Advisers had seen two presidents during practice debates, one who had been listless and passive two nights before and another energetic and aggressive the next night. It turned out the former was the one who showed up in Denver…
Mr. Obama’s alternating performances left aides walking off Air Force One in Denver looking worried.
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but we don't "all know" the situation as you see it. It's a little more complicated than that.
And... the president can't just turn over his responsibilities to someone else. That's one of the difficulties of being the most powerful person on earth.
and.. Leo Durocher was a ball player, not a political strategist in the 21st century.
I'm not trying to undercut your devotion to the president, I just disagree with your argument.
Flippant name calling suggestions because of one article and the way that you interpret it, just so you can get your jollies when people (yes there are real people who type this stuff in, what i am writing right now just doesn't magically appear) get upset? I hope not, because of course, i never make assumptions like that 
What i like to do, Before I open my mouth, is look at people's past comments that way I can find out if they are trolls, or anti-whatever i want to make a comment about, how about that? Next time it will take you 1 minute to find out about somebody before you decide to be rude.
I actually thought this article was fairly positive because it put Obama in a very human light. And I think that it makes Obama look fallible as well, Which will position him nicely for the next debate and lower expectations. If you follow campaigns, the campaigns themselves don't always like to paint there Candidates as superheroes, matter of fact, the Obama campaign, Spends quite a lot of time humanizing Obama and not making him look like a superhero which is Something that the right likes to do.
And on another note, even though I think this is a positive article, occasionally, I will write things that are open-minded and not so positive, if you look at the articles from the folks who manage this website, And read some of the posting from people that have been here for over 10 years! Even their articles are not always positive, do you Call them anti-Obama?
I've experienced people with attitudes like yours before on this website, sometimes I wish that DU had a forum called "Salem Forum, for Angry witch hunters who like to waste everybody's time"
The good thing is you always have a way to ignore posters on DU, I just looked at your profile and there is a way for me to hide your posts if I want to, Obviously you can also Hide-mine, instead leaving comments Like you did next time. I am not going to hide you yet, but I'm assuming that you will probably hide me, either way we'll figure it out. I personally like the see as many voices as possible, it would've been nice if you would've left a comment with your opinion, but without the name calling?
