SNL’s Second Debate: Crap-Talking Candidates, Loud-Mouthed Long Islanders, And Fact-Checking Crowley
VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/snls-second-debate-crap-talking-candidates-loud-mouthed-long-islanders-and-fact-checking-crowley/
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Did anyone notice that Tom Hanks is the character (at the 8:25 mark) who asked the Benghazi question? 
Hanks was great.
The guy who plays Obama has the inflection down pat. I just wish he could have been cuter. Obama deserves better. The cast member was made up to look like an old man. Obama has a much more eloquent & charismatic presence than portrayed, & I didn't appreciate at all the "I will cut you" line, even though the writers also gave both Romney & his son Tagg violent lines. The only one who is in the news about wanting to punch President Obama is Tagg Romney, so that joke made sense. But the writers were unfair to Obama by bringing his character down to that level, too, because it is based on nothing related to Obama at all but suggestive of strictly stereotyping something that is not there. I suppose the writers may have been lampooning the way the Limbaugh/F'ed (Up) News audience sees things that are not there in Obama. Even so, think of all the 75-ish IQ's who were watching. 
The fact that Romney is a real-life parody of the most unsuitable presidential candidate since the boy king, the writers only had to google; the jokes practically wrote themselves.
Other than that, the writing was very clever.
There was a lot in the skit.
They must have spent quite a bit of time writing opening,
which would explain why there wasn't much of anything else political in the rest of the show.
