Tweety looks like he is going to have a stroke right there on camera.

[Brigid]

I do think he made a valid point, though-maybe Obama doesn't fully realize the fierce debates that go on over the issues. Maybe a little MSNBC would benefit him.

[Thrill]

1. It appears to me, his advisers must have clearly

told him to play it safe

[mgcgulfcoast]

2. playing it safe is a losing hand

[Thrill]

3. I guess they'll learn that for the next one

[helpisontheway]

5. Well

He needs to fire those advisers. They may have cost him the election. And obviously he needs to have someone other than Kerry prep him. He needs tone away from family distractions so he can focus on the next debates. Might be too late if Romney gets a big bounce. Our chance to des with the crappy polls.

[Thrill]

6. I think you're overrating Mittens performance

[We People]

10. Whoever the surrogate is for the next one, they're gonna have to get rude

and aggressive like WMR was. It'll be better practice for Obama.

However... it must be hard to be a surrogate and have to anticipate all the possible ways that Romney could lie without ceasing.

[yellowcanine]

4. Tweety is not a good judge of debates. He likes aggressiveness over quiet confidence.

I remember him insisting that Dan Quayle won the VP debate with Gore back in 1992 simply because Quayle shouted his way through it. He was wrong then and he is wrong now.

[earthside]

7. Matthews is clearly upset.

And he should be.

This 'No Drama Obama' act has used up its usefulness.

Rmoney had energy and although he lied through his teeth over and over, he was sharper, assertive and, well, did a better job 'debating' than Pres. Obama.

It does make me angry that Pres. Obama didn't go into this with the aggressiveness he needed and let Rmoney walk all over him and Lehrer.

All we can hope for is that Pres. Obama comes to the next debate ready to defend himself and his programs AND to call out Rmoney on his deceptions and flip flops (didn't Rachel Maddow say that Obama did not once attack Rmoney?).

[Atypical Liberal]

11. I agree with you 100% n/t

[fugop]

8. OMG really?

It all makes me think of the Obama-McCain (and Biden/Palin) debates. The pundits went on and on about how Obama lost, how he droned on and on, how he was too professorial ... how Sarah was just so feisty and got in Joe's face and beat him ... and then the instapolls completely contradicted them all.

Don't know if they're even doing those this year. But I do remember the pundits were shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you! - to see the public saw the debates differently than they did. Hope this is the case again.

[liberallibral]

9. No way....

I cannot STAND Romney... Or Ryan... But Mitt clearly WON that debate, and even Ed and Chris on MSNBC admitted it.

It's a dark day, but there's at least 2 more presidential debates, and The President CAN rebound!!!