2016 Postmortem
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I have been watching MSNBC and it's obvious we all know that their strategy is to make it look like Obama is the liar.
A couple of weeks before the debate, Romney had already started saying Obama does not tell the truth and that he would be up against Obama lying during the debates. They have laid the ground work perfectly and this is going to continue till the end because they have nothing else to run on.
We saw what happened to John Kerry when he got attacked in 2004.They took his honorable military service and turned it against him. So people were talking about Kerry instead of Bush's less than honorable military service.
The first debate went, not good for Obama. How is Obama going to compete with a liar?? How can they have a real debate, when Romney is determined to say anything he needs to say and then when Obama calls him out on it, he will again say Obama is the one who is not being truthful.
My thought and please let me know if anyone thinks this can work.
During the debate, when Romney's untruths start coming out, Obama calls him on it. . Romney of course, will defend his position.
Obama can then say, People Listen Up. You have a right to know the truth and it doesn't appear that you will find out during this 90 minutes.
So, I encourage all of you, to go on my website during this debate if possible, where I have all the issues that we will be covering here. There are short videos categorized such as:
Video - Romney/Ryan Issues on Healthcare
Video - Romney/Ryan Issues on Equal Pay for Women
Video - Romney/Ryan Issues on Women's Rights
Video - Romney/Ryan Issues on Social Security
Video - Romney/Ryan Issues on Medicare
Video - Romney/Ryan Issues on Medicaid
Video - Romney/Ryan Issues on Minimum Wages
Video - Romney/Ryan Issues on Tax Breaks
Video - Romney/Ryan Budget Plan
Video - Veteran Issues
etc.etc.etc......
When you pick a video on a topic, One click to a series of very short clips with dates, showing Romney's flip flopping positions on each subject.
It will be easy to do this while you are watching the debate. It is at your fingertips where you do not have to research, it's already there for you.
It will throw Romney completely off his game.
I know people can always check things out if they want too, to find out what the candidates say, but it seems like enough uninformed/undecided voters do not check it out. This will give them a chance (it can be set up to be very easy) while they are watching the debate. Instead of people tweeting during the debate, verify.
TroyD
(4,551 posts)Attack your opponent of doing something that you are guilty of yourself.
And it started before the debate. Remember when Romney told George S. & others that Obama would be untruthful in the debate?
And then during the debate Romney said "You're not entitled to your own facts" and went on to say that he was used to dealing with liars because of having 5 boys who lie to him etc.
elleng
(131,006 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)We People
(619 posts)It could work if we can communicate this idea straight to the president and I hope he would be open to it!
mary195149
(379 posts)and Ed Shultz MSNBC.
Maraya1969
(22,486 posts)mary195149
(379 posts)is for the Obama Team to put these different videos on Obama's Website or Make a Website where people can actually go too, to see Mitt's past positions on the subject.
Maraya1969
(22,486 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)I'd love to see this fact checking tactic deployed during the debate. It would also force the M$M to deal with Rmoney's many lies instead of scoring meaningless debating society points.
ejbr
(5,856 posts)allrevvedup
(408 posts)and they've gone international. I first heard their pitter-patter the minute the debate was over on BBC World, a couple of clueless brits crowing about how the candidate famous for dissing their country had won a debate they hadn't seen.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)aaarg