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If the Biden spectacle is anything to judge by, Obama will be agressive and condescending depending on trying to get gotcha moments on Romney rather than using his time to answer questions with substance. It will be "fact check time.
Look for him to deflect from questions and go on his own tirade.
I would imagine Romney will be waiting for this and have a quip ready for him, letting go with "Are you going to answer the question, or give a speech on what you wanted the question to be, Mr. President?"
Crowley had better cut each off if they try to give stump speeches instead of answering the questions.
I think this one will be nasty and the president will come off nasty. But I hope it isn't the case.
Bain shouldn't come up. It's neither foreign affairs,nor domestic policy.
Well if, and that is a HUGE IF, the Obama camp is not pre-informed what questions will be asked so Obama can memorize his answers, I expect him to use a long rambling discourse to cover the fact that he really can't adequately explain much of anything substantive and he will be allowed a lot of time to do that. I expect Romney to be as well prepared and able to fully explain the substance, but I also expect that if he gets too good at it, he will be cut off before he can complete the explanation.
I expect this because it so often is the trend when you have a moderator who emotionally or philosophically supports one side over the other and cannot fully pull back from that.
But do you honestly think Sandy Crowley wouldn't allow a Bain Capital question (or something similar) if a citizen had a real zinger to ask? In my previous post, Bain was just a rhetorical example of how one side can be skewered.
Again I hope it is fair and impartial. I won't have any confidence in that before it is over. Most especially after watching that CNN Crowley interview I posted up there. But Crowley is already going over all the pre-selected questions with a fine tooth comb. There will be nothing really spontaneous or town hall format in this debate. It has all already been decided. And I expect Obama to have every advantage and Romney to really need to be on his game. But Ronney is usually on his game.
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