WaPo’s Chris Cillizza wonders: Is Candidate Obama overrated?

[Stephanie]

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posted at 12:01 pm on October 8, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

It’s amazing what happens when the emperor is exposed as having no clothes, eh? Suddenly, the media begin asking questions that everyone else asked four years ago about a man who hadn’t even completed one term as Senator and who had no executive experience, running in a distinctly anti-Republican political environment. Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post wonders whether Barack Obama has always been as mediocre a candidate as he was last Wednesday night in the debate:

Obama’s debate performance also raised a bigger question: Is he overrated as a candidate?
Four years ago, that question would have been unimaginable. After all, this was a man who in his first run for national office not only outmaneuvered the Clinton family to win the Democratic presidential nomination but also went on to claim a 365-electoral-vote general-election landslide against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz). And, oh by the way, Obama did all that while raising $750 million (including $500 million online) — a sum that shattered all fundraising records.

The narrative has changed this year, or perhaps it’s better to say that Obama has forced the narrative to change:

Fast-forward to this campaign — and specifically its last two major public events — and you see Obama’s flaws as a candidate in starker relief.
His acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was flat and, rhetorically, felt like a patchwork effort — five or six different speeches all clumped into a single address. His debate performance was glum and defensive, leaving anyone who watched with the overwhelming sense that the president would have rather been anywhere but sharing the stage with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R).

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[thanatos144]

The question had to be asked???? The answer is a resounding DUH!

 

[uscitizen]

All candidates are overrated by their partisan followers.

 

[thanatos144]

All candidates are overrated by their partisan followers.

Yet only Obama gives you freaks a tingle up your leg.

 

[B. Kidd]

Obama is living proof that on-the-job-training sometimes just does not work.

 

[jknowgood]

Yes, obama followers believe the entire lie, that is obama. Just look at how the minon still believe that the embassy attack was started because of a movie nobody knew about till obama apologized for it.