Prez ‘crushed’ by Romney
By Howie Carr | Thursday, October 4, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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If last night’s debate was a prizefight, it would have been stopped at 9:25 p.m.
I had a feeling Obama might have a problem when I heard he was using John Kerry as his Mitt Romney stand-in. If that was the best Liveshot could do getting Barack ready for Mitt, he should be fired this morning even before Bobby Valentine gets his walking papers.
Did you notice how Obama kept looking away from Romney? It took a while to figure out who he was looking for, but then I realized — it was TOTUS, his missing TelePrompTer of the United States.
No one should ever use the words “cerebral” and “Barack” in the same sentence ever again. He bragged about cutting taxes $3,600 for middle-class families — “maybe they can buy a new car.”
And they said George H.W. Bush was out of touch!
It wasn’t just that Romney was smart. It was that Barack was revealed as a clueless dolt. Even MSNBC and The New York Times [ NYT] won’t be able to put this Humpty Dumpty back together again. There’s only one possible excuse Barack can use today: “George Bush’s dog ate my homework!”
Consider the teacher he met in Nevada. She had 42 students and the textbooks were 10 years old. This was the best Barack Obama could come up with?
To use one of Romney’s favorite words last night, he crushed Obama. I think this may have been the first time Barack Obama had ever really been challenged. He brings up that traditional Democrat bloody shirt, oil subsidies, and Mitt just picks up a Louisville Slugger and lands one on his head.
“Those oil subsidies are $2.8 billion. You spent $90 billion on ‘green energy.’ Fifty times the oil subsidies. One of my friends said, you don’t pick winners and losers, you just pick the losers.”
That’s the same joke Mitt used Tuesday, and Obama still wasn’t ready for it.
Somewhere Saul Alinsky is weeping. Now I think we know why Barack refuses to release his grades. The incumbent president of the United States ran out of stuff to talk about. Like Elizabeth Warren with her “millionaires and billionaires,” he fell back on Race to the Top and the 100,000 new math and science teachers, who will of course be paying union dues that can be fueled to Democrat candidates.
And then Mitt pointed out he could have hired 2 million teachers with the $90 billion he squandered on Solyndra and all the rest of his bundlers’ green-energy grifts.
Not even Barack’s soulmate Jim Lehrer could save him.
Then there was Barack’s ringing defense of the layabout community: “Entitlements — the name itself implies some kind of dependency.”
You don’t say, Mr. President.
After it was over, even Comrade Chris Matthews looked like he was fighting back tears.
“Where was Obama tonight?”
He was getting his butt kicked, Comrade.
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