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To: steve harris who wrote (494710)	7/8/2012 12:09:28 PM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793970

Presidents know things that non-Presidents don't. Even after Romney gets intelligence briefings, it will still be a President and a non-President in the debates. I didn't say "Obama will"; I said he can. It's one place where Romney can trip himself up. A misstatement in a debate can get a lot of press and Internet attention. Wasn't there a candidate who put the Iron Curtain in the wrong place? Recall Gerald Ford in 1976: pbs.org In the second debate, Ford erred badly by saying, “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe,” despite the existence of the Iron Curtain in that region. Carter pursued the mistake by responding that he’d like to see Ford convince Polish-Americans and Hungarian- Americans that their homelands weren’t under Soviet domination. Many thought Ford’s poor performance in this debate was the turning point which lost him the election.