gergroy said:
kaneada said:
gergroy said:
kaneada said:
The breakdown as I see it:
Romney was nervous the entire time constantly trying to over defend his points...not that he any real good ones...just recycling the Republican Bravado that has been more than debunked by fact checkers.
Obama hammering on that 5 trillion dollar tax cut borders on rediculous...While I agree that Romney needs to define the loop holes and the deductions he claims will cover the cost of this, it just made Obama sound like a broken record...Overall I do think that Obama's tax plan will be more effective in the long run at this point...I personally I want to see Romney's plan on paper and see how he can possibly make up the difference 5 trillion + 2 trillion in military spending using loop holes and deductions alone...
Overall both performed horribly...Romney being too defensive and Obama was clearly overconfident.
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interesting, it seemed to me that Obama was on the defense most of the time. Comparing Romney's performance to his primary debates, I think Romney may have had the best debate of his life.
In the end though, I think they performed about the same, but I have to give kudo's to Romney for huge improvements.
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How could he possibly be on the defensive when Obama looked like a heroin addict nodding off the entire time?
My reasons behind stating Romney was being defensive is simply his bulying of the moderator the entire time.
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they both talked over the moderator about the same amount of times. In the end, Obama ended up with almost 5 minutes more of speaking time than romney did. I say Obama was on the defensive more because of the actual words they were speaking. Obama was defending his policies a lot more than romney was defending his own. Romney also threw out more attacks at Obama than vice versa.
Romney wasn't defensive, he was agressive, that is what you were noticing. There is a very large difference.
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I disagree wtih your definition of aggressive...using distractions, such as pointing the presidents record out ad nauseum in an effort to mask that you have no actual solutions of your own (anything he did offer was abstract at best), is more of a tactical retreat and is therefore defensive behavior.
