Obama can identify with common folk? He NEVER had a REAL job. Had no experience or track record when he became President, and has Magic Muslim underwear.

HAHA Brandt, you must be losing at a drinking game to the debate.

@Brandt Harding.... nice Religious slur.... shows your true character.

I was reading Rushdie's Midnight's Children tonight. I get stressed watching Obama. My wife and a hard lefty friend in the Bay Area say Romney easily won.

Brandt: How is that hope and change working now?
You should have waited three hours before you opened your mouth- don't you agree?
Brandt?....Brandt????

Brandt's comments are indicative of this entire election. Barack Hussein Obama and his supporters KNOW they have nothing positive to run on. The only way they can win this election is to campaign negatively...even if they have to make it up.

@Brandt has nothing substantive to offer, so again he resorts to class warfare and religious bigotry.

Where's the lefties condemning such envy, contempt, and bigotry coming from their side, as all Hoffa hears from the left are crickets!

He's a Jeremiah Wright disciple.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H2o2fKbLJc8

A real job is not a government job. We can add 15 million new government jobs and it won't do a thing for the economy. Don't feel bad for asking Lorenzo, Obama doesn't know what a real job is either.

He's already prepared for his next job!!

Read about Romney’s 27 lies, distortions and inaccuracies that he told at the first debate.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/10/04/958801/at-last-nights-debate-romney-told-27-myths-in-38-minutes/

This guy will say anything in order to try to get elected!

We simply can't trust him! Learn more about these Romney lies at the Washington Post's Fact Checker Blog, MediaMatters.org and FactCheck.org.

@Joseph Robert -

Once again, the sources you cite are all known for their extreme liberal bias - especially ThinkProgress.

Not that any of the so-called 'fact-checkers' have ever proven to be all that accurate, but most of the somewhat reputable ones seem to concur that both Obama and Romney equally misrepresented the full truth during the 90 minute debate, with Obama actually doing just a bit more 'lying' than Romney! Even then, much of the assertions of the so-called 'fact-checkers' are premised upon interpretations, assumptions, conjectures, projections, suppositions, etc as opposed to hard objective truth!

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/fact-check-presidential-debate-missteps-155346190.html

Perpahs you need to learn how to research the primary sources for youself, peform your own analysis, and come to your own conclusions instead of being a lemming to the liberal media opinion makers!

Don't believe the self-declared 'fact-checkers' - do your own research of the primary sources and come to your own conclusions!

Especially when Romney was only given half the "2 minutes"

@morninmist -

What 'mandates' on women's health care is Mitt proposing exactly?

Making crap up again?

Searching for the teloprompter hoping it would magically appear.

Even they can't spin this one! Is that tingle leaving Chris Matthew's leg tonight?

He shouldn't leave the White House without his teleprompters. The teleprompters have first class seats on Air Force One.

Keep it above the belt pls.

Very descriptive :)

@mau -- Very descriptive? Barack Obama actually reminds me of Arthur Ashe and Jackie Robinson, trained to hold their tempers and calm demeanor in the face of direct insults. It's a style I recognize and use myself. It's a mistake to call it weakness.

@bob ... Im not surprised either that Patch is in Obama's camp.... look at all the Obama ads every time you log on. I wonder if any of those ads are actually paid for?

I'm sure they're paid for. I think that's more indicative of the Obama campaign targeting a venue they believe effectively reaches those most likely to support him than anything. You see those same banners on the AOL/HuffPo site.

The field of journalism (if you check the credentials of the Patch editors, many have degrees in or studied journalism) has always been populated predominantly by those on the left. There really is no logical argument against it, as it's been proven in studies time and time again. In the days when newspapers ruled the field, express bias was forbidden. With the new media comes new rules - or less rules if you like.

Patch "encourages" its editors to express their political leanings. I think that's a mistake if you're intending to pass yourself off as an unbiased quasi-news source. I think it's obvious in the transcript from the "live blog" that some of the editors take that encouragement to mean they can attempt to spin an event in a fashion that suits their political leaning. The result is content, intermingled with and not really differentiated from other articles here that are supposed to represent news reporting that demonstrates a very clear bias. The assumption is that the reader will accept that this bias never finds its way into the reporting. I don't think that's a fair, or even a reasonable, assumption on the part of Patch management.

@Bob -

Excellent observation and analysis, as usual!

@Brian
I love your default assumption that If Obama is re-elected peace will rain down from a rainbow filled sky and Iran will fall into line and never pose a larger threat. Your entire ideology on foreign policy is based on an assertion that America is the problem, yet you have no proof the world would be better with out us.

If you want a neutered America helpless to defend the world against an Iran and Muslim Brotherhood wishing to roll over Israel and the rest of the Middle East most likely starting WWIII, then vote for Obama.

Has he stated he was going to start a war with Iran? How is he any more likely to start a war with Iran than Obama? Got anything, really? Just a feeling on your part? Disappointment over Obama's performance last night got you grasping at straws?

What is it, Brian?

Come on Brian! Is that the best you got? Fabricate something better because you have to throw a lot more crap at the wall.
Iran has been an ongoing issue and BO's plan is do nothing until it is too late- then offer them flowers and rainbows. (because it worked so damn good in Africa)
I think your smeller is faulty. Mitt's $2.1 Trillion is to replenish what was used up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember it was unfunded wars. We used supplies, had equipment blow up- it is time to replace them; we need to do that to protect American Security. We can't afford to do it under Barry because the economy still sucks, and with no plans to fix it- Obama is a failure.
Mitt laid out a plan for us, it included fixing the economy,and replenishing the military (so our kids don't have to take a knife to a gun fight).

Indeed, Obama's lack of a response to this point of issue in the debate conclusively proved once and for all that he is the one causing the partisan divisiveness and gridlock, and not the GOP. Let's not forget, the Obama one liners of "elections have consequences," and "I won."

For four years, the media has refused to call him out on this and finally Mitt Romney did!

Of course, the left will still act in denial about this very real FACT and continue to point the finger at Congressional GOP obstructionism - after all, LYING is pretty much all they know!

@Hoffa He still doesn't seem to understand that in politics you will have political opponents. All of our other presidents accepted this reality.

@Michael -

To the contrary - that was Romney's point - a real leader finds way to work together with the opposition. 87% of the legislative body was opposed to him in MA and he managed to make it work.

Romney = leadership
Obama = divisiveness

@Hoffa What I meant to say was that every president has had to face opposition; that comes with the job and they deal with whoever they have to in order to get things done. Obama's ego cannot accept the fact that not everyone agrees with him. He distrusts those who don't. He reminds me of Nixon in that regard.

@Michael -

Obama's paranoia of the opposition is far worse than Nixon's was!