Say Anything

 This is what the Etch-a-Sketch looks like tonight. Not sure where President Obama was. He let Mitt Romney lie over and over and over again and never called him out once. He never fought back and explained the $716 million cut from Medicare or that it's the exact same cut as Paul Ryan's. He even let Romney commandeer the role as advocate for the middle class. The fact checkers are having a field day with Romney's answers, but the sad thing is the American people don't care. I know it's easy to beat someone when you can say anything -- and clearly Obama underestimated Romney's willingness to change his view on a dime ("$5 trillion tax cut? What $5 trillion tax cut?") -- but it just seemed like the president wasn't even engaged in the debate. I thought John Kerry was Obama's practice partner, but based on his head down and stammering, you'd have thought he worked with Caroline Kennedy. If Romney is going to promise the American people that you can eat cake and lose weight, Obama had better put his gym clothes on.


UPDATE: Read what my pal Hank Plante has to say about this "Democratic disaster" HERE. To be clear, I don't think this debate was a game changer. I'm just pissed that the president wasn't more aggressive. I was begging for Rachel Maddow to pinch hit all night long!!!!