Heh. (for Elan)

@GatewayPundit:

 

 

Ben Shapiro at Breitbart:  

According to Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling institution 53% of viewers thought Barack Obama won tonight’s third debate on foreign policy; 42% thought Romney won.

.... But among independents, the numbers moved heavily toward Romney. While 55% of independents said Obama won the debate, a full 48% of the independents said they were less likely to vote Obama after the debate. 47% of independents said they were more likely to vote Romney.

There can be only one possible explanation for these numbers. While the public thought Obama won the debate, they didn’t like how he won it....

 

Rasmussen Swing State Tracking: Romney 50%, Obama 45%

Heh.

Comments

[Elan]

Yuval Levin at NRO says Obama's reference to "the nation, me" sounded better in the original French :-)

[Mannie Sherberg]

Obama not only looked like Louis XIV -- he channeled him. Louis -- the most absolute of absolute monarchs, the man called the Sun King because nothing on Earth was suitable to describe him -- was, after all, the man who said, "L'Etat c'est moi" - "I am the State." Last night Obama, talking about the protesting Tunisians, said, "This nation ... me ... my administration ... stood with them." "This nation ... me" is the purest Bourbon bombast and bluster -- and a priceless Freudian slip on the part of our faux-monarchical president. On the subject of who won the debate, I think the more important point is that, whoever "won" the debate, Romney last night won the presidency. The Dimocrat strategy collapsed in the first few minutes -- and with it the Obama Reign of Torment. The strategy was simple: Provoke Romney into responding belligerently, run post-debate ads of Romney's response to prove that Romney is a warmonger, and thereby win a second term. So Obama goaded, taunted, and lied in a desperate attempt to needle Romney into a fatal error. Romney refused to take the bait. Instead, he sat there looking patrician, presidential -- and as unflappable as a wingless eagle. Result: the president who equates the nation with himself ended up looking not like the Sun King but like the spoiled, petulant brat he really is. On November 6th the American people will -- depend on it! -- make it plain that they don't want four more years of phony grandiloquence and megalomaniacal pretentiousness. The masquerade is almost over. Far too many Americans now realize that the regal ermines and velvets were never there in the first place; from Day One, our sham emperor has been naked as a jaybird.

[Yael]

Well said, Mannie. From your words to Gd's ear.