Keith Koffler's Quote of the Day

"Excuse me, that man over there is contradicting me.

Please tell him who I am.”  - Barack Obama

 

A note from our attorneys: This is not a real quote.

 

 

Real quotes... enough to last for the next 33 Days:

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

I have a different take on Obama's facial expression. That's a look of disbelief mixed with resignation: disbelief that he's being beaten (and he plainly knows it) and resignation because he knows he's overmatched -- and can't figure out what to do about it. Obama's a narcissist, but not a fool; he knew minutes after the debate began that he was in a tough fight -- and he knew minutes later that he was going to lose. Almost from the outset, Romney had him on the ropes: baffled, befuddled, and bewildered -- and clueless how to respond. That accounts for the increasing incoherence of his responses; as the night wore on, his answers became increasingly confused and difficult to follow. That's why he spent so much time looking downward; like someone who averts his gaze from a smashed-up accident victim, he was averting his gaze from an "accident" in which he himself was being smashed. Idols have been destroyed many times in history, but last night was probably the first time people around the world saw an idol smashed before their very eyes. A truly remarkable event.

[Tom Glennon]

Mannie, as we have come to expect, is spot on in his analysis. In particular, this insightful thought; "the increasing incoherence of his responses; as the night wore on, his answers became increasingly confused and difficult to follow." I am not as erudite as our friend, so I will borrow a phrase I hear from my rural Iowa friends. This sums up my impression of the Obama performance. "It is the empty wagon that makes the most noise." The great orator actually had nothing to say.