Chamblee54

It is a few months since the election, and many of us are glad to be done with presidential politics for a while. This post is speculative. The idea is that the poor performance of BHO in the first debate last fall was intentional. Anyone using that link to watch the debate has too much free time.
Before we go any further, it should be noted that PG did not watch the first debate. He heard a bit of it on the radio while he was driving. BHO did not seem to do badly in the part that PG heard. Of course, sometimes these debates are more about visual appearance than substative discussion. Many people who listened to the Kennedy-Nixon debate on radio thought that Nixon won. (PG does not have a link for this, and is not inclined to spend time looking. If it is an urban legend, then so be it.)
Now, the consensus is that BHO did poorly in the first debate with WMR. Many right wing pundits were very happy the next few days. (When you google “the first bho wmr debate”, you get a link for airfare deals on flights from Bhopal to Mananara, (BHO to WMR).)
It didn’t matter after election day. BHO won with ease. What this post wants to consider is the possibility that the poor performance in the first debate was part of a plan by BHO. It would be a high risk strategy, but seems to have worked.
Going into the first debate, BHO was on a roll. The release of the 47 percent video hurt WMR, who had suffered other campaign blunders. The election was looking like a rout for BHO. Maybe the democrats wanted to keep people interested in the race, and make it seem more competitive.
Another advantage of a poor debate performance would be to humanize BHO. He had been such a dynamic campaign performer before the first debate. By showing people that he could have a bad night, BHO seemed like less of a superman, and more of an everyday person.
Perhaps the bad debate performance was designed to divert attention from the attack in Benghazi. This attack seemed to be a serious misstep for the Obama regime. The Republicans were unable to exploit this disaster. One reason for this was the constant attacks on BHO from the Fox News crowd. It was the the boy who cried wolf. When something awful really happened, few people believed Fox news.
Whether it was intentional or accidental, the performance in the first debate is all but forgotten today. By this time, the only voters who counted were the undecided voters in a handful of states. The rest of the county did not count. This is a serious problem with the two party/ electoral college system of electing the POTUS. It is to the advantage of both major parties, and is not likely to change.
Pictures are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.