Thursday, October 4, 2012  Chris Matthews on the presidential
debate  Chris Matthews gets pretty worked up here, but I was
rather disgusted at President Obama's debate performance,
myself. What was wrong with him?  He just let Mitt Romney lie.
And most of the lies weren't new. They were things the Romney
campaign said at the Republican National Convention and they've
been repeating ever since, claims already denounced by
independent fact-checkers.  So why wasn't Obama prepared? Why
didn't he go after Romney? Most of all, why wasn't he specific?
Even when he did object, it came across as just two competing
claims, with no objective way to tell which was the truth.  The
most incredible thing I heard last night was when Barack Obama
made reference to the mistakes we made in 2001 and 2003 without
ever mentioning George W. Bush by name! Heck, he didn't even
remind people that it was Republicans who made those mistakes.
Personally, I doubt if his debate performance will hurt Obama
much, but it sure didn't help. Mi