Obama says he's 'just okay' at debating [View all]

[TomCADem]

Source: Boston Globe

LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Barack Obama says he’s ‘‘just okay’’ at debating, as his campaign continued trying to lower expectations ahead of his first face-off with Republican Mitt Romney.

Speaking at an evening campaign rally Sunday, Obama graded his GOP opponent as ‘‘a good debater.’’ The candidates will compete in their first of three debates Wednesday.

The president says Americans deserve a discussion focused on what the candidates would do to keep the country growing and restore middle class security.

Obama spoke to more than 11,000 people gathered at a high school in Las Vegas. The rally was aimed in part at rallying Hispanic voters and featured a performance by the Mexican rock band Mana.


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This is hilarious. I guess the Romney campaign is trying to think outside of the box by raising the expectations for Romney with Christie saying that Romney would reset his campaign (again) with the first debate by laying out his agenda and the Romney campaign bragging about how they have been spending months on end in debate preparation. The NY Times notes their focus on "zingers." I guess it will be a major disappointment for the Romney camp if Romney does not reduce the live audience to tears and President Obama does not offer his resignation in disgust following the first debate.

Afterall, while most candidates spend the week following their convention holding rallies to magnify their post-convention bump, Romney holed up in his compound in New Hampshire away from the press to focus on debate preparation. Given Romney's two Harvard degrees and the millions invested in his campaign, anything less than a complete turnaround would be a major disappointment for Republicans.