I could get into a huge discussion of how pointless debates are, but I'd instead like to talk about how I'm sure Obama and his aides knew this just as we do now. If they knew it, wouldn't they have prepared him for Romney, had him prepared to give a show? This cartoonist makes a different argument about what should happen:
In the above cartoon, notice the almost blank faces of both Romney and Obama, almost making them look dumb, or even simple. Of course, there is also the common metaphor of the boxing match, as well as the red shorts of Romney and blue of Obama.
Obama's trainer is telling him to stand back, because they were expecting Romney to go crazy. This idea really isn't that much of a bad one, in fact I would say that in the debate, Romney proved it to be true. What they (hopefully) now understand, is that people don't care if he says things that aren't completely true. I'm sure they knew that all people wanted to see was a show, like a NASCAR race. What has me confused, and what they didn't understand (what no one could have known), is that this time, the car that crashed was the winner. Maybe he convinced them that he cares more. Or maybe it was the fact that he showed his moderate side to all the people who haven't decided.
Certainly, his strategy was effective, and he successfully changed his image. But does it really matter? See my previous post if you want to know what I'm talking about.
