It goes without saying that I am a dedicated Obama supporter. That said, this guy pisses me off like no other politician in history.
I'm convinced that Obama is playing the same 11th dimensional chess game that he's been playing since day one. Last night was classic rope-a-dope Obama. Staying on the ropes, getting hammered again and again, but all the while, allowing Mitt to weave a fraying tapestry of lies, flip-flops, and policy walk-backs.
Obama has the election in the bag, but he wants much much more. He doesn't need to win by 10 points in Ohio, he wants a strong enough landslide to proclaim a mandate and a congressional majority to help him enshrine a new New Deal for the 21st Century.
Obama has always played partisans like us. He forces our backs against the wall so that we will come out and fight.
Thanks to his overwhelming lead in swing-state polls, the real danger for Obama going in to last night, was left wing complacency. Well, nobody's going to be complacent now.
Moreover, the public's emerging awareness of the pure EVIL of the Ryan/Romney policy plans, were beginning to drive donors away from the national trainwreck and towards the local Senate and Congressional races. Obama is taking fire so that the local Dems have a better chance of giving him the New New Deal majority he'll need in his second term.
Romney's litany of lies will make for great advertising leading up to the next debates and once the content of some of those lies becomes apparent in polling, Obama will go for the jugular.
Obama is giving us all heart attacks today, but he's going to have a great second term and will leave office with greater prestige than Reagan and Clinton combined.
Keep Calm and Work for Victory