I was pissed, you were pissed, we were all pissed with the President's weak performance at the first debate. More importantly, Barack Obama was pissed off with his performance.
Nobody had to tell President Barack Obama he had whiffed when he walked off the stage in Denver Wednesday night — nor was he in the mood for a lot of advice.
“You could tell he was pissed,” said a person close to the president, “But it wasn’t like the end of the world. It was like, ‘That wasn’t good. The next one has to better.’ No apologies. No hand-wringing.”
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Also more importantly, it is for us. Many of us have become lackadaisical about this race. Romney is a stuffed shirt corporate tool and deserves to lose but that will not happen unless all of us are fully engaged. We must be volunteering, canvassing, letter writing, blog posting, facebooking, twittering and phone calling as much as we can for this President.
“It’s not a positive by any means,” an Obama aide said. “But for our supporters, the debate was sort of helpful because they have assumed the race was locked up. It isn’t. But that message hasn’t been getting through. This might scare them.”
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But I will say this, the next debate really does matter.