The Debate tomorrow
Looking forward to it -- Obama does not speak well extemporaneously.
Obama's handlers express their concern as follows -- from
Town Hall:
Obama Spokeswoman Worries Regular People Too Stupid to Understand Barack's Debate Answers
President Obama is smarter than you, don't you know? According to Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki, President Obama gives such thoughtful, extended answers to debate questions that is makes it difficult for regular people to understand. From the Washington Examiner:President Obama�s campaign spokeswoman said she�s concerned Obama will sound too �professorial� to resonate with the low-information voters tuning into the presidential campaign for the first time during this week�s debate.
�[W]hat the American [people] are looking for is not just a professorial list of facts or accomplishments or even goals,� Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said yesterday as part of her ongoing, almost-comical attempt to lower expectations going into the debates. She then lamented that Obama �has a tendency to give longer, substantive answers.�
Psaki�s concern that Professor Obama will appear during the debates is understandable given that �he was the third-lowest-ranked lecturer� at the University of Chicago Law School in 1999.
What Psaki is trying to get ahead of before Wednesday's debate in Denver is this: when candidates give long convoluted answers during debates it's not because they're smarter than everyone else, it's because they have nothing to say and are running out the clock. Filibustering doesn't count as being too "professorial."
Got a couple pounds of popcorn in the pantry -- gonna be an interesting silly season...
Posted by DaveH at October 2, 2012 1:37 PM