Does anyone else wish that Mitt had parried Obama’s call to check the facts by saying that the President’s friend Candy Crowley wasn’t in the room tonight to help him out?
BTW, see Sven from earlier in the week here in this excellent post.
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Facts are slippery things. Something neither tweedledee or tweedledum hang onto for long.
No. I find that sort of schoolyard “gotcha” tactic off-putting and beneath the candidates. See: Obama’s condescending comments toward Romney about the navy.
Yeah you are probably right, but that would have been funny rather than offputting if said in the right tone.