Earlier, I wrote that Ronald Brownstein had the best explanation for Barack Obama’s debate flop on Wednesday, but Dana Milbank has a pretty good analysis at the Washington Post, too. Incumbents tend to live in White House bubbles, surrounded by people who tell them what they want to hear, as I noted before the debate. However, this particular incumbent has spent the last three-plus years deliberately avoiding the press, which means he’s not at all used to having his wisdom challenged:
In the hours after the Republican challenger Mitt Romney embarrassed the incumbent in their first meeting, Obama loyalists expressed puzzlement that the incumbent had done badly. But Obama has only himself to blame, because he set himself up for Wednesday’s emperor-has-no-clothes moment. For the past four years, he has worked assiduously to avoid being questioned, maintaining a regal detachment from the media and other sources of dissent and skeptical inquiry.
TONY DIGIROLAMO
THAT'S WHY STEPHENIE CUTTER, CAMPAIGN SPINNER LIAR, STARTED RIGHT OUT THE GATE BLAMING JIM LEHRER THE MODERATER, LIBERAL PBS ANCHOR.
AS IF TO WARN THE PRESS HOW DARE YOU!
Never challenged by the press accept by that Daily Caller, Rose Garden interruptus months ago. It was there that we saw his rattled all shook up answer.
Hey, Jim Lehrer got a testy Colorado high interuptus blowback "I was about to finish in 5 seconds" POTUS given the green he continued with "the longest 5 seconds" in recorded debate historty.
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