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Karl Rove cautions Obama against being ‘angry and negative’

Oct. 11, 2012 2:50pm

President Obama‘s first real chance to settle the score with Mitt Romney comes next Tuesday. That’s when the two candidates debate again, following Obama’s decidedly poor showing in the first debate.

In the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove has some advice for Obama:

It’s unlikely that Mr. Obama will do as poorly next Tuesday at Hofstra University in New York. His supporters are demanding that he be more aggressive. He will be, telling AM radio’s Tom Joyner on Wednesday that he’d been “too polite” in the first debate.

But if the president is as angry and negative in the Oct. 16 debate as he has been on the campaign trail the past week, he will damage himself again. It’s hard in a town-hall format like next week’s to attack, and too easy to come across as mean and nasty. Also, alleging that Mr. Romney is a serial deceiver—as the president and top advisers are doing—is a hard sell. Mr. Romney came across last week as practical and thoughtful, authentic and a straight shooter.

It’s worth noting that MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson has said Obama’s shoddy debate performance was the result of not wanting to come off as an “angry black man.”

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Comments (3)

  • voting-for-romney
    Posted on October 15, 2012 at 5:07am

    What is it with these alpha male personalities, and they know who they are (I can’t say their names because they are easily offended (no Glenn is not one of them)) that rant and rave about how terrible a job someone is doing, and then offer advice, well, if you really smart like me, you would do this?

    Tell them after they loose the election, write a book? Gee if you were smart like me, you would have done this, and I did not say anything because it was the moral thing to do, let you fire yourself? Now that you’ve lost the election, I can show the world my political genius by offering what I would have done? Sure I offer to help, but at some point in time, you have to actually support the guy you want to win?

    Why try to make them “save themselves” and question your own credibility? What is the definition of putting your foot in your mouth? If I was a stand up comedian right now, in an adult environment, with adult beverages I would be saying, in the voice of Homer Simpson, Mmmmmmm, toes so tasty, can’t resist, (sound effects to gross you out etc.), this is why we all question the media and call it propaganda anymore?

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  • DOJORODA
    Posted on October 14, 2012 at 1:15pm

    I pray to the Lord each and every day for a Godly man of good and decent morals to preside over this nation.

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  • 333maxwell
    Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:02pm

    “KARL ROVE CAUTIONS OBAMA”

    Oh goodness.. that is just adorable.

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