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Latest Debate Excuse: Romney Cheated By Using Secret Notes

Oct. 5, 2012 3:25pm Mytheos Holt

Denial is often fingered as one of the first stages of grief, and on some liberal blogs, that appears to be precisely the reaction that is setting in with regard to Mitt Romney’s debate performance this past Wednesday night. Having accused Romney of lying because he contradicted Obama administration talking points and attacked moderator Jim Lehrer for letting Romney control the debate, the Left is now claiming that Romney cheated during the debate.

The source of their complaint is a brief moment during the debate where Romney is seen to put his hand in his pocket and pull something out — something that the Daily Kos suspects of being hidden notes.

Mitt Romney Accused of Bringing Cheat Sheet to Debate By Liberal Blogs

Photo Credit: Daily Kos

From the diary posted on Kos’s website today:

Mitt takes something out of his pocket and tosses it on the podium. It seems as if he maybe using his body to try and screen the movement. It’s very fast, the whole thing is over by 0:00:12.

Yes it could be a hanky. But it falls kind of heavy, and stays uniform in it’s fold. Plus it is flat. I have never seen a man’s hanky be so uniform and flat coming from a front pant’s pocket. Back pocket, yes, breast pocket in a jacket, yes.. but not the front pant pocket.

He was also wearing make up and to wipe any sweat from his face with a hanky would have taken off his make up. Plus remember that old saying “Never let them see you sweat?” If he was seen to wipe sweat from his brow, the optics would have been very bad (“Obama makes him nervous, he can’t stand up to him.”)[...]

I’m NOT saying it is crib/cheat notes .. but I am saying it’s a possibility.
It’s also Mitt “I never found a loophole I didn’t exploit” Romney, who may have committed a felony on his taxes.

This unfalsifiable theory of malfeasance picked up steam for a little while on other blogs, such as Democratic Underground and the Daily Beast, before Buzzfeed shot it down – -not only was the object definitely a handkerchief, but there was actual video evidence of Romney using it:

But according to a Romney aide the object was simply a handkerchief, not an illicit list of zingers.

“It’s a handkerchief,” the aide said simply in response to the post.

Romney can be seen at another moment in the debate using the handkerchief.

Photo Credit: Weaselzippers

Buzzfeed has labeled this faux-controversy the “conspiracy theory of the day,” and it’s easy to see why. The obsession over the details of how the handkerchief folded, and which pocket Romney took it from show how thoroughly impossible to debunk it actually is, short of having a debate podium camera that could snap a picture of what Romney put down. However, given the amount of time Romney spent looking directly at President Obama, even when he (Romney) wasn’t the one speaking, it’s difficult to see how he would have used such a list, and even more dubious that he would have needed such a list.

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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:48pm
I thought they were going to say that maybe the dog ate Obama’s homework……..more specifically, his notes.

Look, Obama sucks and everybody (including his followers) now understand it.

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- NHwinter
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:02pm
  We’ve been told repeated how brilliant, how high his IQ is. Now I say really? Without his teleprompter he just does not come off so intelligent. We need to see those sealed educational records.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:10pm
  correction: repeatedly, not repeated.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:12pm
  Then Obama ate the dog, trying to get back his homework.
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:16pm
  For the pathetic left top even try to suggest that Obama lost because Romney cheated is utterly disgusting. Obama was a wimp in the debate because his policies are bankrupt and he can’t take the message of class warfare to the masses, he can only preach to the choir with that foolishness. Obama is setting himself up to be destroyed in the next debate. He lost, because he and his policies are losers:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLhzOPxcJNc
  
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- HKS
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:27pm
  Bush did it.
- michael48
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:32pm
  affirmative in-action at it’s best…50 years , $10 trillion ..and all we get is …the “white devil” cheated…I want our money back…
  
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- Countrygirl1362
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:48pm
  If you watched Obama on the split screen when Romney was talking, it seemed like Obama was listening to someone else. I started to think that maybe he had an ear piece and was listening to someone off stage coach him.
  
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- Magyar
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:56pm
  I’m sorry folks, but OVomit is not the brilliant man they claim. For GOD sakes he thinks there are 57 states! Come on!
  
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- CrazyDanMan
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:57pm
  Why is it always someone else who is at fault with these guys. Comes down to the primary difference between conservatives and liberals; personal responsibility. When a conservative screws up they say my bad. When a liberal screws up its not their fault.
  
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- rabblechat
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:33pm
  Ok; so for we have:
  
  -It was the Altitude
  -Jetlag
  -He was on Xanax
  -He has been distracted by some donor scandal yet to break
  -He was thinking about his wedding anniversary
  -Mitt had a list of “zingers”on his Hanky
  -Its Bushes fault
  
  Am I missing any excuses?
  
  I cannot wait to watch the VP debate next week; Ryan may want to scale it back a bit though; people don’t like seeing the mentally challenged being picked on…
  
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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:34pm
  You know what I see when I read this…Mitt kicked Obama’s ****, while fighting a cold!
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:36pm
  …..And magical fairies sprinkled pixie dust on Obama causing him to be dumbfounded and unable to come up with responses to Romney. Obama needs to man up. Ask Michelle for your balls back and own the fact that you got your ass kicked on public on TV. A lie is a lie no matter how many times you say it.
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:43pm
  here’s why obama won’t let ANYONE see his college transcripts, EVEN D STUDENTS GRADUATE!!!
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:54pm
  @ rabblechat
  
  Read today’s blog article and tell me what you think Obama truly, TRULY fears.
  http://barnhardt.biz/index.cfm
  
  …not getting re-elected is the least of his worries.
  
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- Roberto G. Vasquez
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:56pm
  DR STRANGELOVE revisited? Did anybody else notice that Obama had a facial twitch or tic just below his right eye that got worse and worse as the pressure of the debate got to him? Reminded me of the unhinged general (played by George C. Scott) in that old WWIII movie!
  
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- smlgov
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:56pm
  Sorry, but Obama ate the dog before the dog could eat his notes!
  
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- americansfightingforcommonsense
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 6:04pm
  Obama had a rough night. That’s what happens when you have been smoking a joint on Airforce 1 right before you go to the debate. It just makes him LAZY you know.
  
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- Taquoshi
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 6:27pm
  @Rabbelchat -
  
  Thank you. I was wondering why I found the small part of the debate that I watched painful. It was because B.O. was so hopeless out classed. You’re right. I don’t like seeing the mentally challenged being picked on…
  
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- Uranium Wedge
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 6:39pm
  Obama was the one who kept looking down at his index cards.
  They can’t be this stupid, without it being some kind of disease.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 6:59pm
  Between a magical mormon hanky and the altitude, Obama had no chance.
  
  LMBO!!!
  
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- symphonic
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:45pm
  Except the “”daily KO” who make up conspiracies about kleenex
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 8:20pm
  It’s amazing how much Hussain has to say when he is not in front of President Romney.
  They did not like the way the debate was done cause no one was covering up for Hussain and the truth was allowed to be presented!
  
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- Ethereal
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 8:57pm
  I am just curious is it against the rules to have any kind of notes in a debate?
  
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- Hiswill
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 9:37pm
  Obama is only as smart as his teleprompter tells him he is.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 2:12am
  @RABBLECHAT
  
  I think you missed the one, where Barry had an upset stomach and was concentrating on the can. Barry will probably claim someone sent him a mysterious burrito for lunch which he ate. Then again, maybe Mitt took from the ‘Spies Like Us’ movie play book and was rippen em to foul up Barry’s concentration. One thing’s for sure, Mitt came armed with a hanky to cover his nose. Don’t be surprised if these are officially thown into the mix of reasons by dems.
  
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- KURT1010
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 5:39am
  I thought Al Gores was the best. The altitude in Denver….One Nobel winner explaining the another winner. Hell, high school debater could do a better job !
  
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- Obama Been Lauding
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:08am
  If I were Obama, I would blame it on a Tsunami, or better yet a hurricane named “Mitt”!!!!
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:51pm
  Yawn
  
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- Touche Turtle
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 10:23am
  Well, you can be SURE there is absolutely NO PROOF that the dog ate Obama’s homework . . . BECAUSE Obama ate the dog!!!!
  
  I have been waiting with baited breath for Valerie Jarrett to come out with her “spin” on what happened to the smartest man in the world when he had to “put up or shut up!” I have no doubt that there is a very valid reason for this “no show” performance by the President . . . maybe he has been working too hard . . . or maybe he is exhibiting symptoms of golf withdrawal because his campaign schedule is just overwhelming . . . or just MAYBE we are now seeing the REAL OBAMA!!! The debate set for October 16 could be the real game changer . . . is he going to come down with some dreaded disease so he again can be mentally absent?
  
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- Reese23
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 10:48am
  Ohhhhhhh pleeeeeeeeease!! What next? Romney whipped the wimps arse. This insults all of our intelligence.
  
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- Goodforall
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 10:57am
  These moronic sheep who follow this fake are in super desperation mode-and in a state of denial. He was fully exposed for what he is-a complete loser! Can’t wait until the next one!
  
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- DennisHabern1
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 11:40am
  Were notes not permitted during the debate? Personally, I do not care if either of them used
  
  notes; does the rest of America feel the same way?
  
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- cburchfiel
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 1:02pm
  Agreed , the libs will do anything at this point!
  
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- pogojoe
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 1:52pm
  No ,,,, ODUMBA ate the dog for supper ,,,,
  
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- firedbymormonmoron
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 4:54pm
  Maybe Obama should’ve done the same thing, with a little lye on it, so that he could remove enough toilet filler from his face to let us see that his brain is both full of it and on crack.
  
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- missnellie
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 7:30pm
  Oh for the love of heaven…by the way Romney believes in heaven and we aren’t sure what Obama believes in…CHEAT SHEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How despicable a “guess” and how can people go.
  
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- Psicologio_The_Honest
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 5:19pm
  mr Romney USED THE HANDKERCHIEF JUST TO HAVE AN EXCUSE TO DEFEND HIMSELF AFTER !!!
  IF YOU SEE THE VIDEO TIL WHEN HE LEFT THE STAGE YOU SEE THAT HE BRINGS WITH HIM a A4 FORMAT RIGID PIECE OF PAPER..HE TRIES TO HIDE IT IN HIS POCKETS, HE FINDS NO PLACE AND AT THE END HE GIVES IT TO A MEMEBER OF HIS STAFF…IT’S USUAL TO GIVE YOUR USED HANDKERCHIEF TO SOMEONE ELSE !!! Wake up, folks !!!!!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQMMzbqXng&feature=player_embedded
  PS : see it just to the end !!!
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:48pm
Mitt’s notes were in the Right Lobe of his brain!

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- encinom
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:31pm
  Mitt need to list all the lies he told Wednesday night. He campaigns on a tax cut, that is no longer a tax cut.
  
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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:33pm
  Encino
  He wants to cut the percentage rate and get rid of deductions. It is called simplifying the tax code. Try to keep up.
  
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- FEMALL
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 6:40pm
  mtcountrygrl–Dyslexic Moncine can’t keep up–he/she has been busy writing their conspiracy diary on the Kos.
  
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- Uranium Wedge
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 6:58pm
  So ENCINOM, how much are they paying you?
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:05pm
  @encinom:
  
  I feel bad for you. No matter who wins the election, you won’t understand why. I believe 100% in evolution, survival of the fittest, and ANYONE that cared to watch the debate saw a gazelle get taken down and bled out by a healthy predator. BOOM!
  
  R&R FTW in 2012!
  
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- Psicologio_The_Honest
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 5:25pm
  THIS IS MYMIND..ALL THE WORLD MUST KNOW..THE TOPIC IS RIGHT…
  IT’S FIRST TIME IN HISTORY A CANDIDATE CHEATS LIKE ROMNEY DID !!!!
  
  mr Romney USED THE HANDKERCHIEF JUST TO HAVE AN EXCUSE TO DEFEND HIMSELF AFTER !!!
  IF YOU SEE THE VIDEO TIL WHEN HE LEFT THE STAGE YOU SEE THAT HE BRINGS WITH HIM a A4 FORMAT RIGID PIECE OF PAPER..HE TRIES TO HIDE IT IN HIS POCKETS, HE FINDS NO PLACE AND AT THE END HE GIVES IT TO A MEMEBER OF HIS STAFF…IT’S USUAL TO GIVE YOUR USED HANDKERCHIEF TO SOMEONE ELSE !!! Wake up, folks !!!!!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQMMzbqXng&feature=player_embedded
  PS : see it just to the end !!!
  
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OneTermPresident
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:48pm
Everything they pull out… has the odor of where it was pulled from.

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- DarkJello
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:06pm
  Yuck. :|
  
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mbean
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:46pm
Accusing someone in a public forum of committing a felony sounds like Libel. Sue them.

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80mesh
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:46pm
if ol blameo cant handle the mile high city ….just how foggy is his mind at a cabin pressure of 8000ft in AF 1 ??

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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:34pm
  What does the POS BHO have in common with American Airlines planes?
  
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coyote1hell
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:45pm
BAHrack got his skinny little **** handed to him, and his deaf,dumb,and blind followers cant’ stand it..

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SunTzuYou
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:43pm
What was BO doing? doodling. Progressives cheat for a living, when did they get a soul?

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warr9553
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:43pm
no obama is stupid,he did not have anyone tellin him what to say.

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whatda
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:43pm
This just in: The AP has reported that Mitt Romney and Michelle Obama have been having an affair. When questioned Romney responded by saying “This just proves that I love both women and minorities…and by the way, 7.8% my ass!”

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huey6367
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:43pm
The Dems lost the debate and, in typical fashion, are pulling out all stops. they just make themselves look stupid. It was a handkerchief. He used it while debating.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:21pm
  Anything to protect their precious man-child, before he starts to get weepy and emotional about it. I notice Oblameus is STILL telling crowds that Romney wants to cut taxes by 5 trillion, even though he was corrected three times by Romney, himself.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:41pm
Instead of concocting ridiculous theories about why Romney WON so DECISIVELY, perhaps obama’s cultists should ask him to NOT hit the bong so hard before the next debate. BIG BONG BARRY has enough trouble keeping his lies straight as it is, but, walking into a debate, stoned out of his mind, certainly doesn’t help his performance.

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- NHwinter
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:58pm
  It could have been that combined with the fact that he came without his pacifier, the teleprompter.
  
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DiamondDog
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:40pm
Men with class have a neat and uniform hanky. The left is so desperate.

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mixplix
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:40pm
It really is a joke that the msm thinks the public is going to note what they say after being lied to for almost four years. The 90 min. video untouched by the left, kicked the trap door open to the gallows. All the screaming, lies, experts, lefty columnists, tears, promises and anything else coming from the left will fall on a laughing voting public.

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Cavallo
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:39pm
The first Gay President was just off his game because he was off his diet of Golden Retriever and it distracted him.

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 5:50pm
  @Cavallo
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:39pm
  
  The first Gay President was just off his game because he was off his diet of Golden Retriever and it distracted him.
  ***
  Are you saying the getting of the 1st dog was his best effort at “Food Insurance”?
  
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Seth Patriot
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:39pm
Isn’t Obama brain an oxymoron?

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Action-Not-Just_Words
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:39pm
Ah Geeezzzzzzz….. It’s Bush’s fault!!

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AvengerK
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:37pm
So what’s Barry’s excuse again? Oh yeah…the altitude. Is that what it will be when he gets sent to the woodshed again in the next debate?

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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:02pm
  This is the first time he was confronted by Mitt. In fact, no man has ever confronted him this way. He found Romney so sexy that he couldn’t possibly focus on the Marxist remarks he had prepared. He was thinking of Mitt later on that night when he had to.. ugh.. Michelle..
  
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- landman1
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 4:16pm
  That’s so right. If Obama thought he didn’t want to do the first debate can you just imagine what’s going through his head now…… “Shiite, I gotta face this dude two more times? We gotta see if we can fit Axlerod into the podium. I need some freakin’ help up in here!”
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:37pm
They’re in a state of complete panic. It’s a beautiful thing to watch. Now where is my Romney/Ryan yard sign?

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:36pm
God Above, thanks for showing the lunacy and imcompetence of Team Obama; they are growing absolutely desperate after the crushing defeat Obama took in the debate.

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RepubliCorp
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:35pm
and maybe it was a Obama brain jamming device

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REPUBLICANINCALI
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:34pm
I was wondering what Obummer kept looking at. Maybe his Blackberry that wasn’t giving him what to say fast enough?

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floridareader
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:34pm
That is called being prepared.
He was in a public debate not in a high school test.
Liberals’ excuses for being losers are so annoying.

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- drs1969
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:20am
  This was the first time in his life he was in a ‘real’ debate. This is what Affirmative Action is all about. We’re reaping the the bountiful harvest of Affirmative Action, as our country dies under it’s weight.
  
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SREGN
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:31pm
Hissy fits are so entertaining.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:31pm
Mitt takes something out of his pocket and tosses it on the podium. It seems as if he maybe using his body to try and screen the movement. It’s very fast, the whole thing is over by 0:00:12.

Mitt is a magician and he’s going to make a skinny Marxist mulatto maggot POS disappear on November 6th 2012. Enjoy the massacre.

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- vamom2
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:38pm
  Love it!! Good one.
  
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MrButcher
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:28pm
Ah, watch ‘em squirm!

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