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Referee Obama? President Tries to Play Moderator During Romney Response to China Attack

Oct. 16, 2012 10:34pm Jonathon M. Seidl

Tuesday night’s presidential debate was quickly filled with interruptions and cross talk. But at one point when Mitt Romney tried to expand one of his answers to an immigration question to respond to an attack regarding his investment in China, President Obama stepped in to play the role of debate moderator, even begging the actual moderator to cut Romney off.

“Candy, hold on a minute,” Obama said after Romney veered off topic. The moderator, Candy Crowley, eventually allowed Romney to finish. Romney concluded by responding that his investments are managed by a blind trust and turned the tables on Obama, asking him if he’s looked at his pension recently.

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ambrosia
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:50pm
It’s so funny that Romney kept asking point blank questions to the idiot
and the idiot didn’t answer,
chose to divert the question & pivot onto something else.

The Boy-King feels he’s above being questioned about anything-
especially, sore topics.

When Oblameo was talking about howmany jobs he created,
Romney should mention by name, his stimulus failures-
Solyndra, etc.

Earlier today,there was news about the company
making batteries for the Chevy Volt went bankrupt-
they received almost 300 miilion dollars of taxpayer money.
Romney should have mentioned it,
just seeing the expression on Oblameo’s face
would have been worth it.

When he starts to rage, he skin bristles & his eyes dart.

Why has the “You didn’t build that” quote been shelved ?

Romney & Ryan needs to mention that phrase every time they speak-
that one ignorant statement in four years of many
made most the reactionary **** on Americans’ necks stand up,
only to tell Obama to go to hell.
It was the gift that kept on giving…..dont let it die down or go to waste !

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- 2smartobeadem
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:24am
  Yes I feel the same way since you mention that. There is so much firepower for Romney he cant say it all in 14 days. yes libya is the lie they can’t lie anymore . Next debate Romney will get a big win.
  
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- Amarilloan
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:35am
  Obama has arguements about Solyndra and such. They aren’t good ones, and they don’t explain why Obama is using the Federal funds as a bank for such ventures. As far as the “You didn’t build that” comment, It’s still out there and Romney has no need of it in debate.
  
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- WhiteFall
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:55am
  I agree and the next time Obama accuses Romney of non-specifics, Romney needs to simply assure him that any legislation he presents for passage won’t have to “be passed to find out what is in it”.
  
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- bobdiamond
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:56am
  Did you also notice that Obama never responded to Romney’s question on Fast and Furious? Read political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- SageInWaiting
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 7:12am
  I COULDN’T stomach the debate. I am SICK AND TIRED of that %$#%^&$ LIAR! What a thin-skinned narcissist. If this man DOES lose the election, the period from NOV to JAN will be the most dangerous this nation has ever experienced. This narcissistic ideolog won’t take well to rejection and I fear payback – a scorched earth policy will be employed that will fulfill his vision of bringing this nation to its knees. Prayer can’t stop on election day.
  
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- 4kidsandacat
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:21am
  I think that quote has been shelved because it was devastating. That’s the same reason why they keep bringing up the 47%, it just hasn’t been effective for them.
  
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laurenn11
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:40pm
Candy was the worst moderator . The bias was of the charts

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- PeeDeePir8
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:53pm
  Where was the Libertarian candidate? I guess Candy Crowley must have swallowed him.
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:43am
  Two against one in a room full of New Yorkers with questions picked by gallup? How did Romney manage to do so well? I could not believe what I was watching. Candy Crowley has lost the little respect I had for her. Romney will win.
  
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- 2smartobeadem
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:27am
  ohh yes she was . why cant Bill Orielly do one of theses so called debates. Each side should pick the moderator, to see how fair the other one is.
  
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- 1st a Father
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:27am
  Did anyone take note as to how many times Candy tried to give Obama the last word on each topic. Romney had to be forceful so he could defend against Obama’s last word attacks.
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 5:59am
  The Giver
  FORWARD = 180 degree turn then go with determination
  
  Maybe I missunderstood, someone please correct me if I am incorrect
  I thought Crowley picked the questions Gallup picked the participants
  
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- 4kidsandacat
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:12am
  Yeah I guess that’s probably why Mr. Obama felt like he had to step in. The two of them were like a pair of cheerleaders picking on the smart kid, backing each other up on their “points” that weren’t points at all. I almost expected a “you go girl!” from Obama a couple of times.
  
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Diane TX
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:32pm
Obama played dirty at the end when he brought up the 47% video and knowing that Romney wouldn’t have any time to respond.

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elderbat
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:28pm
the obamabot swaggered around with rudeness, evasive non-answers and same old marxist rhetoric and talking points, crowley worse than raddatz. romney amazingly calm under that kind of display. obamabot got pinned to the wall not only on benghazi but fast/furious as well; romney didnt let that get by either. so d@mn tired of the bot’s arrogance! can’t wait to go vote!!!

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I SPY
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:19pm
Obama ran, hid, wanted the debate to end as quickly as possible. Romney schooled him on every topic. Obama looked pale in the face and scared.

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- 2smartobeadem
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:32am
  yes he was scared of the truth, he loves clinton and she was responsible for four deaths why is the questions asked last election so biased against John McCain about all this. Meanwhile Clinton was the problem also, Reagan is what mitt seems to want obama wants clinton and terror aka 9/11 wtf
  
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Sickandtiredofextremists
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:17pm
I thought I was going to laugh myself silly when Romney asked Obama if he knew the holdings he had in his portfolio. I sincerely doubt that many people know “exactly” what all their investments are specifically in……………I certainly don’t! And I think it was hilarious Romney told Obama that he had offshore investments………….which included some in China! I’m fairly certain he’d not have mentioned that if it weren’t absolutely accurate!

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:11pm
The question on lybia was simple — WHO? WHO declined even the basic security required for an embassy? No bulletproof glass- DENIED! No security enhancement – DENIED!

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- 4kidsandacat
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:39am
  Someone needs to ask Obama why he wanted to kill his ambassador. Because that’s how the press spins these questions don’t they?
  
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mdy616
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:07pm
There needed to be some kind of moderator tonight. This woman was not a moderator but an Obama plant. telling the camera at one point that “President Obama is right” Again is was president Romney vs Obama and the “moderator” just like before and you know what? he kicked but again!!

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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:17pm
  It’s amazing how many questions Husain answered by not answering the question, just talked in circles
  
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- blownaway
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 3:33am
  Exactly… more of the same from the “Great One”! How the eff does anyone still buy this snake oil salesmans words?
  
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spinelessdave
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:59pm
Obama getting up like wandering cattle and corralled back to
his seat by Cowgirl Candy

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- 4kidsandacat
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:24am
  Emphasis on the “cow”! My first thought on seeing her was, what kind of candy is that? A marshmallow?
  
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- smokie
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:48pm
  I found his little remarks in the background funny in a very unpresidential way. Anyone who watches Adult Swim will recognize the undertow talking that Obama engaged in and laugh, because it is a technique relegated to an ineffectual, limp character. Think Ignotz and Urr from Aqua Team Hunger Force. He mumbled in the background like a useless, petty kid.
  “Candy? Candy? I’m sitting over here. Looking at the clock.”
  
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noslave
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:59pm
looked like a pro wrestling tag team match,when obama was is trouble he tagged candy for help in interupting romney,or cutting off romney when romney was trying to make a point,obama got 3 more minutes,never answered the libya question,just danced around?romney should have said about jobs SOME MORE OF YOUR SHOVEL READY ONES? also obama favors higher paying jobs?? to get more companies to build in america??more union jobs over non-union like boeing lawsuit to prevent non-union co in south carolina?? and non comitted voters?? my azz they were paid obama plants,gee gun laws brady has her fingerprints all over that one??.they were majoritry democrats,non comitted??yeh, like nobody in the white house., after all this time, still knows nothing about the murders in libya??

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stoptyranny
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:58pm
Big O doesn’t get it. We don’t care what Romney does with HIS money. We care what you’re doing with OUR money.

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:01pm
  Excellent answer.
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:33pm
  If Romney would have that answer ready it would have been a slam dunk!
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:51pm
That’s right Romney get in the Marxist POS face and look him eye to eye and tell him he’s wrong,you’ll have his job come November and the communist pig will be but a very bad memory.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:50pm
Obama is a bore…just like crazy Biteme (Biden). Obama tried to be assertive but he came across like a squeaking mouse.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:49pm
Uh, er, Candy, you were supposed to stop him from doing this…..er….do something Candy……I know I went the the wedding of the last moderator, but you are so homely, no one will marry you, otherwise, er, I would go to your wedding. Come on, I love Candy…..now stop him.

Candy: Um, er….SCREECH. Gov Romney, don’t make me put a hex on you. Now, a question from Joe, from Delaware…….Have you stopped beating your wives? Yes or No……plus he wrote Ha Ha Smirk. Come on Mr President, you werent supposed to submit your own questions.

Obama: Candy, just shut up and do the job we are paying you for. Jeez, equal pay for women, if you acted like a man, we would pay you like one. Er, did I say that outloud…I didn’t say that, Romney hates women, look, he only married one, and Mormons can marry lots.

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- blackyb
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:55pm
  Tripe.
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:47pm
Candy Crowley, TERRIBLE moderator, lost control plenty of times. Let Obama talk all over the map, but scolded Romney for going off point. She let Obama interrupt too many times, didn’t let Romney rebut many Obama accusations, let Obama talk almost 4 minutes more.
I think the audirnce was obviously planted with people with pre-chosen questions. The assault-gun question, the immigration question? Just a bit suspicious.

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:53pm
  Come on, the question “How are you not like Bush?” How did that question make it into the debate, they might as well asked, “Romney, why are you so stupid and Obama is so smart?”
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:49pm
  Yeah DARMOK, I forgot about that one. i could NOT believe it. Bush has not been the president for four years and they are STILL bringing him up to scare people? Plant.
  Why is Romney’s team agreeing to let such progressives moderate these debates? Moderators SHOULD be REQUIRED to be neutral or independents, not lapdogs for the president.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:31am
  Because the other choices were Chris Mathews or Keith Olberman. They chose the wicked witch of the east, that is why Romney had a glass of water handy.
  
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Dorees_Manly_Man
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:44pm
Eleven Questions according to the Fox scorecard…….Zero answers from Oblamer on my scorecard !

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YngHtlndCnsrvtv
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:43pm
It makes me so depressed that at the fork of my future stands Obama and his policies to hold me back. I’m 23 and a college grad and if Obama wins again I feel like my generation will be crushed. I am so desperate to live a part of my adult life outside of a down economy. I believe in America and I believe in the individual. Obama doesn’t believe in me.

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- godlovinmom
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:47pm
  I hear ya!
  
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- bamamontana
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:51pm
  I feel your misery. My wife and I are having our first child in December. I wish voters could see what we see.
  
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- blackyb
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:53pm
  Don’t give a flying flip what Obama believes in. Know who your Creator is and ask his blessings on your life and work. Be true to what is right and God will take care of you. Obama will sap you dry. He is out to destroy this nation. Take the kind of work you can get and keep getting better jobs or until you can develop some type business of your own. Do not wait for opportunity. Make your own opportunities.
  
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- ronin_6
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:55pm
  Neither Obama nor Romney hold the keys to your future. Only you do. They can enable or disable but only you can pull the trigger. No victims allowed here. Move out kid. Make it happen.
  
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- YngHtlndCnsrvtv
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:06pm
  I heard that BlackyB
  
  I am working a few part time jobs waiting for any opening. It’s just that literally I became an adult in an economy that was plummeting. I got a degree in an economy that was toast and under a president that thinks me getting a degree is good for my country, (words out of his mouth to the student). What ****** me off is I got my degree for myself and the fact that he does not understand that people with degrees does not help a country, people being productive and participating in the workforce does. It seemed like textbook USSR the way he depicted my generation. We are not here to serve our country, we are here to serve ourselves and those we choose to serve (family/friends). In doing this we create a better country. WE ARE NOT HERE TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY (minus those called to do so). WE ARE HERE TO SERVE WHAT WE PURSUE. FREEDOM
  
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- elderbat
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:21pm
  my two sons are older than you, obamabot policies have hurt them as well; both do have good jobs but they take it day by day and everything costs them more. romney wins, things will not get better overnight. wish they would but reality says it will be a long haul and most important to hold their feet to the fire regardless of party, and have faith in the Lord and NOT get discouraged and just give up. we are the last hope of freedom in the world, and we have to keep fighting for it. ethics, moral character, faith. I’m 63 and living alone on a very tight budget and some days are rough but if an old bat like me can stand up and fight, I know you can! God bless you with courage.
  
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- smokie
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:55pm
  Looking at your comments, I can see you have it over a lot of other people your age. The realization that your fate is in your hands, instead of your fate being tied to handouts, is one of the most important things to learn, and one thing that elevates above the masses.
  You will make it and succeed because you have decided to do so.
  Obama’s economy is a mess, but we are better than that. Even after the horrendous Carter administration, we woke up to morning in America with Reagan at the helm.
  
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SATX 19
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:43pm
At work, so I could only catch part of the debate on the radio. MAN, did Obama pull a Biden with the constant interrupting!!! Plus, Canddy interrupting Romney was so annoying. Then she cuts him off and let’s O start again. And when Romney did screw up with Obama saying it was a terror attack, Candy starts to DEFEND the prez. What a great moderator. Libs will cream themselves for how “aggressive” Barak was, but from what I heard Romney answered the questions with facts and O just uummed and uuuhhhed his way around.

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Contessa
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:43pm
Glad he could play moderator yet was unable to answer a direct question three times in a row. I am taking his lack of answer on gas being $4.00 a gallon as ‘go screw yourselves, America’.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:42pm
Every time Romney would commit to his position and correct obama’s lie- obama would interrupt him and say it’s not true again. When obama lied about calling the ambassador assassination a terrorist act from the rose garden the very day after, Romney asked him if that was what he had just said and obama said ‘move along please’ — This should be the focus of the entire debate- obama was exactly the same as always otherwise.. Obama lied- out ambassador died!

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Dorees_Manly_Man
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:42pm
Eleven questions……..no answers from Oblamer. Go Romney !!!

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:42pm
I have to give this one to Romney – Obama’s true communist colors are revealed.

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JIHURST
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:39pm
Incredible….he called in Candy to save him from the difficult questions a few times haha.

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Baja
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:38pm
Obama Haiku:
Mouth opens,
**** falls out

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- SATX 19
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:46pm
  Haiku rules 5-7-5:
  Barak opens mouth
  Malarkey falls from pie hole
  Romney wins in Nov
  
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- ronin_6
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:58pm
  @Satx19
  Well done.
  Anata wa jozu des.
  
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Gary_K
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:36pm
he has been playing president for 3 1/2 + years.

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:44pm
  Then he has been a lousy actor, time to recast. Just like in Bewitched, time to change D#cks.
  
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