I believe the reason most liberals were upset about last night's

[JRLeft]

performance, was because he could have ended Romney's political career last night.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Maybe it's a mini-series,

and the KO comes in the third episode.

[hrmjustin]

2. that is exactly why i am angry.

[MrSlayer]

3. I'm pissed because he could have ended his own.

As a liberal I'm not thrilled with the President as it is but I would be furious at him if he lets this jamoke push him around again and loses the election because of it.

[Vietnameravet]

4. You nailed it!

although some folks just cant take criticism..

[treestar]

9. Just because you are criticizing it doesn't make you king

Does not mean it is always valid.

If I criticized you here, you'd alert, wouldn't you? Or would you just "take" it?

Too often the critic thinks they are right merely because they are being negative.

[Hoyt]

5. Yeah, we were hoping to remove the last remaining chance for Rmoney.

Gonna take some more work, time, and voting to get it done. Probably good to remember it ain't over yet.

[Tx4obama]

6. And if Obama had knocked out Romney then the GOP big money folks would be ....

putting all their money on the Republican down ballot races. Which is NOT a good thing for us.

Now they can continue wasting most of their money on Romney.

[TroyD]

13. But doesn't Obama now have to spend more money against Mitt?

He now needs to cut more attack ads and expose more debate lies.

Money that could have been better spent on GOTV in November?

[kimbutgar]

7. President was off because he was tired from running the country

And running for re-election. I could not imagine rarely having down time. The guy is doing something everyday. Rmoney takes weekends off at one of his vacation homes. No wonder he wasn't on his game for the debate. I could never walk in President Obama's shoes even for one day.

[treestar]

8. An absurd and ridiculous expectation

There is no way this is over before Nov 6. No way.

Right wingers are stubborn. They will stand behind their candidate no matter what. Of course if we did that, it would help. But even so, it's is not over until the ballots are counted.

[jimlup]

10. I think we have yet to know the full end to this story

For some of us it wasn't really such a huge surprise. A few points perhaps but all and all when we saw the debate start to unfold we realized that Obama was playing "prevent" and this is a strategy that he often goes to actually. He used it at several points in the McCain debate series. It worked better then but mark my words - this story's ending has not yet been written.

[mshasta]

11. Mr Obama ...slow,

painful revenge is sweeter...let it bleed slowly.....very slowly

[NCLefty]

12. Insightful.