Obama Campaign says 'Don't expect zingers'

[WI_DEM]

Obama Campaign Says Don't Expect Zingers
President Obama's re-election campaign said the president "likely won't be flinging barbs during this week's presidential debate," CNN reports.

Said spokeswoman Jen Psaki: "If you're expecting that, that's probably not what he's going to deliver."

Psaki was referring to reports that Mitt Romney was "working on zingers" and memorizing short attack lines to fire off at the president during Wednesday's debate in Denver.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/30/obama_campaign_says_dont_expect_zingers.html

[darkangel218]

1. The word zinger bothers me

I don't know why

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Romney is a fool who can't string two words together

so like bush they have to rehearse and be wired up to someone who has some knowledge.

[XemaSab]

6. It bugs me that what should be a thoughtful discussion of policy

becomes a game of the dozens.

"Yo momma so stupid that she got fi'ed from the M&M plant for throwing out all the W's."

"Well yo momma so fat she got baptized at Sea World."

"O snap!"

[darkangel218]

9. omg!!!

Hahahahahahaha!!

I wasn't reffering to the meaning ofvthe word though, just the way it sounds. It kind of zings on my brain lol :p

[Turbineguy]

3. Obama has to appeal to a smarter

audience.

[99th_Monkey]

8. And fortunately the audience is getting smarter

I read that somewhere recently, that US voters aren't as dumb
as the GOP assumes they are.

[qwlauren35]

11. I would have thought the opposite.

Many of the smarter people, who aren't rich, are already voting for Obama. The ones who aren't voting for him are "gamblers" who want to believe that Mitt can do better. Oh, and folks who oppose abortion and same-sex marriage. It's not that they aren't smart. They are religious conservatives and those are deal-breakers for them.

I would love to see some breakdown of what the undecideds will be basing their ultimate decision on.

[Angry Dragon]

4. When you have facts you do not need zingers

[bigdarryl]

5. Why are BOTH campaigns telegraphing what there going to do

I never heard of other candidates in the past Presidential elections telling the media what to expect in there debates.

[BlueStreak]

7. "Conditioning the battlefield"

I don't know if Romney serious plans to make this a Zinger-fest. That could have been a diversionary tactic to cause Obama to waste preparation time on heckler management techniques.

Obama's response is a shot across the bow to let Romney know there is a serious risk in going with zingers. If Obama can frame this as a very serious moment in American history requiring the clear and honest thinking of our best minds, Romney risks coming across as juvenile and not sufficiently serious for the moment.

[pnwmom]

10. Good. He shouldn't lower himself to Romney's level. And he should keep

using every opportunity to make the debate a comparison of his policies vs. Romney's -- even though Romney wants it just to be all focused on Obama and his "failures."