last Wednesday, the President pissed me off

[frazzled]

48. Actually, you're pissing me off, for real

Get over it. Your hand-wringing and Monday-morning quarterbacking (actually, it's way past Monday morning and time to STOP) is doing nothing but reinforcing the narrative and helping the other side.

Look at what the Republicans do. Last week we were laughing at them for saying Romney was going to win this election, win Pennsylvania ... in the face of mortifyingly bad polls. Their base was claiming the polls were all "skewed." Well, guess what, this kind of audacious chutzpah works.

Instead of stepping back and saying, hey, the President really got some of his points out while Romney, by reversing all his positions, clearly cannot be trusted, you keep repeating the (false) meme about Obama's "failure." No, he was not a failure. He was not worse than George W. Bush ever was in a debate, not by a long shot.

If he'd been "angry" the narrative would have been that Romney won because Obama got angry, or had to spend the whole time defending himself. You are not a political strategist nor a debate coach. You are just an armchair observer, like the rest of us.

Our job should be to have our candidate's back, not to criticize him. We should be minimizing the importance of a debate, finding the things he did well, predicting ultimate success—in short, praising him in the face of any evidence to the contrary, even. The last thing we should be doing is accepting the idea that he failed and giving "advice."