Presidential Debate 2012 social media blathering on the Internets might be nice but so many d-bags chattering for themselves are neither insightful nor important enough to command attention.
Instead . . .
TKC REACHED OUT TO KANSAS CITY POWER BROKERS WHO SHAPE OUR COWTOWN DEMOCRACY AND ASKED WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF LAST NIGHT'S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE!!!
The answers were insightful and reveal a deeper understanding of politics and the impact of this election on our local lives than mostly unfunny tweets.
We asked a lot of people for their opinion. We are pleasantly surprised that Jeff Roe was out enjoying a ball game last night instead of watching TV . . .
However . . .
TAKE A LOOK AT HOW A FEW MEMBERS OF KANSAS CITY'S POLITICAL ELITE VIEWED THE DEBATE LAST NIGHT AND ENJOY THEIR MONEY QUOTES!!!
Check it:
Kansas City political consultant and power broker Steve Glorioso noted:
"President Obama clearly played it safe. Romney was more aggressive, but did not connect with average voters."
More . . .
"President Obama had a great closing statement. Romney had a laundry list rather than a vision."
From the opposite end of the political spectrum . . .
The Queen of Kansas City Conservative Radio Darla Jaye said:
"Who'd have thought that @barackobama would come across as cold and out of touch? I thought @mittromney was supposed 2 do that."
Now we didn't talk to this opinion maker but he is our FB friend . . .
Far right writer and Conservative scholar Jack Cashill noted:
"I have seen every presidential debate since I was a precocious pre-teen for JFK in 1960. Romney's may have been the best presentation I have ever seen."
But this is TKC and we NEED an ALTERNATIVE look at TV talking heads . . .
Kansas City Liberty Activist Tracy Ward tells us . . .
"For those watching the debate, enjoy the drinking games while watching a statist debate a statist. Is there really a winner in that type of debate?"
A couple of off-the-record comments are always an important part of the TKC discourse . . .
Here's the word from Kansas City's most prominent Northland power broker:
"Romney is the clear winner. President Obama stumbled and stammered all night. A major gaffe shocked the audience. His closing statement was a clumsy incoherent mess. He attacked Romney's ideas and was unable to support his own. Romney was unflappable, and he delivered on mark. Defended his ideas clearly and easily explained difficult subjects. Called Obama out on obfuscating. Simply put, President Obama looked looked out of his league."
Finally, we needed a word from Kansas City's biz community . . .
Read this from a Kansas City biz dude you probably know who dabbles in politics and has inspired more than a few TKC posts. He tells us . . .
"President Obama let Romney control the entire debate. He rambled, came off weak and no matter how Dems spin it, this performance will hurt him."
Let's not forget a KC media power player . . .
Or Twitter friend Kris Ketz authors the definitive Kansas City Twitter journalism tweet that expresses more than a bit of angst that in this day and age re: A dinosaur is running the debate.
And so . . .
A GREAT MANY THANKS TO THESE KANSAS CITY POWER BROKERS FOR SHARING THEIR OPINION AND MAKING THE DEBATE A LITTLE EASIER TO COMPREHEND FOR TKC!!!
Real talk . . . TKC is much more interested in Jordan Carver hotness than whoever is serving the same cup of soup after the election . . .
However, here are some 1st Presidential Debate 2012 links that are far more important than what makes it to the doorsteps of senior citizens in dead tree form sometime before noon.
Check it . . .
The New York Times: An Unhelpful Debate
CS Monitor: Mitt Romney scores points in presidential debate, but will it help him?
NPR provides a sleep-aid as usual - Transcript: First Obama-Romney Presidential Debate
CBS News - Debate analysis: Romney lands blows against cautious Obama
Washington Post - Analysis: In first presidential debate, Romney is aggressor, Obama is careful in pushing back
E!: 2012 Presidential Debate: Michelle Obama and Ann Romney Hug It Out
LA Times: Presidential debate: A lackluster Obama, a revived Romney
New York Daily News: Presidential debate: Romney delivers unexpectedly strong performance while President Obama lacks feistiness he displayed on campaign trail
AP - FACT CHECK: Presidential debate missteps
ABC News: The Presidential Debate’s Biggest Loser: Big Bird
And of course . . .
The Internets has the biggest and most important debate analysis of the past 24 hours . . .
Here's what Mitt & Barack would look like if they switched haircuts . . . Which is really the final "fig leaf" when it comes to how people vote . . .
More later . . .
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ReplyDeleteNo surprises. Romney has had months of preparation with all the GOP debates and Obama, as usual, was out of his element speaking off the cuff. I like the haircut photo. These guys really are twin sons of different mothers.
ReplyDeleteObama will rope-a-dope this clown. He is a natural.
ReplyDeleteThese are the "power brokers" that you go to for their views?
ReplyDeleteThis is all tongue-in-cheek, right?
Where is Oprah Winfrey?
ReplyDeleteThe haircut switch is awesome!!! Actually makes Obama look slightly presidential.
ReplyDeleteThe debates were a real snoozer. Obama is really going to have to give it more than his lazy best if he wants to win. Doesn't matter. I've already cast my vote for Romney.
ReplyDeleteRomney won on style and delivery for sure. But it's easy to do that when you just make shit up as you go. Romney last night denied that he believed in any of Romney's positions. I think Obama was confused, as suddenly he was debating a Democrat.
ReplyDeleteReminds of the Ali - Foreman fight. The "ropadope" strategy. Ali laying on the ropes being beat up almost the entire fight then came off the ropes for a devasting knock out. You saw the start of this last night.
ReplyDeleteHa Ha Ha
ReplyDeleteThe only winner last night was Jeremy Lafever. he proved once again why he is Missouri's most popular and inspiring politician. Governor LaFever? I sure like the sound of that.
ReplyDeleteNext debate Obama will not only get his ass kicked again, it will be handed back to him on a paper plate.
ReplyDeleteI saw an internal Dem poll recently, and LaFever has better name recognition than almost any politician in the state. He is beat out only by Nixon, McCaskill, and Koster. LaFever was number 4, and his favorability rating is 73%. The voters recognize that LaFever has the answers. He will fight for us! He will win for us!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like everyone saw what they wanted to see in the debate.
ReplyDeleteRomney still needs to get specific. The last time we elected someone with a "secret plan" we wound up with Nixon, and that didn't work out too well.
8:47 - I agree that LaFever has a very promising political career ahead of him, but give him a few years in office before urging him to run statewide. Let his rising star rise. He was hugely successful in the business world before running for office. He then demolished his opponents in the primary for the state rep seat.
ReplyDeleteLobbyists and other state legislators will tell you privately that LeFever will be the go-to guy to get things done in Jeff City. He may not presently hold a leadership position, but if you want a piece of legislation passed, you have to go through LaFever.
As usual, Darla you completely mis-read events and people's views of them.
ReplyDeleteGo ahead and do what KMBZ does so often, which is delete real user criticism in it's Facebook pages...for whatever excuses.
So just enjoy the Facebook viewer agreements, if not debate disagreements of your views!
You have simply made KMBZ's DISCUSSion of ISSUES completely unomportant.
Too bad, you're discussion room COULD have been a great dialogue of political debate, but you must think that's not good for your corporate interest! So you blow away people who disagree with you and your on-air views!
These debates are really about the undecided and independents comprising about 7 percent of the vote. Both candidates looked nice and shellacked for the cameras, but this thing was really more like a homecoming queen contest. Does anyone really have a clear understanding of what either candidate's agenda is? I mean we have some experience with Obama, but it seems to me the assumption is that people are either extremely shallow and incapable of analyzing much data with any degree of clarity or neither candidate gets that the man elected president will be handling some of the most critical issues to come along in the past 30 years. Other than Clair and Tod this Presidential Election seems to provide some of the worst choices in decades.
ReplyDeleteHow does a corperate raider get his millions, by selling "himself?" and his product. He (R) needed the open time to press the line, obama bad for you. But i didn't hear promises, or or plans, or such needed items, cut this cut that, make all pay more for bad stuff like water, air and food.
ReplyDeleteJust for the record so we can see it in one list, here are the "power brokers" who made "the debate a little easier to comprehend for TKC":
ReplyDeleteSteve Glorioso
Darla Jaye
Jack Cashill
Tracy Ward
"Kanas City's Most Prominent Northland Power Broker"
"A Kansas City Biz Dude"
Kris Ketz
And of course, Jeff Roe was MIA at the ball game.
Romney looks like Phil LeVota there!
ReplyDeleteSteve Glorioso
ReplyDeleteDarla Jaye
Jack Cashill
Tracy Ward
"Kanas City's Most Prominent Northland Power Broker"
"A Kansas City Biz Dude"
Kris Ketz
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone including the above has one.
Some assholes stink worse than others.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the picture of Glorioso. I always wondered what my asshole looked like.
ReplyDeleteHairy, ugly, large orifice.
ReplyDeleteQuote of the night:
ReplyDeleteIn CNN’s wrap-up of its debate James Carville, a campaign adviser to former President Bill Clinton, gave Obama’s campaign high marks but added
“Let’s be real, President Obama came in, he wanted to have a conversation. Mitt Romney came in with a chainsaw. He’s trying to talk to a chainsaw.”
Depending on one's partisan views one guy one and the other lost (take your pick which one it is). There were some strategic moves being made throughout the debate that unfortunately made for a boring debate. Case in point was Obama trying to smoke out details from Romney. In turn Romney hitting him repe.atedly on the $700+ billion taken from Medicare. The dweeb debate-types will declare this one or that one the winner; who cares? It's what political messages come out from the debate. Yawn...
ReplyDeleteThat's "won" not "one". Oops.
ReplyDeleteBill O'Riley called it right, the exposition. If this was a debate, then Hearne will be on the pole for next year's Indy 500 in his Fiat.
ReplyDeletecue The Rolling Stones
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio
Wonder how many buck dancin', shoe shinin', minstrels are still gunna vote for Obamanation??
ReplyDeleteWonder how many inbred, willfully ignorant bigots are still going to vote for Rmoney.
ReplyDeleteMe!
ReplyDeleteAn America without Big Bird is an America not worth paying taxes for.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather get rid of the Marines!
Glorioso thought Obama had a great close? The Spitter is either on the payroll or truly lost it.
ReplyDeleteWhere are Maya Angelou, Colin Powell, and Oprah Winfrey when you need them? ha ha
ReplyDeleteIs the "Biz Dude" Mr. Peanut?!
ReplyDelete2:29, of course you would...now go back into the closet and continue to butt fuck your nigger boyfriend.
ReplyDeletePolitical consultants are dangerous because they actually believe their own lies and bullshit. Which they then sell to the politicians they work for.
ReplyDeleteAnyone been to any Tracy Ward Bukkake Paries recently?
ReplyDeleteAs if we would care what Steve Whore-ioso says.
ReplyDeleteThe empty chair showed up last night.
ReplyDelete