Let’s see, we’ve heard it was because of the Denver’s altitude, that he was distracted because of some looming campaign finance scandal, he had the flu, he was lost without his teleprompter, it was his anniversary, even that Romney was somehow able to cheat. All potential reasons dreamt up in the attempt to explain Barry’s piss-poor debate performance. And so we have continued to watch as the Barry campaign has been reeling since losing the first presidential debate of this election cycle in front of 67 million viewers. They've tried, and thus far failed, to craft any narrative that seemed plausible enough to explain away the debacle in Denver. Barry Senior Advisor, the very sleazy, David Plouffe, who ran the President's successful 2008 campaign, has even gone so far as to try to sweep the whole thing away by simply accusing Gov. Romney of lying. So far no excuse has managed to catch on, even with the mainstream pro-Barry media.
So now we have the Barry Administration floating yet another excuse: that the campaign, particularly Romney stand-in John Kerry-Heinz, who I believe spent a very brief, yet very personally rewarding time in Vietnam, did not channel Gov. Romney’s aggression enough. Here’s how it played out on CBS's "This Morning":
Norah O'Donnell:
"Some Democrats say [Obama's] campaign needs a wake-up call. Bill Plante is here with that part of the story. Bill, you've been talking to your sources; what are they saying?
Correspondent Bill Plante:
"Well Norah, they're simply upset and really outraged. They blame the President's team, first of all, for not preparing him to meet the challenge of an aggressive Mitt Romney. They say that nobody in the room challenged him, including the guy that he was debating with, John Kerry, because, as they say, he wants to be Secretary of State so he's not going to get in the President's face. And Presidents are used to deference; they're not used to people challenging them like that. So they think that the debate prep was terrible, but they also fault the President himself for not understanding that Romney was going to be more aggressive."
I thinks it’s pretty obvious even to the many Barry cheerleaders that the 2012 Barry campaign continues to prove to be a stark contrast from their 2008 effort. In 2008, then Senator Barry used youthful ebullience, soaring rhetoric, and a precise campaign infrastructure to capture the hearts and minds of the American people. In 2012, Barry seems increasingly lethargic and quick to make excuses for missteps on the campaign trail. What once was "Hope and Change" is now "Mope and Blame," and as we have seen so many times before, no one is immune from being thrown under the proverbial bus. This time it's John Kerry-Heinz’s turn. No offense, but I think even I could have seen that one coming, after all it’s really all that they have left. I mean it can’t be Barry’s fault, because nothing can be Barry’s fault. There has to be a built-in scapegoat option into everything that Barry does, even, evidently, a bad debate performance.
This should really come as a big surprise. It’s the same kind of juvenile behavior that we’ve seen any number of times from Barry going back to before he was even elected. Whether we’re talking about the economy, the price of gas or the continuing high rate of unemployment, despite the latest bogus jobs numbers, nothing is to be considered as being Barry’s fault. It’s Bush’s fault, the House Republican’s fault, the Tea Party’s fault, it everybody else’s fault, just not Barry’s fault. Look, what I think is, is that Barry thought, and presumably still thinks, that he’s got this whole thing all wrapped up. He remains confident in his ability to hoodwink the American people just long enough to allow him to win in November. He thinks that all he has to do is to just go out and repeatedly accuse Romney of lying and that will be enough for him to win. But I think that even he would have to admit that with Romney’s performance that might now be a little harder for him to accomplish.
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