I would use the word "assertive"..as a strang, take charge successful businessman would do.
Now picture how the Arabs will be taken "aback" by an strong assertive President named Romney. The Arabs only pay attention to strength in leadership.

Looking at Ramussen this AM, Obama could spend the next debate in a fetal position and get over 40% of the vote.

All these excuses why Obama bombed add up to the fact that Obama isn't good at thinking on his feet. What a joke to say he wanted to answer the questions that were asked! He didn't answer them, to begin with, but politicians are noted for not answering questions, instead turning them around to suit their agenda. Obama could have done anything with the questions, but didn't. And enough for "Romney lied." What B.S.

Hey Axe, your boy choked!

should read STRONG take charge leader..sorry more coffee needed.

If the man hasn't got the wit to answer Mitt Romney, how can he handle world leaders? He's hopeless, hapless. Go home to Hawaii.

Romney = alpha male
Obama = beta male

/what Axelrod meant to say

What farmwife said. Carry on.

The only effect Romney had on the Man Child was when he used his "I've raised five sons" line, and that is what caused the meltdown. 0bama is not as smart as some would like us to believe, but he is smart enough to know that Romney called him a child and a LIAR! To the Narcissist in Chief that was just too much to bear. It is probably the first time in his life anyone ever spoke the truth to him.

It is time to grow up. For God's sake stop it as it is quite unbecoming. If the other candidate is lying through his teeth and you let him get away with it then you are too stupid to be elected. Has this joker ever been held accountable for anything???? This is just crap talk because you don't have any answers for your first term. I can't wait for the foreign policy debate.

#7 - You're being way to kind to obama. No way he's male or beta. He's not a d-beta, that's for sure.

Barry was afraid Mitt was going to strap him to the roof of his car and take him for a ride.

O simply did not have the guts to lie to Romney's face.

He's so good at backstabbing when the person is not there to answer back.

How would you like to get in a hot tub with Axe? Lots of oil and slime would quickly form on the surface. Ugh!

#6 is thinking along the same line I am: How does this look to other countries? Our supposed president can't answer a question without going off on irrelevant tangents and looks totally incompetent. Four more years of this? If he wins, we're doomed.

Fellow Ldotters, please get out and help the campaign. If you live in a state that is not a swing state, there are ways you can make calls to help in the swing states. If you live in a swing state, get out there and talk to your acquaintances, volunteer with the campaigns - for senate too.

If you are unable to do these things, write a check. We've got to win this thing. Thanks.

The "taken aback by brazenness" excuse has at least two intrinsic problems. (1) It implies that president seriously underestimated his opponent, which is certainly nothing of which to be proud. (2) More significantly, it seems to contradict itself, for if the much referred "lies" were all that obvious and abundant, it should have been that much easier to spot and refute them in the debate. To be simply stunned into submissive silence by the aggressive mendacity of a debate opponent may signify to some people a superior moral and intellectual vantage a la Woodrow Wilson's (in)famous remark that there is such a thing as a nation being too proud to fight. The problem is that such sancta simplicitas, even -indeed especially- if authentic, is not what the office of president of the United States demands.

It is mere nonsense of course, as anyone who has beheld the demagoguery of Obama on the stump in front of friendly audiences knows quite well. Obama has no problem denouncing, defaming and debating opponents - when they are not present to contradict him. Obama's problem is by no means that he is too ethical and intellectual to win a debate with the Father of Lies, the devil incarnate in the form of Mitt Romney. Obama's problem is that he is neither intelligent nor informed enough to hold his own with a capable opponent who does not agree with him about everything.

I would bet that everyone here has noticed how much of a tough guy Obama is when his opponent is not in the room.

Obama is a punk... not a black punk or a white punk... just a plain old punk.

He fights by making faces after the debate is over.

As #9 said: The only effect Romney had on the Man Child was when he used his "I've raised five sons" line, and that is what caused the meltdown.

Have you noticed that the 'media' has not made that aspect of the debate a talking point? That SHOULD be one of the MAIN talking points of the debate!!

Did Axe say Mitt was uppity???

“I didn’t give ‘em hell, I gave ‘em the truth and they thought it was hell.”

Harry S. Truman

Axelrod challenges Arafat and Waxman for the ugliest, most repugnant individual in world history.

Is your boy actually a little girl, Dave?

Obama looked like a little boy.

I'm picturing Chris Christie on the stage debating the Messiah. Now that would probably be "brazen" but oh so much fun.

brazen = bold, without shame.

OK. So?

They underestimated his strength of character, his intelligence, his knowledge of their guy's office, his ability to articulate, his sheer gentlemanly power.

That night Obie was a very small bump in the road.

And once again, Obama can't speak for himself -- he has to have his puppet master do it for him. Yawn.

So, by this logic, if Putin or any other leader is "brazen" with BO, it is only to be expected that they will then get everything they want.

This explains about the kneeling in front of other leaders and the laughingstock that America is becoming in the world.

Meanwhile BO sits back and sucks in all the Choomsmoke he can with the windows closed tightly.

The town hall debate will make me sick. He will be all in his "Well folks" mode. Every time he uses the word folks, it makes me feel ill. It is so fake.

Axelrod looks like a guy who sells sex toys.

I imaging German Lt. Gen Heinrich F. von Lṻttwitz was taken aback by the brazenness of Brig. Gen Anthony McAuliffe at Bastogne.

Romney's reaction to Obama's demands that America surrender to the progressives' "fundamental transformation" to socialism could be paraphrased as the same as McAuliffe's -- "NUTS"

How dare Romney not agree with Obama's campaign ads.

What this shows is that the dems will say anything to win. The only "brazen" thing that Romney did is refuse to accept BO's distortions as "truth". It was rather pathetic.

BO said Romney was for $5 trillion in tax breaks and Romney said it was NOT true. He also said that his guiding principle was that the amount of money paid by the wealthy would not decrease. That's a pretty straight forward declaration. BO repeated the lie. Romney corrected him. I think it happened 4 or 5 times. Romney refused to let BO lie. I guess that is pretty brazen.

The dems and the media are trying to create a theme that Romney some how cheated, first with the handkerchief nonsense and now that Romney was somehow excessively aggressive. The people that saw the debate KNOW what Romney was really like . He listened to what BO said and responded to it. He corrected BO's lies. Since most of what BO says is lies, Romney was doing a lot of correction. I'm sure it didn't sit well with the narcissistic BO.

I loved the young men who lie story. POW!

Axlegrease--they don't come any slimier than this pig.

'taken aback' by the brazenness' of
Romney's debate performance?

Axelbox seems to have a flair for redundant sayings. When he speaks of Obama being 'taken aback,' I would suggest that it is a rather extravagant use of the term.

Still, we have come to expect such deceptive reasoning from duplicitous communists.

Axelbox mover over, it is time for your girlie man to head back to the Windy City.

boy, where to begin. So he hasn't noted any brazenness anywhere else he's been the last four years? He's toured the world, and I won't mention anybody in particular, but he thinks Mitt was more brazen than all of them? He is having a fit of vapors over nasty Mitt Romney after everyone he has supposedly sized up in our name? Lordy.