President Romney.

Obama was condescending, prideful and petulant.

BO's fixed, hateful glare was a pathetic ploy, in a manner reminiscent of Loco Joe B.
Coached or not, these theatrics looked ridiculous, like Urkel Geller trying to Bend MR's Old Glory lapel pin-- with the power of his eye makeup!!!
BO looked a totally mental cheerleader, giving her long=lost Quarterback the Evil Eye.

Obama's 'likability' is yet another myth that has bit the dust. He was rude, arrogant and childish.

With that stare, I believe Obama was channeling Mike Tyson. Intimidation by stare doesn't work if you're a skinny, jug-eared, wannabe.

The Vulcan mind meld doesn't work if you're half Romulan. It does if you're Romneyan.

You had to wonder how Romney didn't just bust out laughing at Obama and the evil eye tactic he used, as if just staring at Romney would rattle him. How lame.

Nice eye makeup though.... I can see how his Hollywood and other groupies would love it..... they are that shallow too. It's all about the style.... while the Middle East burns, Israel faces hourly threats, an U.S. Ambassador is dead while he diddled here in Vegas, and Afghan turncoats are murdering our unarmed soldiers.

Feh. Please, God, make this election lawyer-proof.....

OMG -- can obama get anymore childish?

I could hardly watch his blah/blah/blah.

President Romney acted more presidential than the president.

LZK

Romney was NOT impressed with obamas continous stare. He's out of his league when faced with someone that's not one of his highly paid yes-men.

That teenage smartass remark about 'we have aircraft carriers that planes can land on' may have been cute to his ignorant base, but undecided adults must have cringed. Save that crap for street rallies when 'community organizing.'

What a jerk.

My impression during much of the debate was that Obama was emulating Biden with his hectoring, mugging and dopey explanations. Surely not only Romney, but every american listener knew already what aircraft carriers and submarines are.

Romney correctly ignored the distracting noise of Obama's sophomoric silliness, just like Ryan carried on through Biden's histrionics.

No doubt which one you would want picking up the phone at three AM.

Obama may look as if he "won" because of his lies and spin.
1- He was wrong about Romny's comments about bailing out the auto industry.
2- Submarines and aircraft carriers are in fact ships and are included in the naval fleet count. Marines have bayonets.
3- He ISan apologist. We do not have attention spans of flees as Obama believes. We remember.
4-Obama was petty, snarky, condescending and rude. He looked small in both stature and character against the Governor.

If one watched the gathering on the stage immediately after the finish, one would have seen another stark contrast. Someone with a family and someone without. Strong families made this country strong, not strong, uncompromising will. This was not lost of yours truly, and doubtless not lost on others.

Both men have beautiful families. Romney has better ideas.

Anybody get an "I/Me" count on President Personal Pronoun when he substituted himself for the country?

Woulda, coulda, shoulda, comeback comment: "Well Mr. President if you debate with our allies or even our enemies with the same contempt and disrepect you have offered to me then no wonder our country is in such as a terrible bad light abroad"

I noticed the same thing, #12. However, my wife pointed out to me that perhaps the Obamas' kids would have been in bed.

We can compare the Obama kids to the Romney kids and grandchildren but who really cares which is a more "beautiful family"? Bottom line is that unlike Mitt and Ann Romney, Obama did not grow up in a stable family environment - and it sorely shows.

We have a retailer here whose motto is "perception is everything" and I was appalled with an "unaffiliated" Florida group with Frank Luntz on Fox after the debate. They felt, almost to a man or woman, that Obama won the foreign policy part of the debate. This is how Obama won to begin with: he talks a good show (but never follows through....ditto with businessmen, which has been their complaint--he uses them for window dressing.) And the group bought it, I think, because he sounded good AND because they were clueless. One woman, daughter of an Israeli, heard for the FIRST time that Obama had skipped Israel on his tour and obviously has no idea of how Obama has treated Netanyahu and Israel in the last months. And she is the daughter of an Israeli!!!!!! With Obama, it is always who do you believe: me or your lying eyes. Except this group was blind as well.

Was it Chris Wallace who said that a visitor from outer space would have drawn the conclusion that Mitt was the president and Fauxbama the challenger?

Whoever said it was right.

I know why Romney went light on Benghazi--I am sure the expensive ads are already in the can saying Romney wants WAR! But I hope that Mitt will come out with multi ads in the next two weeks explaining the GM structured settlement, the armed forces NOT WANTING the cuts (the Obama lies were thick on the ground) and the abject failure to protect four decent Americans in Benghazi simply because OBAMA needed a foreign policy appearance of strength and that AlQueda was gone. I hope surrogates are out there in Ohio and Florida stressing these issues. (And I am still appalled that some voters last night seemed to think giving an o.k. on BenLaden and letting the Seals do all the work was bravery, or meant anything about his Presidency.)

I honestly tried to watch. I did note the eerie stare Obama was giving Romney. I couldn't figure out who he was trying to be. Then it dawned on me - remember Snoopy peering off the dog house pretending to be a vulture? Anyway, I guess I'll sound less than intelligent but my eyes glazed over. I made it to about the 30 minute mark then turned the channel. That foreign policy stuff was way over my head other than I know Obama gave $500 million to the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt. DId Romney get that in?

bHo is as likable as he is competent.

He wants you to call him "Angry Black Man" so he can dust off the tired race card.

Let's just call him the Former President.

The Won gave America the Evil Eye.
Election Day will return the favor.

Obama trying to tell us that the military does NOT want the big budget is baloney. The Pentagon always has various programs in the pipeline. When the C-i-C says that budgets will be cut, they salute.

That is why it is up to Congress to fund needed program.

0bama proved he doesn't belong in the job of President. In other words the Narcissist-in-Chief lost last night.

As for Obama, I personly liked the killer stare. Isn't that what they do in prison?

In a 4 day period Islamists stormed US embassies in Egypt and Libya, killer the ambassador to Libya and 4 other Americans, then assaulted a NATO air base in Afghanistan and destroyed 8 Harrier Jump Jets on the ground and killed the American commander. It is President Obama who is incompetent and incapable of protecting the American people.

Notice Romney was not affected at all by obit's stare, and it demonstrated who is the better man, president, human of the two. No contest.

Finally! The Presidential debates for this election cycle have run their course. The so-called Commission on Presidential Debates now has four whole years to come to their senses and do away with the utterly unnecessary impediment to each debate, the moderator.

Those chosen for the role of moderator invariably become an issue unto themselves. Who are they? Are they biased? What are their inadequately hidden, therefore obvious, agendas? Let’s do away with this recurring controversy once and for all.

Two adults, competing on national television for the highest office in the land, should be turned loose in order that we voters have the opportunity to closely observe how they handle themselves under pressure with no moderator to get in the way. All that would be needed is an equal-timekeeper to insure fairness.

We have four years to work out the details. It might take four minutes.

In the last 2 debates the O showed he isn't so cool after all. Petulant and insolent. The likability factor had to take a hit.

Also showed they know they are losing or this type of show wasn't neccessary

I am with an above poster - I muted most of the obama comments - gave that up and left. Mitt was great and bammy looked like a snotty teenager about to have a tantrum. Also, still amazed that there are 16 candidates for president. Too pathetic.

In my book, Romney hit the perfect strategic tone to speak to the undecideds, especially those 2008 Obama voters who have been disenchanted with Obama but afraid of Romney. He should have appealed to the libertarians.

There was a frequent poster whom I enjoyed reading very much until he became belligerent and bigoted about Romney during the primary. (He may have been blocked....?) I wonder if he has softened his attitude at all since Romney has been performing so well.

"Unaffiliated" at this point means democrats who are too embarrassed to admit it, #18. Along with the "undecided's, they're mostly all liberals looking frantically for some way to endure the stench long enough to vote...