“Well, we’ve gone through a tough four years.” That line from Tuesday night’s presidential debate wasn’t particularly surprising. It was, after all, exactly what one would expect Mitt Romney to say about President Obama’s tenure in office. What was surprising was that it wasn’t Romney who uttered those words. It was Obama.
There was no love lost in this debate, which was a feisty, prickly affair. Mitt Romney certainly had his moments, but at times he seemed perhaps a bit too eager to try to coax people to vote for him, rather than laying out his case with the confidence that he showed in the first debate and assuming that, by doing so, people would vote for him. Maybe after a strong fortnight in the wake of that debate, he was a touch too anxious to close the deal.
