If Barack Obama
thought he won the last debate, he must have been smoking weed...
When President Barack Obama stepped
off the stage in Denver last week the 60 million Americans watching the
debate against Mitt Romney already knew it had been a disaster for him.
But what nobody knew, until now, was that Obama believed he had actually won.
In
an extraordinary insight into the events leading up to the 90 minute
showdown which changed the face of the election, a Democrat close to the
Obama campaign today reveals that the President also did
not take his debate preparation seriously, ignored the advice of senior
aides and ignored one-liners that had been prepared to wound Romney.
The Democrat said that Obama's inner
circle was dismayed at the 'disaster' and that he believed the central
problem was that the President was so disdainful of Romney that he
didn't believe he needed to engage with him.
'President
Obama made it clear he wanted to be doing anything else - anything -
but debate prep,' the Democrat said. 'He kept breaking off whenever he
got the opportunity and never really focused on the event.
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