and bernard whitman who is a her to of "52 reasons to vote for obama." i expect the wednesday night debate performance is not on the list in your book but it' it's interesting to hear the list of reasons. saying he didn't have time to prepare. why not move on it wasn't a great night. everybody knows people have off nights, move on. >> that's what the campaign has to do. one of the 52 reasons is not that he's a great debater. the reason for what happened is obama went against his nature. i think the decision was made for him to be cautious and to let mitt romney be mitt romney and hopefully fail to win the debate. unfortunately that was a huge strategic blunder because the president in attempting to be cool, be presidential and stay agovernment fray ended up looking detached, he looked off and a bit listless. romney is great that fabricating facts on the fly. and obama did not take mitt romney to task particularly for saying things like he doesn't have a $5 trillion tax cut which of course he does. and for not bringing up the 47% and drawing other sharp c