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Obama better start fighting for his job

Thomas Friedman

Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 | 2:02 a.m.

Last week’s debate was important not only because Mitt Romney “won” and thereby energized his moribund campaign. It was important because Romney won in a way that exposed and deepened President Barack Obama’s two greatest vulnerabilities in this election, while overcoming, at least for one night, Romney’s greatest weakness. Maybe we should have seen this coming. For weeks, Romney had performed so badly and had fallen so far behind in swing states that if this campaign were a Ryder Cup singles match, you’d have said the president felt he had the match in the bag with just a few holes ...

Thomas Friedman is a columnist for The New York Times.

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By CarmineD (Carmine DiFazio)

Oct. 9, 2012

5:18 a.m.

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It's too late for President Obama. He's tired, fatigued, and can't go on. He should take a pass on the rest of the debates. Better to look like a loser with them than have to face the grilling he will recieve on higher and higher gas prices and the failure of his policies and actions to protect American lives in the Benghazi Consulate. Obama is through. I hear the dirge.

CarmineD