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I was hosting 400 people in a room watching the debate and we were having -- with comics and when romney threw out that the president is taking away 716 -- and the president just sat there, the audience audibly went, whoa, dude, speak up. like they were yelling and they were so mad. >> heres an example of somebody being perhaps more broadly. snl lampooned by debating style. lets watch. >> one thing president obama, why was he letting governor romney talk? forgot the first rule of debating. alway...

The morn important stoe importa suleman, do you remember her? >> whos nadya suleman? >> dont even go there. >> the octo mom. >> oh, my god. >> you dont remember her? >> no. >> shes amazing. she was trying to support her poor -- shes got 14 kids. celebrity boxing. and porn. porn. youve got to support your kids. youve got to do porn. shes doing something that shes much better -- >> shes dating. >> shes debating. shes going to be debating online for money. lindsay lohan -- >> i knew we count take m...

Priebus. in the vice-presidential debate, how much do you think the issues of medicare will come up? is that an accurate representation of the romney/ryan plan? >> absolutely not. its laughable that debbie wasserman-schultz would give anyone a lecture about budgeting when she and her party have not given a budget in 3 years in violation of the law. they are not doing their job and they are spewing talking points about the budgeting process. its a joke. secondly, i expect joe biden to do a good j...

Nothing -- >> its so different from the vermont legislature where the committee would be in the same room at the same time and over time you build up trust and have confidence that the person you were talking to wanted to make vermont a better place. in washington, its all talking points and poll tests. we dont sit together in a committee room, the folks have an agenda. the contraception issue of all men talking about womens issues. the inability to have adult conversation about issues that are ...

Thats more than a scripted line. in a nutshell it synopsized how governor romney feels about the presidents philosophy on government. the fact that he used it the next day in his stump speech and probably use it going forward means it has resonance and catching on with the base. >> nic, you are presidential historian, how do you describe his lackluster performance? >> primaries got very good at debating. four years since the president has debated. you could tell he was rusty. the president doesn...

Theyre also promising to defend doma with the democrats stopping doing that right now under this administration, the house republicans are defending doma. why isnt the republican party following public opinion on this? and why would you want to elect mitt romney and paul ryan in this circumstance given how you feel about it? >> you may have overlooked the fact that for the last few weeks ive been joe biden. >> mr. olson has been playing the part of joe biden in paul ryans debate prep which will ...

That hes debating and that hes reading on teleprompters? because yesterday, as he was reading the lines off of that teleprompter, you sat there going, oh, my gosh, he couldnt say one of these things spontaneously on wednesday night. but he can read it pretty well off the teleprompter. its like bill maher said. a guy thats given a million dollars to the campaign. i cant believe im saying this, but obama really needs his teleprompter. >> on realtime, if you were online during the debates, you had ...

Ive seen 1,000 debates. ive participated in, you know, scores of debates. and you know immediately. you can just look around the stage at the people to the left and the right of you, how deep can they go? by the way, they pick up on your eyes while youre looking across at them. there were a couple guys where a guy was about to do a cheap shot on me, and id lean in and go, you want to? lets go. and theyd back off immediately. barack obama. it happened with hillary clinton time and time again wher...

>> he should have been aware he was on camera. he seemed not disinterested, which would mean objective, but uninterested, and he looked as if he really would rather be somewhere else. thats very uncharacteristic of him and very dangerous and thats what the split screen can do to you and it shouldnt have happened. >> it was as if he was saying to himself, this, too, shall pass. >> and that it cant pass quickly enough. >> yeah. anyway, in clear contrast governor romney seemingly took obama -- kept...

>> maria teresa, isnt it the case that the president did leave quite a lot of ammunition, as it were, on the shelf. the 47% was never once mentioned. >> right. >> paul ryans 30%. >> i think it was on purpose. and i think the reason -- i believe its on purpose is because if he immediately started talking about the 47%, he immediately started talking about immigration, he immediately started talking about womens issues, the independent voter all of a sudden says, you know what? obama is a little t...