i don t have that much great inflation give me your best speculation. ee don t like to do that here but the 47% remark did he forget about it. was al gore right he was dazed by the rockie mountain and he didn t focus? how do you not use that? i think it is absolutely inexplicable. it s political malpractice. bill: we all agree wouldn t know why he he wouldn t do it? political malpractice. whatever the reason is part of the back story is coming out. you are hearing it. the president didn t put the time in. bill: oh, stop. this is that i mean will you pinheaded college professors. you can t tell me a guy as smart as barack obama didn t remember the biggest gaffe that his opponent had. come on. that takes 32 seconds to figure that out gee, i should bring this up. why didn t he do it?
call it fox news show in the monitor and seeing the teleprompter i had the yankee game. why did i have the yankee game. pick it up with shepard smith. shepard smith had the yankee game put in there instead of getting fnc i had the yankee game i almost missed entire broadcast. bill: shepard smith is so jealous of this program he had the yankee game on so nobody could see the factor. bill: where is shepard smith he didn t come back. he they had flight difficulties. bill: i used to use that myself at abc. see you next tuesday i can t get out of here. i don t know why. i could fly to miami though but i can t get back to new york. maybe we could put on program that s what we call it maybe i could i would like to see bill. not you but your guest. we will get it, we will get it it s inching closer to the program all i can see is baseball. shepard is over there and his camera is fine. is he going to have his prompter and be golden.
was it cautious optimism? what was it? there was definitely gloating today, bill. it s been a rough month or so or maybe more for the romney campaign. where a lot of republicans felt like okay, this is a real opportunity i m on the record saying if you can t beat barack obama with this record shut down the party. i said that, it got a lot of play. i really mean it. this is a record very difficult to defend even if you are a really good politician. barack obama is a really good politician. bill: he wasn t last night though. interestingly enough. did your audience callers have any theory about why the president wasn t very good last night. people understand that for the last four years and maybe most of his life barack obama hasn t really been challenged all that much. he is seen as a his whole life
i mean, he was engaged. he wasn t engaged last night. that s what it was. whereas romney was. romney really believes. he was having fun. bill: here, the difference, romney believed everything he said. can you call romney a liar and say this and say that. it wasn t just that. he believed but bill. bill: the president is like ah, you know. yeah, bill, of the president has to defend four years, it s very difficult to defend. he really can t. bill: i created this and i did that. he created a big mess. i m sorry but barack obama is smart enough to know that when the real unemployment is 11.7%. that s kind of hard to defend. and when you don t have a teleprompter and you don t have a press giving you the circling the wagons treatment and up against a guy who actually did exist in the business world and thrive in that world, it s like the emperor has no clothes. and last night i believe the emperor has no clothes.
bill: memo to donna brazil whom i like the governor didn t have to land any big punches because the president slipped to the canvas all by himself. our pal james carville was a bit more realistic. it looked like romney wanted to be there and president obama didn t want to be there. he seemed like he was happy to be there debating because obama gave the impression that this the whole thing was kind of a lot of trouble. bill: it was a lot of trouble for the president. a cnn poll taken immediately after the debate said that 67% of registered voters believe mitt romney won the contest. just 25 percent said president obama did. a cbs news poll of uncommitted voters who watched the debate was interesting. 46% of them say mitt romney won. 22% believe the president came out on top. 32% say it was a tie. so, it was a good night for governor romney indeed. now, what does this mean going forward? number one, the romney campaign is energized. it will be easier to raise