Denver – One of many headscratchers after President Obama’s listless, unfocused debate performance Wednesday was why he didn’t hit GOPer Mitt Romney with Mitt’s infamous “47 percent” remark. It’s only a centerpiece of Obama’s campaign and one of Romney’s biggest gaffes of the year.
Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina’s answer: It didn’t come up.
Huh?
Isn’t the point of a debate to MAKE SURE that such things come up? Another questionable tactical move — or non-move by Obama on a bad night. Right behind not pressing Romney harder on some of his dubious fact assertions.
Messina dismissed such questions as concerns about “style points” — a phrase used by other Obama officials in the post-debate scrum Wednesday. But in this culture, where people have the attention spans of gnats, style points count.
Let’s go to San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com’s Shaky Hand Productions for Messina’s answer: