{"id":1438,"date":"2012-10-01T01:02:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T05:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2012-10-01T01:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T05:02:39","slug":"president-obama-gets-in-on-the-debate-expectations-lowering-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/10\/01\/president-obama-gets-in-on-the-debate-expectations-lowering-game\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Gets in On The Debate Expectations-Lowering Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intel\/2012\/09\/30\/1-obama-vegas.o.jpg\/a_146x97.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Governor Romney is a good debater. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just okay,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/2012\/09\/obama-im-just-an-ok-debater-137076.html?hp=l1\">told<\/a> a crowd of 11,200 in Las Vegas on Sunday night. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Folks in the media are already speculating on who is going to have the <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/09\/mitt-romney-has-his-debate-zingers-all-ready.html\">best zingers<\/a>, who is going to put the most points on the board,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added, saying that he&#8217;s more interested in giving &#8220;serious&#8221; answers to policy questions. Either he&#8217;s given up on his strategy of not <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/09\/obama-debate-preparation.html\">boring the American people<\/a>, or he wants us to be surprised when Wednesday night&#8217;s debate takes the tone of a Friars Club roast.<\/p>\n<p>Read more posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/margaret%20hartmann\">Margaret Hartmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed Under:<br \/>\n          <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/master-debaters\" title=\"Read all posts tagged master debaters\">master debaters<\/a><br \/>\n            <\/strong>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/barack-obama\" title=\"Read all posts tagged barack obama\">barack obama<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/mitt-romney\" title=\"Read all posts tagged mitt romney\">mitt romney<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/debates\" title=\"Read all posts tagged debates\">debates<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>via Daily Intel <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/09\/obama-lowers-debate-expectations.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/09\/obama-lowers-debate-expectations.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Governor Romney is a good debater. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just okay,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Obama told a crowd of 11,200 in Las Vegas on Sunday night. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Folks in the media are already speculating on who is going to have the best zingers, who is going to put the most points on the board,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added, saying that he&#8217;s more interested &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/10\/01\/president-obama-gets-in-on-the-debate-expectations-lowering-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;President Obama Gets in On The Debate Expectations-Lowering Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,6,52],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-daily-intel","tag-ifttt","tag-margaret-hartmann"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-nc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}