If you watched or listened to the first presidential debate you saw Romney win handily.  Or you are so far in denial about Czar Obama's job performance that you can no longer distinguish hope and change fantasy from reality.

But there are two more and a long way to go until election day.  Stay tuned.

A few quick thoughts about the debate:

Obama mailed it in (he can't be this bad, can he?).  He looked and sounded disengaged, he lacked passion and at times was indifferent or flat out sad.  It wasn't an easy task for Obama - defend the last four years and ask for four more. 

The moderator was inept.  And that's not necessarily a bad thing.  Jim Lehrer, although he clearly lacked control over the debate, let the two guys talk.  Unless you're role is going to a be tough-as-nails, ball-busting, fact-checker of a moderator, then just letting candidates go at it is the next best option.  But really, a moderator wasn't even needed if that's all Lehrer was going to do.

I don't pay too much attention to the post-debate spin.  But the brutal honesty from lefty Obama supporters was telling.  Take a look at Chris Matthews' bewilderment over the debate performance by the source of that thrill up his leg:

 

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And the best post-debate critique of the Obama performance:

Not since Jimmy Carter faced Ronald Reagan has the U.S. presidency been so embarrassingly represented in public. Actually, that’s an insult to Jimmy Carter.