Put yourself at one of the initial meetings between Mitt Romney and his advisers prior to preparing for the debates. At some point during the discussion, a member of his staff may have said, "How do you debate a fairytale, a myth, a fiction, a make-believe person created by the media...and Obama himself?" Another member may have raised a similar concern with the query, "Even if we win, how do we deal with a media that will trumpet Obama as the true victor? Because they not only created the fantasy; they have diligently protected it for almost four years." Their conclusion may well have been: "We must overwhelmingly defeat Obama to succeed and to blunt the predictable post-debate media narrative...so let's focus on that as our goal." A realistic appraisal of Obama and his track record would have included personal traits: his penchant for windy, empty rhetoric; his ridiculous straw-man arguments; his dislike of being contradicted; his thin skin; his arrogant conviction that he could better anyone; his belief that....
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