Join us tonight at 9 p.m. ET for the vice presidential debate. You’ll be able to watch it live here. We’ll have ongoing coverage at TPMLivewire, reporting on the ground from Kentucky by TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro, and Josh Marshall liveblogging. See you at 9.
Here’s the video of Obama a short time ago at that speech in Florida. If you’re still morose about the debate, you’ll want to watch.
This speech President Obama just gave down in Florida is the first time since the debate I’ve really seen him with a groove, like he’s ready to do this. Here’s some key passages. We’ll have video in a moment.
Barack Obama on Romney just now :”After a year of running as severely conservative now he’s trying to convince you he was severely kidding.”
TPM Reader TT responds to “Are You In?”
Like a lot of liberal Democrats I am at times completely baffled by President Obama’s passivity when it comes to defending his presidency. Notwithstanding my very real disappointment with his record on civil liberties, the lack of any serious effort to bring accountability to Wall Street, the pointless search for a “Grand Bargain” (which Republicans will abandon anyway the microsecond they get the chance), and expanding the war in Afghanistan, he really has put a hell of a lot of points up on the scoreboard against sustained and at times staggeringly vicious opposition.
Contrary to earlier reports, Rep. Issa tells us he has no plans to convene a committee hearing into the last jobs report … yet.
As I noted this morning, a rush of swing state polls out over the last 24 hours showed Barack Obama with a diminished but real lead in states he needs to win to be reelected. It will also be key to see what comes out of the debate tonight between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden — one in which I think the sitting Veep is significantly underestimated.
But over the last few days I’ve been thinking a lot about one of the Obama campaign’s most favored taglines: “Are you in?” I think I remember a related one — though this may have been my brain riffing on ‘are you in’ — that hit something like ‘Do You Have Barack’s Back?’ Read More