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Sean Gallagher

Obama expected to 'come out swinging' at Tuesday's debate - CNN.com - 0 views

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    This article is used to write the in class commentary in response to the question, How does your article use language to achieve its aims? 
Aidan Williams

Obama Gets His Mojo Back - Bloomberg - 0 views

  • Apparently Barack Obama does want to be re-elected as president.
  • the president’s spirited performance
  • though Romney’s treatment of the president and the moderator, Candy Crowley of CNN, was occasionally too pugnacious
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  • Obama won pretty decisively on points
  • more responsive than Romney
  • responses tended to be more substantive
  • Romney’s was nonsensical, somehow morphing into a sermon about the need for two-parent families
  • It’s fair to say that Obama has done too little on gun control. For Romney’s party, however, that little is too much.
  • Obama has some real achievements to cite here
  • Romney’s answer, by contrast, was a conceptual and linguistic muddle
  • Romney’s performance suffered compared with the president’s
  • he got his facts wrong
  • allowing Obama to lecture him about playing politics
  • declining to elaborate
  • It’s not that Obama’s answer was bad
  • Could Obama get his mojo back? He could and did
anonymous

Biden and Ryan Quarrel Aggressively in Debate, Offering Contrasts - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "His interruptions were strategic, intended to raise questions about the Republican ticket. When Mr. Ryan attacked the administration's stimulus program, Mr. Biden pointed out that Mr. Ryan had sent him a letter, requesting money for his Congressional district in Wisconsin. As soon as the debate was over, Republicans were trying to liken Mr. Biden's performance to that of Al Gore against George W. Bush in 2000, when unflattering cutaway camera shots caught him sighing and rolling his eyes impatiently as Mr. Bush spoke. But while the two campaigns awaited the results of "insta-polls" determining a winner and a loser, the key question would not come as quickly: Whether Mr. Biden did enough to help move the Obama campaign beyond the president's own listless debate performance a week earlier. At one point Mr. Ryan even made reference to his imperative to do so, telling him, "I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground." It was the biggest moment of the campaign for Mr. Ryan, who invigorated the Republican base in August when Mr. Romney asked him to join the ticket. But his role as chairman of the House Budget Committee also opened him up to significant criticism from Mr. Biden, particularly when Mr. Ryan promised a bipartisanship that he said Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden had not delivered as promised. Before the debate, Democrats were curious about whether Mr. Ryan would stand by his approach to Medicare, which has included different versions of a plan to offer people 65 and older an option to use government subsidies to purchase private insurance. He did, and then some, saying his only intention - and Mr. Romney's - was to ensure the program's longevity. "Medicare and Social Security did so much for my own family," Mr. Ryan said. "We are not going to jeopardize this program, but we have to save it." Looking into the camera, Mr. Biden said, "These guys haven't been big on Medicare from the beginning," asking the
Aidan Williams

US elections: Mitt Romney prepares for key televised election debate - Telegraph - 0 views

  • But the pressure is high for him to land some heavy blows, if not a killer punch, in a gladiatorial setting that has delivered some of the most memorable moments of American political theatre over four decades
  • wooden and with a recent track record of verbal gaffes
  • "comeback kid"
Christine Nguyen

Liberals 'freak out' after Obama's poor debate performance | Fox News - 2 views

  • collateral
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      Something pledged as security for repayment of a loan, to be forfeited in the event of a default
  • vein-throbbing rant
  • vented
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      Give free expression to (a strong emotion) he had come to vent his rage and despair
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  • begging the president to do better.
  • tenure,
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      The holding of an office his tenure of the premiership would be threatened
  • allay
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      relieve or alleviate
  • attaboys
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      An informal expression of encouragement or admiration, typically to a man or boy
  • soundbytes
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      WHAT THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT: The article talks about the reactions of major media outlets in the US toward Obama's failed performance in last week's presidential debate against his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. The main highlights of the articles are the strong reactions from the liberals, who are said to "freak out" after Obama's performance. However, at the middle of the article, the writer presents readers with positive feedback from other major media outlets such as the CNN, NBC and other political critics. The article as a whole is biased toward Romney's side because even though it tries to mention both sides of the argument, the language seems to shift toward praising Romney. For example, the sentence "Despite the math of the evening's results, some major media outlets downplayed Romney's big win". The word "big" indicates the writer's point of view about Romney's performance, which shows that the writer is favoring Romney.
  • 'freak out'
Lisa Kim

Connecting with the viewer: 'Romney was able to out Obama Obama' - CNN.com - 4 views

  • sporadically
  • fray,'
  • Facebook users, who rated the performance using the CNN grading application, described Obama as "meek" and "unprepared." A number of users who graded the president poorly mentioned that he was regularly looking down.
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  • Romney said
  • former Obama adviser Van Jones
  • Romney directly told viewers
  • Romney said
  • Critics sometimes accuse the president
  • James Carville, a CNN contributor and former adviser to President Bill Clinton
  • Carville continued
  • CNN's Chief National Correspondent John King
  • Again, as Romney was answering, Obama seemed to be taking notes
  • And viewers agreed.
  • told t
Aidan Williams

Biden and Ryan Prepare for Debate - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Unbound
  • scathing
    • Aidan Williams
       
      bitterly severe, as a remark
  • dissembling
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      to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of
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  • vigorously
robert ellson

Biden and Ryan Prepare for Debate - NYTimes.com - 4 views

  • surrogates
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      surrogate: replacement: it's like Paul and Biden are debating for Romney and Obama
robert ellson

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