Obama v. Romney, round 1

In last night's debate Romney definitely had the edge in terms of fight, his piss and vinegar quite tart and effective. The problem was that he declaimed virtually every policy he'd defended up to that point. Not only that, he basically lied about his previous views and about obvious facts. Obama of course challenged him repeatedly on the facts but in his usual cool, detached fashion. And he didn't challenge Romney on some other doozies like social security. The general consensus seems to be that Obama was too timid and intellectual in his style, while Romney was aggressive and forceful. Romney won on style and Obama won on specifics and facts. Yet what it seems everyone wants to see is Obama fight back, get down and dirty, raise his voice, show aggressive body language, glare Romney down, show spine and raised hackles. That is, grow a pair. If Obama would combine that with his specifics and facts he be demolishing Romney. Without that style though this race will get much tighter.