Like many, I've thought much about the last debate. Considering Mr. Romney's remarkable onstage transformation has raised a rather existential question.
How do you "debate" someone who holds no position, or sincerely proclaims a credo he condemned when you last heard him? How do you have a contest of ideas with someone who declares, utterly without irony, that if he says something is true, no one is permitted to say otherwise?
In that encounter, I think the president really did stand as a representative to all Americans, stunned, befuddled and asking, "What the...?"
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