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I\u2019ve had a good night\u2019s sleep since watching Barack Obama and Mitt Romney engage in Round One of their debate series and I\u2019ll acknowledge that my initial off-the-cuff response to what I saw last night doesn\u2019t comport with what most \u201cexperts\u201d are saying about it.<\/p>\n

I called the event essentially a draw immediately after it ended. The pundit class says Romney won the first round.<\/p>\n

Maybe he scored more points. He was more aggressive. The president seemed a bit out of sorts. Obama didn\u2019t bring his \u201cA game\u201d to the event.<\/p>\n

But a larger question looms: Does a single debate determine who should be elected commander in chief of the greatest military apparatus in the world, or who should fix the economy or guide the nation through troubled waters? I hope not.<\/p>\n

The next two presidential debates and the VP debate set for next week will help clarify many things for us. Only after hearing the combatants talk about the whole range of issues should we make up our minds.<\/p>\n

And for those who now believe that they witnessed a \u201cgame changer\u201d last night, I only would refer them to the 1984 debate series between President Reagan and Walter Mondale. Reagan was simply awful in that first debate, stumbling through answers. In the second debate, one the journalists on the panel questioned whether the president, who was 73 at the time, was too old for the job. \u201cI am not going to make age an issue in this campaign,\u201d the president said. \u201cI am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent\u2019s youth and inexperience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reagan brought the house down \u2026 and won re-election in a 49-state landslide.<\/p>\n\n

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