A spokeswoman for President Obama's campaign on Thursday denied he
lost the previous night's presidential debate and criticized Mitt Romney
for looking like an "attacker in chief" on Wednesday night.
Appearing on CNN's “Starting Point,"
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki praised President Obama's "calm
delivery" as befitting the nation's commander in chief, saying Obama did
not come into the debate with a "checklist" of attacks.
Psaki said Americans are "not looking for an attacker in chief, which is what Mitt Romney was last night."
Obama's
campaign is looking to push back on polls, popular opinion and pundits
on both sides of the aisle that gave the win to Romney in large part due
to a perceived lackluster and unenthusiastic performance by the
president.
Romney was seen as the aggressor throughout
the night, and Obama officials after the debate began arguing he had
been too aggressive.
Psaki said Romney failed at delivering facts
about his proposed policies, which is what seniors in Florida and
independent voters in key states Ohio and Iowa wanted to hear.
Her
remark about a checklist of attacks was a reference to reports ahead of
the debate that Romney was rehearsing "zingers" to insert into the
debate.
"We're going to evaluate this by what people at home were thinking and what people on their couch were thinking," she said.
"Romney
failed, got an 'F' for delivery of facts," she continued. "Mitt Romney
doubled down on a number of the policies that had bedeviled his
campaign."
She also said Romney "relied on a magic calculator with
magic math" in his tax plan, a topic the two candidates sparred over at
length during the debate.
Questioned by CNN host Soledad O'Brien
during the interview on why Obama did not confront Romney's "magic
math" directly during the debate, Psaki simply said, "Agree to
disagree."
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