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Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.

President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.

Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because he's a calm, reasonable guy - but behind that, there has to be some fight. You have to be able to take a few punches and throw a few punches.

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

I am not one of those who wants Obama to fail. If he does well, that means the country's doing well.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.