Many people feel that Obama won the third debate last night. However, they were only watching and listening to him for part of an hour and a half. They did not see his record rolling around behind his head like a bubble in a cartoon. In drama they call it the understory. It is what surrounds the plot or the debate. It’s never what Obama does in the putative future but what he did in the apparent past that matters. His deeds and his speeches don’t match. Tomorrow is Obama’s excuse; yesterday is his witness.
