With Romney debate prep underway, Dems ready their team

(CBS News) As Mitt Romney hunkers down for debate prep in New England this week, CBS News has confirmed that Democrats - including President Obama - have also begun to ready for the face-offs.

According to a senior Obama campaign official, Mr. Obama is in the process of preparing for the three upcoming debates, the first of which is slated for early next month.

A source tells CBS News that Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., too, has sat down for an initial meeting to start working on his role in the vice presidential debate preparations.

Van Hollen, who will be playing Paul Ryan in mock-debates with Vice President Joe Biden, told CBS News' Political Director John Dickerson on Wednesday that while he likes Ryan, "I was very disappointed in Paul Ryan's acceptance speech."

"It was a three alarm fire for the fact checkers," said Van Hollen, the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, which Ryan chairs.

The first presidential debate is slated for October 3 at the University of Denver, and will focus on domestic policy. The vice presidential debate follows a week later in Kentucky, and is meant to focus on both foreign and domestic policy.

John Kerry will play Mitt Romney in the president's debate prep, and Rob Portman will play the president in Romney camp's preparations.

Romney, who has scheduled a series of practice sessions this week, told reporters Wednesday he's glad he won't have to face off with his practice partner at the main event.

"I'm just glad I won't be debating uh, Rob Portman in the final debates," he said. "He's good."

Portman, who was thought to be a top contender on Romney's VP short list, also portrayed Mr. Obama during GOP nominee John McCain's debate prep in 2008.

Mr. Obama and Romney will also meet for debates on October 16, in Hempstead, N.Y., and October 22, in Boca Raton, Fla.

[reginaldcharleston]

The truth is that massive third-world immigration and forced integration is being required of EVERY White country and ONLY White countries, and according to the United Nations this is GENOCIDE. Many who say they are anti-racist are really just anti-White.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.

[nearl451]

And this synopsis has something to do with the artice?

[nearl451]

I guess it does take about a month's preparation to choose which lies to spin in a debate.

[nearl451]

OK. Honestly, how much prep does it take to say "wanna bet a million dollars on it?".

[BigPapaZagon]

Politifact has been tracking over 500 campaign promises so you don't have to do the work yourself. All you have to is open your mind and seek knowledge.

But if you did that you wouldn't be a true conservative anymore.

Promise Kept 190 (37%)
Compromise 72 (14%)
Promise Broken 83 (16%)
Stalled 49 (10%)
In the Works 112 (22%)
Not yet rated 2 (0%)

So much for breaking every promise he's made.
I can't wait to see Romney get schooled in the debates.

[alphabet77-2009]

Romney and Ryan will do a repeat of the Bush policies: tax breaks favoring the wealthiest, deregulate, and wage wars. The same policies that plunged the world into the Global Economic Crisis of 2008. It's too soon after that disaster for the country to survive another crash like that.

[timmyrider]

lol

The sub mortgage crisis caused the GFC in 08. Not Bushs tax cuts

The left really is the side of idiots

[Bucky4U]

Why do the Evangelicals want to put an anti-christ into the white house?

The mormons claim to be Jews... every one is a Jew in happy mormon theology, Mormons descended from Ephraim, Native Americans from Manasseh, everybody except maybe black people.

I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan. - Revelations 2:9

[Conway193]

I'm an atheist, and I don't care who wins - both are bad, and can do nothing to save the moribund, bankrupt dump.

[EuroPride20x]

Asia for Asians, Africa for Africans, White countries for everybody???????Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this
RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white
country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan,
but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing
in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY
white country and ONLY white countries to "assimilate," i.e.,
intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem
would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought
into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a RACE
problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn't object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of
genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable
conservatives will just say that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.