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Obama Should Have Spent More Time in Court

I'll reserve my comment till tomorrow morning. For now, a lawyer friend writes:

"The president is a terrible debater. He's an academic. He'd have been well served to be a trial lawyer for 10 years. I am having flashbacks of my first hearings and depositions. When you haven't been in the cross-fire of a smart debater, you panic in the moment. Give and take takes practice. He's never had it."

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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