HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- President Barack Obama stepped onto the stage here on Long Island ready to brawl. Within moments, he had called a Mitt Romney assertion "not true" and ridiculed his opponent's five-point plan as a one-point plan -- that one point being that the wealthy play by one set of rules, while everyone else plays by another.
It was a very different Obama from the one who barely showed up for the first debate. "Very little of what Governor Romney just said is true," Obama said early in the debate. During the first debate, Obama looked down at his notes or his shoes while Romney spoke. Tonight, he turned away from the audience early to squarely face Romney while directly attacking him.
Romney gave it back to the president, as the two stood nose to nose, each looking as if he'd rather be swinging at his opponent than debating him. "That wasn't a question, that was a statement," Romney told Obama early on, attempting to assert the dominance he won by default in the last debate.
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