Tom needs to get on the phone to Obama, stat. I remember one of the very first Best Shows I heard that made me start listening regularly, when Z-Man was talking about how he was working on this puppet, getting all po-faced about how he could never reach the heights accomplished by Fozzie Bear. Tom was all, "Listen, you've gotta get hungry. You've gotta take that puppet and run laps with it. You stand in front of the mirror every morning and say 'Fozzie Bear is nothing. Fozzie Bear is garbage to us.'"
That said, Jim Lehrer was a disgrace, these "debates" have become worthless charades that achieve nothing except afford news-media figures the chance to preen and spin, and I am not convinced that that thing last night really changed any minds, though our gallant mainstream media is doing their damnedest to make it so.