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Stumbling out of the gate

Or things like that.

Anyways, to say that Obama stumbles out of the gate is to notice the mistakes he made or the setbacks he suffers at the early stage of the election, or rather reelection, campaign. In other words, things did not work out for him initially.

Fortunately for Obama, he did not quit. In fact, he had resolve and found the wherewithal to not only get back into the race (for the White House) and win a second term.

Still, to sum up, stumbling out of the gate is a situation to avoid. Instead one should try to be the first out of the gate and hit the floor running.

Alright, you ask one question and get to learn two more phrases in the process. Will that be killing three birds with one throw?

I think it is a good bargain for you.

Here are media examples:

1. The fallout from Mitt Romney’s poorly received interview Tuesday with Fox News’ Bret Baier keeps coming, with Baier revealing Wednesday night that Romney complained after the taping that his questions had been “overly aggressive” and “uncalled for.” Now conservatives, who hardly seemed impressed with Romney’s performance in the interview to begin with, are openly mocking the GOP candidate for being thin-skinned.

The interview was most notable for Romney’s petulance. Baier asked him a series of questions about his various flip-flops, noting that “your critics charge that you make decisions based on political expediency and not core conviction,” and Romney responded with evident annoyance, pretending that he’d only ever changed his position on abortion and telling Baier, “I don’t know how many hundred times I’ve said this, too. This is an unusual interview.”