The chair

Facebook at the moment has a video talking about all the wonderful aspects of chairs: community, rest, fun, etc.  In the event this is not painfully obvious to all, this is an effort to reframe the concept of chair such that an empty chair cannot be used to such devastating effect in portraying Obama.   They are in fact trying to tie positive feelings to Obama’s patent dereliction of duty.

This is patent advocacy, and frankly I really don’t get, as much as I
talk about it, how people can be so stupid as to believe good things
will flow from this man’s reelection.  The rich will get richer, the
poor will get poorer, we will continue to lurch along with high
structural unemployment, energy will get vastly more expensive, our
international standing will continue to decline, the Middle East will be
lost to the Muslim Brotherhood, a war will be waged on our suburbs,
punitive tax rates will be enacted, and so on.

With regard to the empty chair theme, consider this article, in which someone in a  position to know said that Obama thought he had WON the debate with Romney, and that he did not take debate preparation even remotely seriously.

During his debate preparation in
Henderson, Nevada, Obama broke off to visit a campaign field office.
There, he joked with a volunteer about how his advisers were ‘keeping me
indoors all the time’ to practice. ‘It’s a drag. They’re making me do
my homework.’