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October 04, 2012 | | THE MASTER At a Denver rally the morning after the first presidential debate, Barack Obama said the rival speaking to him on stage was not “the real Mitt Romney.” Most pundits, however, still think Romney won the debate. Why? Romney was so relentless and unchecked, writes The Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan, that Obama only had two options: call him a shameless liar or try to remind the nation of Mitt's actual policies. He tried the latter—and failed badly. DAY TWO Turkey extended its strikes on Syria for a second day after a shell fired from inside Syria levelled a house the Turkish village of Ackacale, killing a woman, her three daughters, and another woman. Turkey immediately responded by shooting artillery deep into Syria, and are now continuing to fire on Syrian targets. Turkey has not declared war, but its parliament approved an emergency bill that would allow cross-border action without the help of Turkey’s Western and Arab allies. NATO strongly condemned the attack, calling Syria’s blast a “flagrant violation of international law.” COUNTDOWN After a game-changing debate, tomorrow’s payroll figures will be hugely consequential for the campaign. The Daily Beast’s Daniel Gross predicts the big numbers—and shows why they’re overhyped. FRIENDS In an interview published Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook registered its 1 billionth user on Sept. 14, eight years after the social-networking site launched at Harvard. “It’s really humbling to get a billion people to do anything,” Zuckerberg told Businessweek. The Facebook team came together in the company’s offices to watch the countdown, but did not publicly announce the milestone because of the difficulty of pinpointing the billionth user. Zuckerberg said Facebook has just 1,000 engineers, which means each is responsible for a million users. The social network also released its first commercial on Thursday, which attempts to link Facebook to the human desire to connect. Dirt Off Their Shoulders President Obama may have disappointed supporters in Wednesday night's presidential debate, but now that we all know Mitt Romney can, in fact, hold his own in a debate, Democrats are ready to dust themselves off and move on with the campaign. "I think that Governor Romney is certainly a skilled debater. And last night he was able to elevate his level of performance. But he did not change the fundamental dynamics of this race, nor did he change some of the policies that actually got us into the economic mess that we have," top Obama surrogate Martin O'Mally, the governor of Maryland, said on CNN. "Today is a new day. Everybody wakes up, when we go back for the last 35, 36 days of this campaign." | | 
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