CNN pundit and prospective Secretary of State appointee Fareed Zakaria gushed over President Barack Obama's foreign policy debate performance on Monday night.
"[Obama] quite effectively pointed out that Romney was indecisive or waffled on an issue or gone back and forth ... and he kept saying being commander-in-chief, being president is about being consistent," Zakaria said.
Zakaria later overlooked CNN's own instant poll of debate watchers by citing a CBS poll that showed a larger margin of victory for Obama.
"The gap for Obama is much higher; I think they are exactly right," he said.
Zakaria, who has criticized America's democracy, backed containment on a nuclear Iran, and expressed hostility toward Israel, is being floated as a high-level diplomat in a second Obama administration and has even been touted as a potential successor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. That did not prevent CNN from giving him a platform as a nonpartisan pundit in its post-debate analysis.