Being Presidential requires that one is the "adult in the room", operating without blame, rancor, twisting the facts or omitting relevant details. (Obama has totally failed that test.)
A President must not get engaged in a rancorous exchange. The Presidential person would not even look at the person who is accusing him of something, but should calmly assert what is true, referring to what "Mr. _____" says is not true and then giving the facts. He must not engage or be engaged in any rancorous conversation, nor should he get heated up. He can stand strongly for the truth and for what he believes and contrast himself with the other candidate. He must always raise the level back to leading to a constructive end point.
A President must be civil and direct and always progressive and principled.
And a President (a future one) must set an absolute standard - and not be pulled down into the morass.
The Rational NonPolitician
P.S. The tackiest bit of the Republican debates was when Rick Perry twisted the facts plus continuing on an issue that was already fully answered. He accused Romney of hiring illegals and being a hypocrite when he had asked his the company that does his gardening maintenance to remove an illegal (when it was discovered by a Boston paper) and thought the problem was solved. When he found out later that there was an illegal working for that company a year later, he fired the company. What else could he do?
Based on that conversation, I would exclude Mr. Perry for consideration as a President.
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