Debate the Debate's Debate

[Patroklos]

I missed that. Typing. Did he?

Yep.

[Lancer]

They'll be interested to learn that.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by EPW
Agreed, though most of McCain's proposals are crazy.

Agreed.

But they might just work

Originally posted by Patroklos
Did Obama just call Venezuala a rogue state?

Didn't listen.

But I did hear Obama say "clealy you'd agree with me, China and Russia are not democracies".

Correct me if I'm wrong, this is the first time such a direct statement on the state of Russian politics hasbeen made by a major political figure.

[Vesayen]

It's over. McCain expressed his ideas better then Obama but he also lied a lot. Obama had better ideas but did not express them as well. No clear winner for me.

Edit: Fox News declared McCain the winner the moment it ended, reading back specific quotes of McCain lying and claiming this worked against Obama.

[Lancer]

Siro, about time too. I'll give Obama points for that.

[Asher]

Obama's left handed.

Is McCain left-handed too?

[Patroklos]

Overall, blah.

Each made some good zingers, but usually wasted them by then yammering on incoherently. And thats another thing, zingers. No real substantial or substantive ***** slaps, just the same lame and unimportant gotchas from the campaign commercials.

I wish I had gone out drinking earlier

[EPW]

It was a horrible debate. It might as well not have happened.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Asher
Obama's left handed.

Is McCain left-handed too?

Vote Asher. I ask the important questions.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Asher
Obama's left handed.

Is McCain left-handed too?

Torture wounds.

[DanS]

Obama was a little better on the economy (I expected better), but McCain took the foreign policy portion rather handily.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by EPW
It was a horrible debate. It might as well not have happened.

QFT

[Theben]

Well he should have. That's his strong suit.

McCain needed to win big tonight. I don't think he did well enough.

[Elok]

Eh. Both avoided actually answering most of the questions directed their way, as they more or less had to in order to not get buried in attack ads later ("what would you cut?"). Also it's not like they could actually propose a way to balance the budget, just a bunch of tiny little whittles that sound big.

Standard American debate, really, but I felt enormously thankful that we had our first presidential debate in twelve years wherein neither candidate was a complete blithering idiot.

[MrFun]

I think Obama has done a great job in challenging the misperception that he is unknowledgeable about foreign affairs.

On another note, about 30 minutes before the debate tonight I had an interesting phone conversation with one of my sisters. This sister of mine is the most conservative among us children in our family - for example, she is very much anti-abortion. She has even said insensitive things when talking about black people in the past (more unwittingly I think rather than harboring strong racism).

Yet, in our phone conversation we talked about who each of us is voting for and she has said she is voting for Obama because she believes Obama is much more genuinely sympathetic toward the middle class. This could be one of key voting groups Obama needs to win - otherwise socially conservative voters who have the economic jitters enough to vote for a Democrat. If people similar to my sister in this aspect follow suit, Obama has a stronger chance to win the election.