Did You Feel More Informed Afterwards?
September 29th, 2008 | 
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Can’t say that I was impressed by the Presidential Debate on Friday. But I am impressed that I sat and watched all 2 hrs. I think this is the first year I’ve done that. And I’m looking forward to watching the vice-presidential candidates face-off this Thursday, October 2nd.
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But yeah, ummm……I wasn’t overly moved or excited by either candidate during that debate. All the hype over having this debate, and it wasn’t even all that. All I heard was Iraq, cut spending, health-care, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, alternative energy sources, something about us sending $10 billion a month overseas (WTH?!?), no direct comments on the bail out, cut more gov’t spending……waa-waa-waa, and so on.
One comment that stood out to me was while McCain was going on (and ON) about how the gov’t needs to cut spending in order to start getting the economy back on track, Obama pointed out that McCain approved the budget and voted with “his” president during the 8 years that we did all this extra, un-wise spending. So ummm, where was all the concern then?
McCain didn’t seem to have a response for that.
That was a GOTCHA! moment for me.
Another comment was during the Iraq segment, McCain was pumping up this surge strategy that apparently “worked” recently during the war, and how Obama was against this successful strategy from jump. Obama clapped back with (and I’m paraphrasing), “John, you act as if the war started in 2007. The war started in 2003 and had it not been for poor planning and poor strategies to begin with, that surge wouldn’t have been needed.”
Barack, I was saying the EXACT same thing.
GOTCHA!
I’m sure I’m overlooking some good points here and there (apparently they didn’t matter that much to me), but overall……I’d call it a weak draw between the two candidates, with a slight edge towards Obama (based off his two GOTCHA-GOTCHA’s). I’m sure my slight bias also played a factor, lol.
But I will hand it to McCain that he managed to stand his ground more than I anticipated. With all his side-stepping before the debate, he didn’t seem as unprepared as I thought he would.
hmm…i only watched an hour. i couldn’t take the repetition and the beating around the bush. i do know one thing. i wish mccain would learn how to control his facial expressions. he has no game face. and how in the hell we think that is acceptable for a leader is beyond me. bush always has a stupid look on his face, but you never really know what he’s thinking. only that he’ll screw you over later. lol. i’m tired of the elections but i can’t wait to vote!
I agree, the debate wasn’t all that. McCain performed much better than I expected, although foreign policy plays to his strengths, so I guess it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Obama met expectations, more or less (he did what I expected him to do)… But McCain also came across to me as crotchety and haughty. He sounded a lot more off his game in the economy part of the debate earlier on, almost shrill.
Like you I also came away feeling like it was a draw… which means (at least to me) Obama won, as he was leading going into the debate and McCain didn’t change that.
I missed it but I heard some great reviews
I think that people who don’t have their heads up their ass can see that Obama is the better candidate regardless of party
an NYTIMES op ed contributor was pointing out that a future with McCain is just downright scary as banks continue to fail
he admits he knows NOTHING about economics and finance
I need a president who is not planning to spend my hard earned tax dollars on killing people’s children!