First Debate Obama-McCain Options

[Hellfighter]

Funnily enough both did good in the areas they were supposed to be weak imo.
McCain in economics
Obama in Foreign Affairs

McCain got a clear knock out on Obama in the Surge portion.
Unfortunately Obama failed to counter that attack properly as he'd done a couple of weeks before when he noted the Sunni's switch to being anti-insurgent/terrorist as a big surge for the Surge. He also should've knocked out McCain where on the issue of timetables since McCain himself has spoken of a 2013 timetable.

Obama got the edge on McCain regarding Georgia since as he pointed out himself, Obama said Georgia needs to show constraint; Georgia needs to watch itself and not be too provocative since it has no Allies to directly help it in a tussle with Russia.

I liked how in the final phase Obama got the edge in is America safer where he identified the real covert terrorist threats to watch out for.

McCain kept his cool a few times -noticeably....lol. I think his tactic was not to look at Obama in addressing him most of the debate.
McCain did good and Obama better than expected. Nice debate.


This post has been edited by Hellfighter: 09/26/08 10:22pm

[HammaTime]

I really enjoyed the debate. Thought both did better than expected. Was very impressed with Obama's poise.

Early polling by CBS and CNN show Obama racking up a significant victory.

McCain needed this as a solid win. A guy I like to look to for a middle of the road reaction is David Gergen, political consultant and adviser to Nixon, Ford Reagan and Clinton. He saw this as a bleak night for the McCain campaign.

What I enjoy most about post debate commentary are the fact checking. It will be interesting to see what bubbles to the surface. There were quite a few whoppers. Both claiming Iran had REPUBLICAN guard! LOL. If it is Iran, they should have been talking about the Revolutionary Guard.

[Robert]

Thanks for starting a new topic.
I'll wait for an in depth opinion after watching what I missed an seeing what the fact checkers have to say.

Initial impression would be a small win for McCain.
Unfortunately anything less then then a big McCain win on this debate equals a loss for McCain.
From what I saw he didn't preform as well as I expect on this subject.
I did get a laugh out of Obama "I have a bracelet too", sorry but that was a stupid thing to say. I don't think it hurt him, I just found it funny.


More later....
The wifey is offering a cartoon of her own.