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