Disappointing Debate
Written by Sam on September 27th, 2008I was not impressed with McCain last night in the debate. Obama gave him so many openings where he could have come back and slammed one out of the park against him and instead he was missing in action. Obama wants to raise to taxes on those making over $250,000? Fine, does Obama realize that a good amount of those people are small businesses owners, providers of 75% of the jobs in this country, who will now have to suspend expanding their business or scale back and lay off workers causing a rise in unemployment? That’s the answer I was expecting from McCain and instead he stood there letting Obama beat him over the head on the economy.
When talking about the financial state of the country why did McCain not bring up the only major piece of legislation Barack Obama has written, the Global Poverty Act? While the country is in a financial crisis and heading towards recession, Barack Obama would not only raise taxes on small business owners, but would send over $800 billion a year out of our economy and essentially hand it over to the United Nations for global wealth redistribution. McCain could have nailed him on that. As a matter of fact, McCain could win the whole damn election on that one piece of legislation and his campaign hasn’t even talked about it.
I think McCain had the upper hand when it came to the foreign policy discussions during the second half but he really could have shaken Barry up last night all over the place and missed several golden opportunities. I could have pulled somebody out of the college Republicans over at Winthrop University and they could have put up a better fight against Obama. I sure hope Palin is more on the money for her time in the spotlight Thursday night.
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McCain didn’t even have as much of an upper hand on foreign policy as he should have. He let Obama explain his “without preconditions” stance, a position that has baffled me up until the explanation last night.
I do think that the worst loser of this debate was Jim Lehrer, who let both candidates push him around.
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I think that neither candidate really had an upper hand in the debate. Both made points that sounded plausible. For McCain this was natural; for Obama, he was prepped very, very well.
Since this was McCain’s debate to lose (foreign policy) and Obama’s to prove himself, I think Sen. Obama wins by default just by going pound-for-pound against Sen. McCain.
If Sen. Obama can maintain the character he was in last night until Nov. 4 I think there’s a real chance he could win. Prior to the financial mess and last night I said it would be McCain hands down. Now, I’m not so sure. The election is just over a month away and the first debate didn’t help McCain at all, but it certainly helped Obama.
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“Since this was McCain’s debate to lose (foreign policy) and Obama’s to prove himself, I think Sen. Obama wins by default just by going pound-for-pound against Sen. McCain.”
Why you stupid evil corrupt conservative son of a… wait, I totally agree with this analysis. I think hell just froze over.
What did you guys think of Lehrer’s horrible performance?
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The global poverty act commits us to actually doing what we said we would do in the U.N.’s Millenium Development Goals.
You mention “global wealth distribution”… the bill buys things like schools and hospitals and clean drinking water for poor children so that they don’t die of easily treatable diseases or continue to be poor due to lack of quality education.
Maybe McCain doesn’t want to be publicly against giving hospitals and clean drinking water to starving children. Maybe he doesn’t want the fact that half the sponsors of the bill are Republicans to be brought up.