From the perspective of political junkies, McCain kicked ass ...
... but when considering that they're essentially campaigning for swing voters, I think Obama won the day. McCain kept talking about his experience, and Obama talked about people's problems.
McCain didn't show much compassion unless it was a pre-written story. Not good strategy.
....when he nailed Obama on his ridiculous idea of having talks with Ahmenejad.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says the United States should begin direct negotiations with Iran over its nuclear enrichment program.
Kissinger, speaking Monday at George Washington University along with four other former U.S. State Department secretaries, said the next president should initiate high-level discussions with Iran "without conditions," ABC News reported.
The opinion of the former secretary of state for Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford differs sharply with that of the current GOP administration, which has maintained a strict policy of not negotiating directly with governments deemed to sponsor international terrorism. The Bush administration has demanded that Iran dismantle its nuclear program as a precondition for any direct talks.
The other former secretaries of state, Madeleine Albright, James Baker III, Warren Christopher and Colin Powell, were asked to identify the biggest challenges the next president will face. They answered the fight against terrorism, restoring America's reputation abroad, r-building U.S. economic power and global climate change, ABC reported.
see thats what i mean c-gold. you already have your mccain bias so it's not worth debating on who you think won because you'll be an auto disagree. you say you don't like mccain but your posts and racial rhetoric suggest otherwise.
like i said wait till the morning. a rx who won the pres debate and why thread has little merit on who supposedly won the debate, like it means to you. your trying to hard and caring too much. this is politics, you live in DC, i thought you would understand how it works. half the people automatically disagree with the other half. your just on the mccain side and trying to push your point on us.
just wait until you have some data on it.
Calling him his focking name is a lack of substance?
No wait... It must be racist to call him Barrack Hussein Obama... you just want to call him Hussein because that is unpopular.
I don't like Mccain... but I can't stand that socialist Obama.
I am unbiased though. I capped football for 5 years on various forumns and people didn't even know who my favorite team was because I tell it like it is.
Obama won early on, but Mccain crushed him on foreign policy.
Can you find anybody that says Obama won the foreign policy debate when Mccain was joking on him, laughing, and Obama finally said " I agree with your assessment"?
Mccain won the speeches early on, but not the DEBATE about what to DO.
The whole notion that anyone watching was actually tabulating some kind of Score as if a "winning score" would result in even ten people nationwide changing their already decided vote for POTUS
you are unbiased, right.
i think you mean obama at the bottom there...
i think on certain points mccain won the foreign policy debate but not on all of it.
personally i think both candidates said what their bases wanted to hear but i think obama appealed more to independents.
Neither guy even answered the questions early on... the mod was pounding the table... "WHAT WOULD BE ON HOLD AFTER THE 700 BILLION DOLLAR BAIL OUT", " DO YOU EVEN AGREE WITH IT", " ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTIONS"....
Obama couls have CRUSHED Mccain here, but he tip toed around the issue just like Mclame. I was shocked he wasn't decisive and on the offensive. Then look at how Mclame WAS decisive and on the attack during foreign policy.
Mccain 1
Communist 0
I disagree 100%.
Statistics show very clearly that most people watch the first debate
and viewing numbers drop greatly (for debates) after that.
McCain's strong showing could very easily bring him a bump in the polls,
and move a considerable amount of "undecideds" over to the
right side.