Presidential Debate, Round 2, FIGHT!
Will John McCain bring the hurt? Or will Obama duck-and-stick? Will it get dirty? Will we hear about Ayers or Keating? Or will they just make up and hug, because hey, we're all brothers?
The debate starts at 6:00 PST.
The debate starts at 6:00 PST.
Labels: Elections
posted by Toney at 5:46 PM
19 Comments:
I don't feel that either candidate looks very comfortable in their posture when they are answering the questions.
no love here? i feel lonely.
one thing... does mccain sound like he is breathing hard into the microphone? i assume it's probably just a product of age.
I'm here, but in class, and I was hoping to get the play-by-play in here.
However, this AIRBEARS THING IS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL. Why have we not fixed this yet?
www.dailykos.com has a good liberal punch-by-punch, but i know most people like to steer clear from partisan analysis.
especially here at Berkeley.
Both are doing somewhat ok. Obama is stuttering a little to much, and McCain is moving around too much. Neither one is doing much to distinguish themself.
sigh. Story of the presidential campaigns these days.
What happened to great speeches and leaders that we could really believe in?
McCain reminds me of my grandpa, who is OCD, senile, and generally distrustful of doctors telling him such things as, "You just suffered a heart attack."
I know this setting usually favors McCain, but it's not working for him tonight, and think I know why. During the debates, there's always a rule that the audience must maintain silence for fairness sake. But the town hall setting relies on the ability of the person giving the town hall to "ham it up" a bit, and play off the audience's responses & reactions.
Because the audience is maintaining silence, all McCain's 1-liners are getting no response, which is awkward, and he's not able to adjust his answers based on the mood of the audience, because he can't read the mood of the audience. All the experts said McCain was supposed to shine in this setting tonight, but he's just coming off as meh (this is me trying to be objective, but you all know of my liberal tendencies, so there may be skewing there).
Is anyone else as bothered by McCain calling people "my friends" as I am? It is practically every fifth word out of his mouth!
Shorter McCain on getting Bin Laden: "Believe me Dude, I can get you Bin Laden. Trust me Dude, there ways. You don't want to know about them. Hell I can get you Bin Laden by 3 o'clock."
WITH nail polish.
As a lefty, I feel like this is the first of the presidential/VP debates where there the dem is clearly winning. I think for the first time, Obama is actually speaking to the other side. "My mother died of cancer while she was on the phone with her insurance company." How great was that line? "Health care is a right -- we are too rich a nation for people to have to decide between medicine and food."
I really think Obama is killing it.
I'm getting pretty excited about an Obama Administration.
7:20, I think McCain is doing very, very poorly. He's repeating himself, and providing very disjointed responses that come off as rambling (see, e.g., my grandpa). But don't underestimate bigotry and smear that is about to be unleashed full throttle.
Things McCain doesn't know:
-- his 13 addresses.
-- names of his children.
-- where he is right now.
More?
I felt that while Obama's close was good, McCain's was a little better. I think that's a product of 1) being able to close second, and 2) McCain is REALLY good at saying "I'll fight for America, I'll fight for you, etc."
To score the entire debate, I'd give it to Obama 60/40. McCain just didn't seem very comfortable. Obama didn't either at first, but then he kind of settled into his groove.
- whether or not he wants offshore drilling
- why we went to iraq (although he does know what a surge is)
- what a maverick is
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/factchecking_debate_no_2.html
oops, here's the link.
FactCheck on the Debate
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