CNN Poll: Obama Wins the Debate

Submitted by Simon Rosenberg on 9/27/08

CNN polled after the debate and found that of those who watched, 51% said Obama won, 38% McCain. You can read more about the poll, and watch the debate if you missed it, here.

820am Update - One additional thing stands out this morning - how we now learn of a series of half truths, misremembrances, outright falsehoods that came from McCain last night. To clarify, in those two Eisenhower letters, Ike did not offer his resignation in either one; McCain came to Congress after the Marines went to Lebanon; and Henry Kissinger has indeed encouraged high-level meetings with Iraqis without preconditions.

Why does all this matter? As readers of this blog are well aware, there is great mountain of evidence that John McCain has a lost a step or is shockingly unconcerned with facts, truth and detail. We simply have not seen a candidate at this level of politics make the kind of serial mistakes he has made in this campaign. He just comes off, repeatedly, as a little out of it. Like a great major league pitcher whose fastball has lost its pop.

And I don't think given all the next President will have to do that this is a good set of qualities for our next leader.

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Submitted by PaydayLoanAdvocate (not verified) on 10/22/08.

The eyes of the American nation were fixed upon
Hempstead, New York, on Wednesday, October 14th, 2008, for the third and final U.S.
Presidential Debate. The Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, of Illinois, went
into the debate with an eight point lead, and he was indeed content with it.
The Republican candidate, Sen. John
McCain brought it hard to his opponent, challenging his expertise,
character, judgment and proposed policies. Obama’s position on
the economic policies of the last eight years was far more
critical than McCain’s, though he maintained that he is “not President Bush.”
Both pledged that they would make cuts in the federal budget, McCain
pledging to enact an “across the board spending freeze,” and
take a hatchet to some programs whilst using a scalpel on others. Obama’s
take was to “go through the federal budget page by page, line by line”
in order to cut out those programs that are dysfunctional. Both of the candidates
pledged to bring the change that America needs, but what does that
mean? For instance, many politicians want to do away
completely with the payday loans industry.
Should they succeed, it will mean the end of the freedom to choose for the
consumer, and the triumph of certain interest groups (the banks and credit
unions, who have gotten themselves in enough trouble already) over the freedom
of we, the American People.

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