Comments on: McCain, Obama clash over financial crisis

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:22:29 +0000

Obama sounded and looked youthful, strong, confident, quick-witted and with a vision for the USA. There are many challenges in the world and at home for the USA and countries and leaders take joy in a less and less influential USA with big problems of its own back home and abroad.

McCain’s big, saggy, baggy, droopy bassett-hound face and whiny voice do not inspire hope in me. Even if I were McCain’s age and I looked and sounded as he does like an old hound dog, (I know I will look like him one day, myself) I would still feel the same way. Obama’s performance inspires me and gives me hope. He may be right and helpful or he may be wrong and I will feel like a fool for voting for him, at least he gives me the impression that he and not McCain is ready to lead even though Obama’s short US Senatorial experience makes me somewhat nervous. At least Obama acts like he is ready to lead, and he has in Biden a seasoned and experienced US senator for VP. McCain looks like it won’t be long until he will need to let Palin finish his term as president for him.

By: Kari

Kari — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:48:31 +0000

I didn’t watch the debate itself, and while I don’t think it is logically possible for a person to ‘win’ a debate, it certainly seems Sen. Obama offered a better performance than Sen. McCain.

That said, I don’t think, from the article and other reading, that it was so much Sen. Obama doing well per se, so much as Sen. McCain doing really poorly. Sen. Obama had his fair share of idiotic comments, such as blaming the financial crisis on McCain, but they still don’t outweigh the idiocy of McCain’s brilliant forclosure-protection contribution.

Nonetheless, if the 365gay poll from a few days ago accurately represents the US population, most Americans don’t watch the debates with an open mind anyway.

Unrelated, on a housekeeping note, I wish the moderators were not all elderly white men. For a race that has been characterized by some as one of the most diverse in US history, the media has let me down by not injecting a dose of color or *gasp* a woman into the mix.

By: JohnM

JohnM — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:19:11 +0000

I totally agree with Chris Sullivan. Obama answered every question in a relaxed and confident manner, and explained why his policies would help get the country out of the Bush created financial crisis and Iraq mess, while nd improving our national security in the process. Obama also explained why McCains’s past votes on critical domestic and foreign policy issues led this country into our current huge mess, and McCain did not even refute these assertions. To be candid, McCain seemed like a defensive, egotistical old man. Hands down an Obama win in my book.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:39:01 +0000

Obama won this debate without question. No truly objective person can honestly assert a McCain win here. It appears that when confronted with serious issues, McCain/Palin offer no useful alternatives but instead resort to increasingly desperate rhetoric and innuendo to build their fragile case. McCain is no maverick – far from it. He is a gambler… and that is the one kind of personality we definitely cannot afford to have in the White House at this point in our history. I wasn’t sure how well Obama would do in this Town Hall style debate – but it appears, from virtually all the mainstream media polls, that Obama won handily.