Debate Thoughts
by KevinOctober 8th, 2008
- Nothing earth shattering came out of this. Obama probably had a small win, but McCain certainly did nothing to help himself.
- “That one”? McCain really, really holds Obama in contempt.
- McCain’s plan to buy mortgages was an interesting moments in that 1)it is already in the bailout package and 2) it is a pretty clear signal that the Reagan Revolution/Washington Consensus model of economics is dead.
- Obama and McCain both had effective closings, but aside from that Obama was clearly the better person on stage. He answered more of the questions and was better at tying his answers into the larget theme of what his presidency would be like.
- McCain is not funny and he should no try to be — it really comes off false.
- Brokaw mostly sucked. He tried too much to keep them on schedule instead of using their obvious willingness to ctualy debate each other to try and lead the debate inot interesting territory. The questions he chose were re-hashes of the ones at the last debate and he too often used right wing frames in his questioning and follow ups. He did almost nothing to drag the candidates back ont the questions asked, either. At east he didn;t sneak in any McCain Ayrs talking points in the form of questions.
- Obama stating that health care was a right warmed this liberal heat. It is reassuring in the face of his cautious approach to heath care reform.
- The format was terrible. Can we please, please, please have a real debate sometime before the Cubs win a World Series?
