Debate

Well, amid all of the turmoil surrounding the first debate of '08, John McCain decided he had made a political blunder in saying he wanted to postpone the first debate. I believe everyone, including repubs will see this for what it truly was, a political stunt. I believe David Letterman said it best when he emphasized that even if there were a crisis, you don't 'suspend' your campaign, rather you allow your VP running mate to handle the campaign in your absence. I guess he truly doesn't believe her to be as 'qualified' as he would have us believe.

Now about the debate. I have tried to look at this through a bipartisan lens. I'm willing to put aside my biased feelings for a moment and say what I saw to be true. Obama looked like a calm, familiar, intelligent leader. McCain looked like a man who DESPISES Barack Obama, and frankly the middle class. (Not one mention of the middle class from Mc in this debate). Did anyone notice that as the moderator kept pressing to have them speak to each other, McCain NEVER would look at Obama. Even after the debate, when pictures were snapped of the two shaking hands, he was not looking at Obama.

Mr. McCain seems like a man mired in the past. He holds relentlessly to the Iraq issue, regardless of American opinion. (Sound familiar) As we have seen over the last weeks, the trickle down economic theory does not work, and yet he holds to the idea that if we make the rich richer, it will help the economy. He clings to the Bush ideals of foreign policy, that we need to ignore our enemies instead of holding dialogue. It seems to me this is how our world standing has slipped over the Bush years. I don't profess to know if Obama is right on every issue, nor if he will make a great president. I do know, however, that this debate was supposed to be McCain's strongest area, and he and Obama showed equal poise under the pressure.