Presidential (or Vice Presidential) Debate

**kainiac** · Last edited by kainiac on Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:34 pm; edited 1 time in total

Who watched it and thoughts on each of your respective candidates? All opinions open and welcome. So good and bad things from both sides tonight in my opinion.

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**geome** · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 478

Too much moaning from both parties.

Also, the people keeping the scorecards were idiots. I have no idea how half the minuses from both sides appeared. McCain got one before he had talked a single word, and then again when he sent his prayers to Senator Kennedy who's in the hospital.
They popped up halfway through the other debater speaking.

Learn to score.

Some of the references in the debate were completely inappropriate or didn't make any sense. The Holocaust reference, for example, made no sense whatsoever in context. (If Iran has nukes, there will be a Holocaust? What?) And then Obama was talking about "Nuclear Secrets" being sold to Syria at one point. "Nuclear Secrets" no longer exist, and decent nuclear physicist can make you a pretty decent bomb. It's just not that hard with modern technology. If you can refine uranium, you can make a bomb.

One every question, the candidates went on a tangent. Very few of the questions were answered at all. The economic crisis they both sort of blamed on government spending when asked. What? That didn't make any sense at all.

The comments on the Russia/Georgia conflict were not well done, either. Both sides had quite poor discussion on that topic.

I think the questioner and the candidates were all far too powdered (make-up wise.) And also, the candidates were rude to the questioner ("We need to go on." " I know, too bad.") Seriously, show some respect guys.

I did like McCain's suit. I have a thing for blue suits (I totally need one.)
He gets kudos for that.

**Josseppe95** · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 1045 Location: Philadelphia

I forgot to watch it, who won?
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**inkjt510** · Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 1213

To the above poster, he said "Achmedinejad" when the real name is "Ahmendinejad." Obama actually said it too after hearing McCain say it a couple of times.

To be honest, this debate was terrible. It was a mudslinging bitch festival just like the rest of the election has been. Honestly I don't see how anyone can like one of these candidates more than the other since they are equally dumbasses.

I will give McCain props for being a courteous dumbass, though, at least he didn't interrupt Obama.
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**deadhead15** · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 675 Location: manteno, illinois

they both did horrible in my opinion. i am pretty sure we are going to get fucked horribly in the next four years no matter who gets elected, i prefer mccain if anyone though, mainly because taxes will be lower seeing he doesn't want universal healthcare (thank god)
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**Bedlam** · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 1444 Location: Gainesville, FL

I don't think this debate will really sway anyone either way. Obama backers will still back Obama, McCain backers will still back McCain, undecided will probably still be undecided.

I could talk about each point and type my ass off, but I'll just stick to one thing. I'm not sure why people seem to think talking to other leaders is such a bad thing, and McCain trying to make fun of Obama for doing it. If war really is a last option, then we have to use diplomacy first. Why not have the President speak directly to the leaders Iran/any other country we might go to war with? McCain's attitude is "you want to actually talk things out with other leaders? Haha at you, lets all laugh at you." Meanwhile the whole not talking to anyone we have disagreements with is the Bush policy that has failed miserably. Why is a diplomacy first action laughed upon? I just don't understand that...
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**bmwhiskerZ** · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 454

I found that there wasn't really a winner. Pretty boring debates.
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