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Obama was clearly comfortable in this arena, whereas McCain appeared to not know exactly how to handle himself, his pacing and beneath the surface irritanlity showed through. His "funny" jabs wre not seen as funny they were seen for what they were meant to be a manner in which to inflame Obama. Thankfully, Obama rose above it and stuck to the the topic at hand.

Obama was cool and predicable and came across with ideas, wheres McCain fell back into story telling and his history of military service one to many times. I just cannot see McCain as the steady hand on the tiller

" THAT ONE " Total disrespect, this man Mc Cain, is out of it to The President of USA. He is too angry, can't connect with the real voter's. He has no message to give, just attack, attack and attack. This is coming from a man who said " I will run a clean campaign, the people want it and I'm going to give it to them"
I'm a independent voter, I'm voting for Obama/Biden ticket!

That was one snoozer of a debate. Very boring. Bring back Biden/Palin. Anyway, I still can't believe Obama said going into Iraq showed bad judgment, when Biden was one of the biggest advocates of the war. Also - what's the deal with McCain and the proposal to buy mortgages to help distressed homeowners? A bit out of "left field," right? Here's an interesting take: http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/2008/10/out-of-left-field-mccain-wants-feds-to.html

When did "sound bite" become "sound byte"? For some reason, this year several journalists are spelling "sound bite" as "sound byte"? Is this a generational thing? What used to mean a sound "bite" from a larger spoken "meal" is misheard by the digital generation as a "byte," which is the smallest unit of digital information? Are you implying that the "sound bytes" of 2008 are somehow different in kind than the "sound bites" of previous elections going all the way back to the 70s?

There were two winners in tonights debate: 1) Barack Obama picked up another 2% of the 10% who have not yet decided on their choice for being presidential, tough on terror, and sensibly non-ideological. 2) Bob Barr, the Libertarian, who picked up 2% of McCain's conservative supporters who peed their pants when McCain called for the government to buy "upside-down" mortgages and reissue them with the current reduced valuation to people who were imprudent enough to buy an overpriced house in the past 7 years. That is the most socialistic proposal I've ever heard from a Republican, ever. Not even Lincoln Chafee was that socialistic.