Post Debate Video Roundup: What did you think?
Here is a post-debate roundup on last night’s presidential debate. If you missed the debate, you can see the full video of presidential debate here. So, what did you think? Was there a winner? Did you like what you heard? Can one of these candidates fix our economy? What about our healthcare system? The war? Let me know what you think in comments.
Reviews are in on the McCain vs. Obama Debate…
Obama strikes back on McCain’s Iraq policy…
Is Healthcare a Right or a Responsibility?
Joe Biden on NBC’s Today Show…
Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann on the debate…
CNN Post Debate…
If there is one thing that really gets under my skin, it’s John McCain referring to EVERYONE as “my friends” – It feels condescending to me. Last night he said, “My Friends” twenty times….
McCain seems to be a little ADD trying to answer this Environmental questions…I do like what Obama had to say.
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From The Mahahblog…
Flipping back and forth between CNN and MSNBC, it seems on the whole a consensus is forming among the bobbleheads that this debate was not a “game changer.” McCain needed a “decisive win,” Wolf Blitzer says, and he didn’t get it.
McCain was less dismissive of Obama as in the first debate — I don’t believe he said Obama “didn’t understand” this time — but he still seemed condescending, and I don’t think this is helping him.
Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama provided enough direct answers or personal, emotive moments during Tuesday night’s debate, according to three audience members who posed questions to them, though Mr. Obama won quite a bit of goodwill by staying afterward to shake hands and sign autographs while Mr. McCain left.
MyDD…
A few initial impressions. First, and most important, John McCain failed to make the most of this opportunity — one of his last — to fundamentally change the direction of this race. Nothing, and I mean nothing, occurred tonight that will put McCain back in the driver’s seat of this campaign, let alone help him retake a lead.
Beyond that, McCain had some serious optics problems during the debate. McCain’s lurking in the background was truly Cheney-esque, and that’s just not a good likeness for the GOP nominee. And McCain’s extreme derisiveness towards Barack Obama, unwilling to call him by name, instead only calling him “that one,” seriously undercuts the notion that McCain can be a cool operator on the world stage. Note also that Obama’s jokes did connect with the audience — he got a nice chuckle towards the end of the debate when he said that Michelle could easily list all of the things he doesn’t know — while the only laugh McCain earned during all of his botched jokes over the course of the debate was from Tom Brokaw.
As for memorable exchanges, Obama speaking about his mother stands out in particular, though this retort to McCain, which Josh caught, was highly effective as well.
So. What did you think? Let me know in comments.
