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Taegan Goddard Calls It For Obama

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Debates, McCain

The editor of the non-partisan Political Wire thinks Obama won…big:

Tonight’s debate wasn’t even close. Sen. Barack Obama ran away with it — particularly when speaking about the economy and health care. Talking about his mother’s death from cancer was very powerful. On nearly every issue, Obama was more substantive, showed more compassion and was more presidential.

In contrast, Sen. John McCain was extremely erratic. Sometimes he was too aggressive (referring to Obama as “that one.”) Other times, he just couldn’t answer the question (on how he would ask Americans to sacrifice.) And his random attempts at jokes (hair transplants?) were just bad.

What did you think?

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One Response to “Taegan Goddard Calls It For Obama”

kranky kritter Says:
October 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
The only good new nugget goes to McCain, for suggesting a bailout of people holding unsustainable mortgages by having the government intervene and force a renegotiation of terms based on lowered valuations. I am not sure personally how financially sound an idea this is, but it felt like a vote-getter to me.

But I think Obama won again on demeanor and poise. I also think he hit it out of the park on healthcare by connecting with what the genpub thinks. He had one segment where my impression was GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL-GOAL-GOAL-GOAL-GOAL!

As I write this, the talking head on the tube behind me is saying that Obama was on defense all night and didn’t rebut McCain’s charges enough. I disagree there, as I think Obama seemed more presidential and was cagey enough not to waste time rebutting when he could instead connect with the GP with calm and reasoned answers. But I listened to the debate on radio, so I missed how it looked.

Even now, I still like both these guys. Good “debate.” (It’s really a joint press conference, isn’t it?)

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