“The two men stood behind identical wooden lecterns on the stage of a performing arts center at the University of Mississippi for the first of three scheduled debates with less than six weeks remaining until Election Day.” - AP

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16 Responses to “1st Presidential Debate 9/26/08 - Open Thread”

1. San Francisco Liberal
   September 27, 2008 - 11:49 AM on September 27th, 2008

   I thought Obama did very well in his responses, kept his cool - and wasn’t overly long winded.

   McCain did “ok”, too, I guess…but he came across a little too agressive…looked a bit crazy, imho.

   CNN and a lot of other polls are saying it was a tie, with Obama looking good and McCain not really knocking anything out of the park like he kind of needed to.

2. Don
   September 27, 2008 - 12:27 PM on September 27th, 2008

   I thought Obama was figity, unprepared, and unpresidential. He fumbled for answers, looked totally unprepared and unsure of himself. On the other hand, McCain looked prepared, presidential and very professional. Come on Obama you need to better than this if you want to represent us! It would seem to me that if you are going to wear a soldiers bracelet you should atleast memorize his name???!!! Not need to look at it to see the name???!!!

3. BonBon
   September 27, 2008 - 04:02 PM on September 27th, 2008

   I guess it’s all in what you see. I thought McCains “craziness” SFL came from a basic disbelieve that anyone could be so naive and run for CIC. The Osama bin Obama man came across as unsure and if anyone had checked facts he stretched the truth and outright lied in some cases.

   His ’smiles’ looked sinister. On taxes it was disbelievable that he couldn’t say cutting spending was more important. On energy he couldn’t say nuclear power. It was pathetic.

4. Robert
   September 27, 2008 - 08:19 PM on September 27th, 2008

   I only saw about 15 minutes of it. But one thing I did notice about Obama: Occasionally he would be on a roll making a point and he would smirk and kind of talk out of the side of his mouth. To me that comes across as arrogance and condescension.

   Not surprised he couldn’t say nuclear power. He is absolutely, totally clueless when it comes to the energy situation. He talks about alternatives but he doesn’t have the slightest idea what that really means.

5. tamara hutchison
   September 27, 2008 - 09:15 PM on September 27th, 2008

   mccain looked ridiculous and kept fumbling. Obama did a great job explaining his positions

6. BonBon
   September 28, 2008 - 08:17 AM on September 28th, 2008

   Tamara, uh, uh, uh, uh, we could, uh, start, uh legislation for uh, energy alternatives, uh, all but uh, nuclear, uh power.

   Yeah, sure McCain fumbled. Oh no wait a minute that was the messiah Obama who couldn’t articulate a straight thought.

   Robert, I thought that smirk was arrogant as well. What a sap. I guess thats what happens when a person is worshipped by the left.

7. AKD
   September 28, 2008 - 08:49 AM on September 28th, 2008

   I’m not sure who came off as more articulate, though both sounded a thousand times more coherent than Bush ever did.

   Nobody knocked anything out of the park. McCain probably did slightly better on Natl. Security (though not quite as well as he was expected to); Obama did better on the economy (as expected). Viewers’ polls have generally given Obama the edge (though not by a lot). This is kind of a bad sign for McCain since this was supposed to be “his debate.” It wasn’t. I don’t think that we’ll see a bump in either direction, though.

   Again, I’m just glad to see that, regardless of who gets in, the country is moving to the left. This was the debate where McCain was farthest to the right on the issues–natl. security is where’s he’s closest to GWB. Moving into the domestic realm in the next debates, McCain’s similarities to Obama will really come through, though he’ll struggle to differentiate himself. Amnesty, anyone?

8. AKD
   September 28, 2008 - 01:00 PM on September 28th, 2008

   I have to admit, I’m really looking forward to the VP debate: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/09/27/2008-09-27_calls_rise_among_republicans_for_sarah_p.html

9. Robert
   September 28, 2008 - 05:12 PM on September 28th, 2008

   It will be Sarah the fresh, new up and coming force for change we can truly believe in, against old hack part of the problem Biden.

10. AKD
    September 29, 2008 - 05:23 PM on September 29th, 2008

    As long as she’s as adorably helpless as she’s been in her interviews — shades of Miss South Carolina — I’ll remain transfixed.

    I just hope that Putin doesn’t rear his head in Alaska….

11. Robert
    September 29, 2008 - 05:31 PM on September 29th, 2008

    Sarah Palin is far more articulate than Obama. And has more executive experience than Obama. In fact she is arguably more qualified than Obama to be POTUS. She is clearly a U.S. citizen, and Obama has never proven he is (that alone may disqualify him), and she could get a Top Secret security clearance. Obama couldn’t.

12. AKD
    September 29, 2008 - 06:04 PM on September 29th, 2008

    Plus, she can teach the nation how to use double-sided tape!

13. NY-David
    September 30, 2008 - 10:26 AM on September 30th, 2008

    The debate was a re-hash of what each has been saying for the last 20 months. The only cliff-hanger was to see if McCain was going to show up, or continue with the theatrics that he did in Washington.
    NY-David

14. locksalish
    October 5, 2008 - 07:21 PM on October 5th, 2008

    Does anyone else think the Refer-a-Friend bonuses being given out are (in-part) a means to get low level players leveled up in time for WotLK? Get them into the fray, more addicted and increasing the longevity of their subscription?

15. locksalish
    October 7, 2008 - 12:18 AM on October 7th, 2008

    I know this is a little off-topic but this video is truly relevant to anyone in the civilized world who has money, a home or any form of business.employment:

    http://www.squidoo.com/keating-economics

    How has this information not come to light before? I hope the media gives this the attention it deserves!

16. Robert
    October 7, 2008 - 04:50 AM on October 7th, 2008

    Foirhget the video, Lockalish. I heard one of the investigators on the Keating S&L scandal interviewed on the radio last night. This guy is a Democrat, by the way, and he said McCain did absolutely nothing wrong and in fact the investigative report recommended that McCain’s name be removed from the proceedings. The Democrats didn’t want only their names on it so they insisted McCain’s name remain as one of those investigated, even though McCain was all but officially exonerated.

    For Obama to use this in his campaign ads is an outrageous slanderous lie, and for that alone Obama shows he is not fit to be POTUS.

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