"daytripper" wrote in message
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Don't despair, your premise is likely flawed. I think most people were
actually wondering if Obama could match up in "Presidentialness" with
McCain,
and as far as that goes, Obama did just fine. He was certainly more
coherent
than McCain, who frequently struggled to keep a thread on track.

Indeed, McCain may have hurt himself when he started getting agitated and
resorted to filibustering the limited time, and making demeaning
statements.
And while I'm not a student of the whole "body language" thing, he came
off
looking like a white-knuckled stiff compared to Obama. Sure - he didn't
actually burst into flames, but as he sinks further in the polls, that
might
just happen in the next debate.

Anyway...according to the only *sampling* poll of those who actually
watched
the debate that I've found so far, Obama "won" the debate hands-down. But
the
greater point is, this first debate was supposed to play to McCain's
alleged
strengths in foreign policy. It definitely didn't...

Have fun, catch a bunch of feesh!



I still think they did about equal.

I do however think that McCain is pretty much really mad because he could
never get as far ahead in the navy as his father and hungers for a command
that he could never work his way into and the presidency is the only other
way

similar motivation (in part) to Bush's Iraq to emulate and avenge his father
for his middle eastern problems

mk5000

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Say something, say something
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