Various Debate Pundrity

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For what it's worth, I think McCain probably won on points--but this was supposed to be his strong suit, foreign policy and his vaunted experience--and he needed to blow Sen. Obama out of Mississippi. That just didn't happen. At times, he seemed so angry it was almost, well, unpresidential. McCain basically told Vladamir Putin he's coming for him next, which is a bit worrisome. He repeated an often discredited lie about Obama voting to raise taxes on people making $42,000 a year. He repeated too many talking points from his acceptance speech. As pointed out above, the whole "I'm not looking at you" think is kinda odd. Still, his "Senator Obama doesn't understand" line, though, may have some wings and you can't doubt the foreign policy experience.

Sen. Obama, I would have liked you to have said "John's right" maybe not sooooo much. Nothing wrong with finding points of agreement, but the purpose of debate is to outline differences. Nice job tying him back to the Bush Admin., but I would like to have seen that happen more. Also, this whole Kissinger thing...don't take Kissinger's words and try and make them your own. Instead, ask, Sen. McCain why the architect of the Vietnam War and carpet bombing of Cambodia is one of his advisors!