Political blog #2- Debate

   While watching the presidential debate on friday then after thinking about who I thought won the debate, I honestly could not come up with an answer.  Though out the whole debate I felt like Obama and McCain each talked more about what each one was going to propose and bashed each other more than answering the actual questions being asked.  Through out the debate the moderator kept mentioning to each candidate to look at the other person and each time it looked like they were just reading off the TelePrompTer.  It was pretty hard for me to actually determine a winner because i felt like the debate was so scripted and that the questions were not being answered.  To me the debate was like the usual debates where all that happens is bashing each other and also proving which one of their points are better and why.  I just wished the canidate's answered the questions and did not just read off their TelePrompTer.

The author of the blog I am following talks about how Obama won the debate and emerged as a canidate who was knowledgeable and unflappable toward McCain on Foreign Policy.  He says that Obama is better suited to deal with the foreign crisis and our economic hardships now.  The author then goes into saying that McCain won the debate on other certain situations.  He says that McCain earned a slight victory but nothing in the debate was a knockout blow.  He also states the way each one of the debaters showed different qualities of how they each mastered their parts of the debate. 

I think that some of the questions and answers i found interesting were about the financial situation that is going on in our country right now.  The reason i found this so interesting is because there was really not much time to figure out how to answer these, this is a topic is so new that it had to come from the heart and had to be a real honest answer of how to fix this.  

I thought the media covered the debate the way it normally does with the focus on the two debaters and the moderator.  I would have liked to see more shots of the crowd just to see how they were reacting to questions and answers. I don't really think there were any opportunities missed by the media or the candidates, I think overall it was a good debate but it was tough for me to chose my winner.

The article that I would have my argument gaged to is By Klein called "Obama wins debate on tactics and strategies."  My argument is that I believe that Klein flip flops too much on who he thinks won the debate.  He has arguments for both and makes them both pretty strong.  I think he needs to set himself to one idea and one decision and go with that.  

"Obama wins debate on tactics and strategies"