Thursday October 9, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

The dust is still settling on the presidential debate.
It seems clear that this go around there was no clear cut winner.
Obama or McCain, call it either way, whichever candidate won did not win my much.
But that's not the point.

Everyone agrees that John McCain needed much more than a small win, he needed a knock out and no such punch was hit or received.
But searching out and waiting for a punch in a debate is anti-climactic.
What we should be looking for is the new issues that a candidate raises, issues that will dominate and punctuate his talking points and stump speeches for the next few days.

McCain's mortgages aside, this debate was one long run on sentence - a series of lines anyone who has heard a stump speech has heard before.
No one changes their minds after watching a debate, but no one should feel bad for having taken the time to sit through a debate.

That's where both candidates failed.
America does not feel better for having heard this presidential debate.

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