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View Poll Results: Who won the presidential debate?
John McCain 13 35.14%
Barack Obama 24 64.86%
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Old 09-26-08, 10:42 PM   #1
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Default The Presidential Debate- Who won?

For a moment, forget whether you are a republican or a democrat, and who honestly won the debate?
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This is something of a redundant thread, but my answer remains the same

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=142535
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Old 09-26-08, 10:48 PM   #3
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McCain, and Obama are kind of strange in my opinion.:hmm: In reality, I think they are both incompitent.
Ya know now that I think about it. This poll should have a nither option. I think nither will be a good president.
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Even if you are a repub you have to admit that Obama took away a BIG McCain chance to gain the lead today and the remaining debates will only mean disaster.
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Even if you are a repub you have to admit that Obama took away a BIG McCain chance to gain the lead today and the remaining debates will only mean disaster.
Obama is biracial man who threw the woman that raised him (his grandmother) under the bus stating:

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"I can no more disown (the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.) than I can disown my white grandmother, a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
This bigot will toss the woman who gave her all to raise him under the bus to get himself elected. Wright is a racist who earns money from making false statements about whites and America, and still, people want to vote for BHO....
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Old 09-27-08, 07:09 AM   #6
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I think it was more a tie.

Both McCain and Obama came out strong. Each one kinda fudged some facts, but each was able to state their positions clearly.

I think that McCain was a bit more nasty but it was a debate after all.
I think that Obama spent too much time talking about the past and not the future.

I thought some of the questions about the current economic issue were a bit unfair as Obama clearly stated that neither of them has seen the final draft because there is no one single final draft. It is still being worked on.

But overall, I don't think either candidate messed up or especially shined.

It was a good first debate. I think it was a tie.

Now that both sides have shot their main political loads, let's see what they will talk about in the next debate. The second debate may give more information than the first.

Of course the VP debate will be popular just for the entertainment value. I imagine more people will watch that train wreck than watched this debate.
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"I can no more disown (the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.) than I can disown my white grandmother, a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
And how is this "throwing her under the bus" (what ever that means).

It sounds more like being totally honest. I loved my Grand Parents. My grandfather was a racist. I did not like him being a racist but I still loved him as my grandfather. He was a good hard working man who took care of his family in very very hard times.

But he made disparaging remarks about Italians (especially catholic Italians). But he still was my grandfather. He was not perfect, nor did I agree with everything he said.

Did I just throw my grandfather "under the bus"?

Obama is talking about how much his grandmother loved him but that she confessed an irrational fear and made racial remarks. But despite these facts, he loved her and respected her.

Honesty about his grandmother. Is this really bad?

Should he have lied about his grandmother? Is that what you wanted?
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