Debate III: Draw
October 16th, 2008 at 12:15am Chuck Sweeny
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why John McCain played to his party’s conservative base in the third debate, as if he were running in a Republican primary election.
It’s late in the game, and this is the time when presidential  candidates talk to the middle of the road voters who make up the majority. Barack Obama did that, but McCain repeated the GOP mantra: cut all taxes and, oppose abortion in all cases. That’s not playing to the middle.
Overall, I thought McCain did a better job than in the first two debates, attacking Obama on several fronts, including “If you’d wanted to run against President Bush, you should have done it four years ago,” in response to Obama’s penchant for painting McCain as Bush III.
McCain looked grumpy and impatient, as he has in the other debates, and annoyed that he has to face Obama. No doubt about it, Obama will raise taxes. But McCain will, too, by taxing health care benefits, a point made well by Obama.
Probably this debate was a double for Mccain. But he needed a home run.
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1. Bryan | October 16th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Sure don’t know what debate you watched last night, but that is certainly not what I saw! I saw McCain go on the offensive and I thought he blew Obama away in this debate. He lost the first two by a landslide but I thought he won this one by a landslide and so did the newscasters on cable tv and the networks!
2. shawnnews | October 16th, 2008 at 5:57 am
True or false, Obama’s campaign has successfully turned this race into a referendum on the Republican policies of the past eight years. Since he is apparently leading in the polls, it appears a majority of voters are willing to make the conservatives benchwarmers for the next four years. For McCain to chase their support rather than the support of swing voters who might be strong on defense, is his own miscalculation. I think another one of McCain’s failures is that he selects people in his campaign who undermine him like Carly Fiorina. She said that McCain souldn’t run her company, Hewlett-Packard. Even Sarah Palin’s media appearances have made people skeptical of her qualifications for national office. This once again shows that McCain seeks the wrong advice and the wrong subordinates.
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