On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Judah wrote: > Voters who are still "undecided". That likely means people who haven't > been paying any attention or are partisans who are lying about their > choice. I wouldn't expect the best set of questions. >
I'll bet there were far better questions that Brokaw passed on. Apparently they got 6 million questions from the Internet. That is not a mis-print. > > he flat out > question on Iran attacking Israel was a good one, I thought. McCain > answered it fairly well. Obama's answer was kind of weird. I liked his > strong statements about preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon > and he was unequivocal about the UN not preventing us from acting in > our own interests. But he didn't seem to actually answer the question > straight up, though what he did say seemed to make it fairly clear. I > just would have liked a "yes" or "no" in addition to the rest. > Great question. McCain gave a great answer, Obama flubbed a bit but recovered, I thought. > McCain's answer on the "Evil Empire" question was his best of the > night I thought. It showed a nuance he has frequently been lacking and > really struck me positively. > I like his last answer better, but this was also a good answer. > I thought that Obama's answers on the economy and healthcare were much > more solid than McCain's. I especially liked Obama coming out and flat > out saying "healthcare is a fundamental human right". Others may > disagree, but that is an unequivocal position that I like to see. > That's probably going to be a very popular position, but it totally fails to address the limits of health care. In nationalized systems, health care is rationed according to whatever rules the bureaucrats make up. In private care systems, health care is rationed according to who can pay. But all health care is rationed - it is not a bottomless well. I realize Obama's point about his mother; my sister went through exactly the same thing battling cancer. But the reality is that we can't pay for every procedure for every person. > > McCain's answer to the question of prioritization between health care, > energy independence and entitlement reform was bogus. > ....... At least Obama was able to prioritize them. > McCain's answer was a typical politician's answer, do it all, but I liked the fact that he specifically addressed Social Security and Medicare reform, acknowledging that we can't continue to provide the benefits we provide today. Obama ran from that question like it was a demon from hell. He clearly wanted no part of an association with cutting entitlements- that was completely bogus. For a guy who promises to change Washington, that was a very typical BS inside the Beltway response. These programs will eat every federal tax dollar by mid-century unless they are radically changed. He's playing defense, though, so I guess he decided to just dodge it and play it safe. > Overall I felt that Obama did better on healthcare and the economy, > McCain did better on foreign policy and it wasn't a huge advantage for > either of them either way. > It was a draw overall. McCain knows the issues inside and out and he demonstrated his competence and experience. Obama doesn't know every issue like McCain does, but displayed his trademark cool head, and he won plenty of points on the health care debate by relating it to people's lives. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:272988 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
