CLEVELAND - Senators John McCain and Barack Obama squared off last night in Mississippi in the first of three Presidential debates and had a surprising outcome.Even Steven.
Both men acquitted themselves well, each displaying a keen knowledge of the key issues that this country faces, most notably the economy and the war as well as foreign policy. McCain, with an enormous edge in experience over his rival was expected to excel, but both his sharpness and focus were perhaps a surprise. The Republican senator had threatened to not attend the debate just two days prior in a supposed effort to help assist the Bush Administration in reaching a bailout deal to help the nation's plummeting economy.
Obama, a relative novice by comparison displayed coolness under fire and in spite of consistently uttering the words, "Senator McCain is right...," frequently underlined the older man's flawed agenda and paralleled his policies to that of the incumbent Bush, whom many in the U.S. hold responsible for the near-catastrophic state of the countries' financial industry.
With Obama leading in recent polls, the fact that the two men battled to a standoff serves as a pseudo victory for the Illinois senator, particularly since he was supposed to be the "inexperienced newcomer" to McCain's "thousand years of experience."
I liked the fact that after 90 minutes of a sometimes heated and intense battle, the two candidates remained just as conciliatory as they were going in.
There wasn't much mystery or anything new in this debate. That's why the real treat's going to be watching Gov. Sarah Palin crash and burn in her V.P. debate with Sen. Joe Biden next week.
Ya gotta love it!
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