Saturday, September 27, 2008

Debate 1, Post 1

Smooth sailing for Obama until debate arrived in Iran -- chicagotribune.com

"For most of the debate Friday night, Sen. Barack Obama was the one who presented himself as presidential and strong. And Sen. John McCain appeared to be the guy who was wavering.

Then came Iran.

That's when Obama's mouth dried up, and he appeared to be standing alone at that terrible border between presenting yourself as presidential and dealing with that knock on the door in the middle of the night, with the aide outside saying, "Mr. President, the planes are in the air."

I'm not saying Obama failed, or that McCain won. If you're an Obama supporter, your guy won. If you're a McCain supporter, your guy won. We're stubborn Americans now..."

2 comments:

billy pilgrim said...

if there was a winner, i missed it.

they seemed a little coached not to stick their necks out.

Bob Harrison said...

I can't proclaim it one way or the other since I didn't watch it, but my prediction of no one making a major gaffe seems to have been borne out.