We will be covering the first presidential debate in Mississippi tonight. The video and a transcript of the debate between presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama will be included on this post when they become available.
McCain Obama Debate
The question up in the air right now seems to be if there will be a debate tonight. I’m guessing that there will be a debate.
It was of interest to me that as the economic crisis our country is facing started coming to a head McCain chose to go to the Senate and do his job and Obama chose to make a statement and spoke of the necessity for ‘the people’ to see him and hear him. What was particularly interesting was the fact that what he was doing this week was sitting in a suite of hotel rooms in Florida studying and practicing for the debate. This instead of doing the work of the people.
Worse yet for Obama, there is some question as to whether the debate will be on foreign policy as originally planned, or on the economy so that it will be relevant to the current crisis. If that is the case, then all of Obama’s studying the past week will be for naught.
There will be an active discussion at Right Pundits and, of course, we will discuss the debate here. The video and transcript will be included below.
McCain Obama Debate - Video
** This is a placeholder video which will be updated after the presidential debate.
McCain Obama Debate - Transcript
**Transcript will be included here as soon as it becomes available.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Ha, Ha, Ha!…McCain is eating up his own words about ’suspending’ his campaign!
Where is McCain’s Grand standing and straight talk?
It looks like his campaign strategy is pull a stunt every week.
By the way, it seems that most republicans are no longer putting their name under the ‘Republican party’ name but rather ‘GOP party’!
Is McCain one of them?
September 26th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Check out this video of John McCain talking about his debate strategy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0iIN1OSYSQ
September 26th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Mccain is caving in to Obama. What a “maverick.” First of all, he showed that he is incompetent when HE thinks HE is needed in “Warshington,” and then does nothing and says nothing. His grand tactic by him and Bush and Rove backfired and simply revealed that he is incapable of winning this election, even with the help of everyone on his side.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
This has made McCain-Palin look VERY bad, it prooves he was playing games the whole time. After the reaction McCain got he knew it would end his campaign if he didn’t show for the debate. And now after seeing everyone’s negative reaction towards him he wants to show-up all of the sudden. Funny how McCain had Bush help him out to by trying to get Obama to suspend his campaign, nice try McCain, America is not stupid. He has offended all Americans with his lame political stunts and attempted strong-arming. That and Palin is why his campaign is sinking faster than the Titanic. McCain has proven to America he is nothing but a shameless coward who has no respect for the people of this country. I bet you that they have Palin locked in a room studying her butt off for this debate, except I don’t think her Junior College experience belongs in the same room as the Harvard grad that Obama is, no wonder she is so dumb.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Ha, Ha, Ha!…McCain is eating up his own words about ’suspending’ his campaign!
Where is McCain’s Grand standing and straight talk?
It looks like his campaign strategy is pull a stunt every week.
By the way, it seems that most republicans are no longer putting their name under the
‘Republican party’ name but rather ‘GOP party’!
Is McCain one of them?
September 26th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
No need to attend or watch the debate. Apparently, McCain already won:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/09/mccain_wins_debate.html
McCain’s plan to win a debate: Buy ads that say so…. Smart, if we were stupid.
September 26th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
is true that obama wants to increase the number of Hi visas!!????
September 26th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
for every bailout dollar they pay, they should stop one H1-B visa in return and give the jobs back to U.S citizen.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
McCain clearly won on substance. All Obama ever has is rhetoric (very defensive rhetoric in this debate). The average person (that doesn’t understand the issues) will like Obama and people that understand the issues will like McCain.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:51 am
I think Mark White’s confused. The average person that understands ALL of the issues will vote for Obama, the people who don’t understand the issues, either because they don’t have the intellectual capacity to analyze them themselves or they just accept Republican rhetoric, will vote for McCain. Ten days ago, McCain still didn’t “get it” about the dire straits the economy is in. He needed to be updated by his handlers. Two hours after saying the economy was still strong he had flip flopped to the economy is troubled. He seemed like someone with Alzheimers. Ten days ago he felt regulation was not needed and now all of a sudden he’s changing his tune once again. God help us all.