Debate Thought

McCain was having his strongest debate performance right up until the moment when he claimed to be the victim of negative advertising. From that odd moment he went on to say that he's proud of the people that come to his rallies, which includes people calling Barack Obama a terrorist. Then McCain hit on ACORN committing the greatest voter fraud in history, which is both outlandish and technically not true. (If ACORN is committing any fraud it's registration fraud.) He said that ACORN was threatening the fabric of democracy.

The story of the night thus far is that McCain seems like the reflective candidate who's looking back on the campaign and trying to piece together how things went wrong. Obama keeps steering the conversation back to the issues.

(Would be nice if he'd raise his voice at McCain when McCain keeps repeating lies, but then we'd have an angry black man moment. It wouldn't be worth it.)

Thursday, October 16, 2008