Obama clearly won tonight's debate. He performed calmly & coolly and rationally explained his positions and pointed out the substantial ways his plans are different than McCain's. He effectively made the point that the judgment made by Bush and supported by McCain, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, etc. was wrong; that we had no business invading Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein, especially when our top priority should have been sending more troops to Afghanistan to rout the Al Queda cells which lately have been re-forming and growing stronger.
McCain's tired response is: "Obama was wrong about the surge and won't admit it!" I say: "SCREW the surge, if the underlying occupation is illegal, unsupported by the folks back home, (and considering the original stated Goal was to remove Saddam as the despotic leader-for-life of that country was accomplished back in 2003); then who needs a surge? Draw down our troops; get them home with some leave and our thanks, and figure out who is the best trained and the most healthy to be able to serve another tour in Afghanistan. McCain tried his best to appear forceful, confident and friendlier, but overall, Obama's stage presence is just so much more inspiring.
Well, one more debate to go, and I'm confident Obama will do just as well, if not better. The polls are coming around commandingly in Barack's favor. It's his to lose at this point.
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