I would like to state that I am in support of John McCain so this may be reflected in my assignment. Personally, I learned very much from the debate. I saw that McCain has much more experience and much more evidence to back his claims, while I saw that Obama is a very good speaker. This may be to Obama's advantage because he speaks with more of a flow and acts a little less tense, but I have to say that i hope people do not vote for him for those reasons. If you listen to John McCain, he proves to be more ready to answer questions and has more ideas that back his claims. McCain's big idea is to control big spenders and this is very important in our economic crisis. He is aware of who is doing the bad things and vowed to veto bills that are unneccessary to the United States. Obama talked about lowering spending but then about giving everyone health care and producing more types of energy that will cost billions of dollars to become successful.
In what I heard from news station 1130 WISN, they basically said that the whole time McCain was putting Obama on the defense. McCain had hard evidence, like of bills he had signed that now he is going against, and Obama was trying to defend himself. They also said that it was clear that on the foreign policy issue, McCain has much more experience and that the issue on the economy seemed to be a draw, even though people who were polled shortly after said that Obama won the debate overall. This was a good radio station because it was in the middle and did not have much of a biased opinion.
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I agree that McCain does have more experience and I too am leaning toward him, although he made me a little nervous when he was answering his questions. He seemed very nervous and uptight whereas Obama seemed like nothing could bother him. Experience is always a huge plus but public speaking is something that every presidential candidate should possess.
The problem that I have with Senator Obama is his universal health care system. How do you plan on paying for every citizen in America to have health insurance Senator? Don't think it is going to be coming from the tax payers, now that we have to bail out the wall street companies for a mere $700 Billion! I also did not like how the candidates did not really talk about keeping jobs in the US and creating jobs in the US, as a country in the 21st century we no longer have any equity because we import everything and we don't have the manufacturing industry that we once had. If this country would tell all of these other countries that we import from thanks but no thanks we like to employ our own people we would not have the need for universal health care. If you want universal health care move to Cuba. This country is in an economic crisis and will be for the next 50 years trying to pay back the $700 billion we barrowed from countries around the world therefore we cannot afford it.
Aleternative energy is a great concept but right now that is all that it is, a concept. Until the technology is available we need to drill offshore and we need to drill in Alaska. Having been to Alaska and seen it's beauty oil companies would need stratigic plans for there drilling and they should be limited to the areas where they can drill in case there was a spill. We need to limit our independence on foreign oil. Like I stated before lets keep our money in our country. If we keep money in our country and not give it to all of these other countries maybe we can get out of this economic crisis faster then originally thought.
Before I comment I should say that I am in support of Obama, but I try to be as in the middle as I possibly can be.
As for the debates, I would say that for the most part both men came out of it looking good. I do think that both men looked more comfortable answering certain questions, specifically McCain when answering questions of foreign policy and Obama when speaking about the economy. I think that epitomizes what both men are about, McCain about foreign affairs and Obama about the economy.
After this debate, I have to say that I do like McCain more than I did before. He did look much better answering foreign policy questions than Obama did. I don't, however, agree that McCain had Obama on the defensive most of the night, because I feel that Obama made good responses to some of the claims McCain made, and vise versa. Like I said earlier, I think that it was more of a draw than a clear win for either candidate.
In response to the post above, I don't see how creating more jobs would decrease the need for health care. Also, there is, and never will be, any way that we can just stop importing goods. Since this countries inception, we have imported, first from Great Britain, then expanding to other countries. It is because of importing that we have a lot of the goods and luxuries that we have today, and there is no way we could just stop that without serious repercussions.
As for the health care, a lot of people could actually go to work if they had health care, and weren't sick. Many of the people who do not have health care can't go to work because they are caring for their sick children. It becomes a vicious circle, without money they can't care for their families, but they can't leave them for fear of sickness and worse.
The other thing that you say is that alternative energy is a great concept etc. Well, that is the thing. We need to invest in the concept to actually make anything happen. Without money for research, we will become more dependent than ever on oil and seep further into a depression. I don't have answers to any of the problems we as a county have, But I feel like if we are struggling with the same concepts for years, its time to change something. I like to see the candidates actually talking about their solutions to the problems, because at least they are trying to solve them. I agree that with the current economic crisis maybe some of the ideas that are put forth aren't the best, but at least both candidates aren't ok with the status quo.
In my opinion the debate was a stalemate. The candidates made a lot of points but there was no clear cut winner. Obama is definitely the better speaker, and I agree with Kellie that this should not be the deciding factor.
Obama was on the defensive several times, but then again so was McCain. This was not a one sided fight. It was an interesting back and forth battle. Both candidates have good ideas, it’s just too bad we can't combine them into one. McCain and Obama danced around questions, but that's expected, they're politicians.
Now onto the issue of health care. When health care spending equals 16 percent of our GDP, there is a problem. Something needs to be fixed. Health care fraud, inflated prices and the American diet are just a few of problems. We spend more on health care than any other nation. Many other industrialized nations have universal health care, why can't we? I agree that it will be difficult especially with this bail out, but we need universal health care. Our great leaders should have already figured it out.
I hope that the candidates will talk about securing jobs in America. I think kl was referring to outsourcing, which is another problem. Sending jobs to other countries for cheaper labor is hurting our economy. If Americans filled those jobs it would help our unemployment rate and our economy.
Alternative energy is not just a concept. It is very real. Nuclear, solar, wind and hydroelectric energy are all real and need to be utilized. I don't have to explain that the oil prices are putting a strain on this country, everyone knows that. It's time to invest in alternative energy, and invest in our future.
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