The debate

[ashesofautumn]

I think both candidates did well enough for their positions, and I don't think there was a clear winner. I'm not great at judging that, but I don't think either of them really outshined the other last night

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[niav]

Obama seriously looked like he wanted to throttle McCain, and I don't blame him. I had to watch the debate with a pillow so I could give it a good punch every time McCain started giggling or just blatantly lying. It's strange, I disagree with many of Bush's policies but I don't feel this strong antipathy towards him when he talks like I do when I watch McCain speak. Something about McCain makes me feel very angry.

[ashesofautumn]

I think by now I'm just numb when it comes to Bush. Listening to him speak is kind of vaguely frustrating, but it's been too long to really get angry anymore. That, and his general butchering of words makes it easier to focus on how he can't speak than on the actual message he's pushing - McCain is more well spoken IMO, and therefore it's easier to think about the content of his words.

I've checked out FactCheck.org, AP's factcheck, etc. etc., and - well, surprise, two politicians lied about stuff. Too bad they couldn't put scrolling factcheck information on the bottom of the screen - would've been much more interesting to me than CNN's weird polling graph.