Tonight, the two presidential candidates bucked heads and words in Nashville, TN for their second presidential debate. Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain battled it out for a little over an hour and a half while moderator Tom Brokaw tried to corral the two long winded politicians to under a minute per response.
Almost every response from each of the senators ran over, and quite frankly, I think they spent more time using other questions answer time to rebuttal the opponent than to actually answer the question at hand. Which is troublesome, but when the issues came down to it, both had a lot of finger pointing to do.
And now, for the subjects at hand.
As far as health care goes, McCain believes that Americans should get a $5,000 check for health care and that it is a requirement. He believes it is on the shoulders of the government, small businesses and businesses alike to help provide for health care.
While Obama believes that those whom already have health care will get an improved plan and those that do not will be put on the same type of health care that himself and McCain are being provided through the government. Obama believes, however, that health care is a right and that no American should be denied it.
The biggest issue, and of course the first covered, was the issue of the economy.
McCain believes that the economy will stabilize through buying out the houses that have triggered this house mortgage crisis, and this will help partially to stabilize the economy. He also has linked this to nuclear energy (I failed to see the quantum leap to this subject) by saying that through becoming energy independent on nuclear energy (and of course, drilling off shore) we will create jobs and therefore help to stabilize this shaky economy that we are now facing.
Obama believes that we are living in the twenty first century with a twentieth century health care policy. He wants to reform health care completely.
All in all, it wasn't exactly what I would call a successful night. There was quite a bit of jargon (language specific to a certain industry or culture) that a lot of these "middle class" people that they talk so much about don't really understand.
I personally have no idea what "ear marks" are. And I heard McCain through around "cronies" and "cronyism" quite a bit. I personally believe that it was an attempt to try and separate himself from the current Commander in Chief and crew, whom a lot of people call "Bush and his cronies".
McCain actually stumbled after what seemed like a well plotted accusation thrown in at Obama, "...Obama and his cronies - uh, colleagues..."
It was hard to follow, and I got lost in a lot of the back and forth between the two of them. We'll see if they can focus in for the next round.
The finale included both Senators walking right in front of Brokaw's teleprompter, and Brokaw had to stop and ask them to move before he could continue the sign off.
Here's looking to the future of America.
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The writers uneasiness at watching the debate comes through, not necessarily an easy thing for the reader to have to filter out.
Still, overall the column relates a pretty accurate portrait of the event.
It is told chronologically, which presents some problems, as the most important points probably were not in a chronological order.
Also, there were some areas where the writer jumped into the column unnecessarily:
"I personally have no idea what "ear marks" are. And I heard McCain through around "cronies" and "cronyism" quite a bit. I personally believe that it was an attempt to try and separate himself from the current Commander in Chief and crew, whom a lot of people call "Bush and his cronies."
The I personally is unnecessary, because, obviously, the writer is writing their opinion and observation.
A better phrasing might have been:
"What exactly is an earmark?"
What indeed...
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