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My observations...

John McCain hit Obama with solid body-blows on his Freddie-Fannie connections. John McCain has a better health-care proposal, sticking to nice free-market solutions (although I was troubled by John's overextended homeowner buyback, allowing those who failed to follow historical and correct buying rules to keep the homes they couldn't afford in the first place). And on foreign policy, Obama self-evidently was 'green behind the ears'. Nice to hear him admit it.

Uh-ah-bama. Where was his youthful vigor? He looked like a clueless automaton. Where John McCain spoke directly to the people, Obama was reciting his talking points line-by-line. He was boring, frankly. And who invented the computer? That's great, O! Al Gore invented the internet; according to Obama, DARPA invented the computer. What a maroon.

"Tonight, John McCain won the debate. He was the only man who demonstrated he had the independence and strength to take on everything that's broken in Washington and on Wall Street. John McCain had a clear plan for improving the lives of Americans -- keeping them in their homes through his American Homeownership Resurgence Plan. From Barack Obama, we heard half-truths and contradictions between what he says and what he has done. He said he supported offshore drilling but has opposed it for months. He talked about tax cuts but he voted for higher taxes 94 times and promises increased taxes on small businesses. He talked about reducing the size of government but has proposed hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending. Tonight, Barack Obama had an opportunity to level with the American people, but instead all we heard was more of the same."

Democrats cry about mudslinging...when that's all they've ever done. It's nice to see some mudslinging coming from the good guys for once. Obama, in this debate, slung first. And caught a face full on the return. But, John, where was the mention of Ayers, Wright, Rezko, the rest of the crooks, liars and black liberationists that Obama's collected in his short time in politics? (Sorry, I'm not counting his 'community organizing' stint as real political experience..that sort of Saul Alinsky gamesmanship is more radical than deserves the sobriquet 'political'.)

Oh, more lefty mudslinging...the left-leaning LA Times called Sarah Palin a monkey. What would happen if...?

Oh, speaking of mudslinging, and unfair playing fields, recall the kerfuffle over the missing Saturday Night Live video? Jake at PW's Pub found it living on a lefty blog, where they were crying about it's awful bashing of poor Democrats Geroge Soros, Fannie-grabbing Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi.

Remember, it had been yanked because supposedly Soros didn't care much for it...after all, he owns the Democratic Party, and how dare the little people at SNL insult him? It disappeared from YouTube.

I snagged rescued it and hosted it on my own account. It'll be up for...how long? Who knows?

Enjoy!

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Also blogging the debate...HotAir (Ed Morrissey opines

"McCain won, but he didn’t score a knockout by any stretch of the imagination. Is this a game-changer? I think not. It may help narrow the gap a little, but I think the two men are pretty evenly matched in these debates. I wouldn’t expect a knockout in the last debate, either."

I disagree, Obama lost because he lied. You can't give undue credit to lying liars, even if that's the norm in Washington. So much so the norm that lying is outstanding only if you don't.

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