The Final Presidential Debate

I watched the Presidential Debate on ABC. I agreed with many of the questions that Bob Schieffer asked.  The questions seemed to strongly answer the questions that I had in my mind and made me feel that I knew more about what the candidates ideas. On one of the questions, Bob asked if McCain could help balance the nations budget and McCain strongly answered yes and gave many reasons why he could do so. Another good question that Bob said dealt with having to argue between the two candidates about what was said about each other. During the argument, McCain did a great job on getting back at Obama. Obama said that inappropriate things were yelled out about him at Palin’s rallies. So McCain went right back and said that very inappropriate things were yelled out about McCain so he had no room to talk. McCain argued that he knows how to save billions of dollars while Obama is trying to spend it. McCain said that Obama is lying to the Nation such as saying that in Obama’s ads, they are filled with lies about McCain and that they are very negative. On the other hand, O

bama also said that McCain was lying because 100% of McCain’s ads have been negative. Right after Obama made that statement, McCain quickly said that is not true so I feel that Obama is just trying to get back at him in a lying sort of way and I honestly don’t want a president that lies. Aka President Clinton. Speaking of campaign ads, I thought it was a great statement by McCain when he said that Obama has spent more money on negative adds than any political campaigner in history. That definitely caught my attention. Another question that Bob asked was “Why would the country be better off if your (Obama) running mate became president than McCain’s running mate. I liked the argument that both candidates had. I remember one thing that McCain said that was great about Palin was that she understands that Autism is on the rise so that without doubt caught my attention because my brother has autism.

 

            Now lets talk money and taxes! My attention was caught when McCain brought up the story about Joe the plumber (man in the picture) and how he had a small business. McCain clearly stated that if Obama were to get elected, Joe would have to pay higher taxes, which would make him suffer. But if McCain were to get elected then Joe would profit more without paying with higher taxes. Obama basically wants to spread the wealth around, which sounds like a good idea, but in reality it won’t work like that. I thought it was funny when Obama said “when I voted for tax increase for people making $42,000 a year, it was disputed by everyone because of a claim McCain kept on making. Even fox news kept on disputing about it which doesn’t happen very often for me.” Then McCain made a funny face which really made me laugh.  That was kind of off key to make a statement on how a news channels disputes on things because they do it every second of the day so it isn’t even a big deal. Obama was being kind of a hypocrite because he said he 100% agrees with not wanting to pay taxes but he feels that he wants the economy to exceed so that’s why he’s doing it. Obama in one statement also brought up how President Bush doubled the United States Debt. He proves a point but I wouldn’t blame it all on Bush. Along with that statement he also said, “McCain’s economic policy that he is purposing is eight more years of the same thing and it hasn’t worked.” That was kind of a boost for Obama but I still have faith in McCain.

 

I plan to vote for John McCain.  His delivery was well put and he out did Obama. I felt that McCain had more negative comments about Obama than Obama had of McCain because McCain found many flaws in Obama.