Scoring the debate [Live blogging]
Tonight's debate scored by me.
Q 1: How do you feel about the financial bail out package.
Barack: 9. Good answer.
McCain: 5. Lame.
Q 2: What do you think of the plan.
Barack: 6. He says he warned against this disaster. A bit lame in that he blames Republicans exclusively.
McCain: 8. Better.
Barack (followup): 8 articulate.
McCAin (followup): 5. Cliches.
Q 3: What should we do about government?
McCain: 7. Earmarks are evil. Obama is part of the problem. Very scripted.
Barack: 4. Earmarks are abused but the total amount is $18B while McCain wants to give money to the wealthy. Oh wah. Class warfare.
McCain: 8. Fired up. Barack loves to spend other people's money.
Barack: 7. Class warfare. The rich are evil.
McCain: 8. The rich pay most of the taxes. Outsourcing is caused by having high taxes in the USA. What is Obama's definition of "rich"?
Barack: 8. $250k. Besides, the rich have loopholes.
McCain is getting annoyed.
McCain: 9 Obama talks a good talk but in reality, Obama is full of crap (basically).
Q 4: What would you delay first to pay for the bail out?
Obama: 8. Highest priority is energy independence. Rest is scripted junk.
McCain: 9 Cut spending. That's his priority.
(So when is foreign policy going to be brought up?)
Q 5: (followup) Yea but what are you going to cut?
Obama: 8. We do have to get spending under control and make government more transparent.
McCain: 8. Spending freeze.
Obama: 4. Nuanced bullshit.
Q 6: (followup) Look, what precisely will happen because of this giganormous financial bailout in terms of your budgeting??
Obama: 5 More nuanced bullshit leading into lame class warfare stuff.
McCain: 8. Yea, CUT spending.
McCain doesn't make eye contact minus 2 points for him.
Obama: 7 Mcain votes same as Bush 90% of the time.
McCain: 9. Oh please.
Okay, finally get into foreign policy.
Twittering here.
Overall, I'd say Obama had the edge but both did pretty well. McCain not looking at Obama is going to haunt him though.