The DEBATE! (Malika Bridges)

On Friday, September 26, 2008 was the very first debate for the running candidates. It was located at the University of Mississippi in the South part of the United States. Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain were asked a series of questions about how to better or help the United States. Some of the questions were about Alkida, the economic crises, and about the war in Iraq. Both candidates got either two to five minutes to speak on each question. Al thought there was a lot of disagreements on many of the responses, all together is was not a very pleasing event.

In my opinion, the debate was rather on the boring side. It started off rather slow and the questions really did not catch my attention. I felt as if the questions that were being asked, were not what the people wanted to here. I over heard that the interviewer was the person that made up the questions. I think the questions need to be from the people because we are the ones who are voting, so we need more and better information on our candidates. I also think that when the questions were asked the, candidates did not fully answer the question. For example, the interviewer would ask about the war in Iraq, however the candidates would respond to the question but they would not even have the word "war" in the response. Instead of answering the question they would talk about how "America needs health care." Do not get me wrong, I would not mind having free health care for everyone, but i would like them to stick to the topic of the question. But I guess that is what the debates are all about, trying to get all of what you need to say in the debate because they know that a lot of people are watching it.

Over all i think Obama took that presidential debate. He seemed to have answered the questions a lot more better and his comes back were pretty good. I knew that McCain was having a hard time taking Obama come backs because, he always seemed to look down like he was embarrassed or something. However the presidential debates are not going to change who i vote for. I am still voting for change; President Barack Obama, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/us/politics/27debatecnd.html?hp

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/presidentialdebates/3090470/US-presidential-debate-Barack-Obama-and-John-McCain-clash-over-foreign-policy.html