And The Winner Is: McCain

Did you watch the Democratic debate last night? I did. Hillary won it. Obama looked weak to me, stumbling over his words, much on the defensive over his controversial relationships with former terrorists and racist pastors, his elitist comments about working-class Americans, his non-support, support of gun rights, and well, a half-dozen other things. Sure, Hillary was weak too, but Obama, he looked positively “Nixonish.” Did he shave?

Granted he will have time to hone his skills by the time he debates McCain - if he debates McCain - but he has had more than a few debates so he should have done better in my opinion. Then again, this was the first debate where I actually saw them hit with hard questions they way they should be. Charlie Gibson sounded positively conservative last night. And George Snufflelufagous was pretty good, too. I am sure neither of these two guys are friends of the left today.

But the real winner was McCain. Who, unless he has some big gaffe, is going to wipe the floor with either of these two.

Also a live blogging debate on the debate. It’s interesting.

UPDATE:

Here’s a good analysis of the debate and the Democrat’s position at this point. I agree with much of it. And he’s right that they didn’t ask enough policy questions. Much Damn near all of the left is complaining whining about that today.

But then again, these two don’t differ much on policy, so what was to ask? It’s electability that matters now - policy comes later in debates with McCain. And I think this debate very much brought valid questions Obama’s electability to the forefront.

UPDATE:

To steal a phrase from Glenn Reynolds, “They said if George Bush was elected free speech would be restricted. And they were right. Only it’s the left calling for it and right after Obama is elected president.  Why how positively fascist of them.