The Last US Presidential Debate

Candidates Hit Hard at Final Presidential Debate
John McCain and Barack Obama have at it during their final presidential debate.
John McCain, sitting just a few feet from Barack Obama at the final presidential debate Wednesday, tried to recharge his campaign with a volley of allegations directed at Obama's honesty, judgment and empathy for tax-burdened Americans.

Obama calmly attempted to deflect every charge, accusing McCain of going negative in the final weeks of the campaign and distorting the facts about Obama's past associations and record.

The debate was far more combative than the previous two -- likely a reflection of the fact it was a key opportunity for McCain to halt Obama's growing momentum in the polls.

But although the recent economic turmoil seems to have hurt McCain's standing, the Republican nominee used the intimate format Wednesday to challenge Obama's economic ideas directly and rebut the Democratic campaign's central argument, that McCain stands for four more years of Bush administration policies.

"Senator Obama, I am not President Bush. If you want to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago," McCain said.
You decide who won the debate, at FOX
- Once again Obama has been challenged to answer some straight forward questions about his associations. They may have been former associations, we don’t really know. He didn’t answer the questions, but instead went on about negative campaigns and the like. There is a reason why Obama has not answered those questions, and it isn’t because he has a glass jaw. Obama won’t admit he has made a mistake. Obama doesn’t have any policy of substance, and so having made a mistake would be a cardinal sin.
Australia elected a policy free Prime Minister last year by name of Kevin Rudd. Mr Rudd has made some mistakes over the economy, and is compounding them with rhetoric inappropriate to the times. The result has been the Asurtalian reserve bank has lifted interest rates a few times this year, before dropping them last month, when none of the changes were required, except maybe, the drop.
The US will come to tears if, as is expected, Obama is elected president without a policy platform that has been vetted by voters.
Obama has made mistakes .. but are they in the past? - ed.