By Art Smith. Posted Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:33 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, 2008 Presidential Election Issues Analysis, Barack Obama, Economy, Featured, International Affairs, Iraq, John McCain, Leadership, National Defense, Pakistan, US Congress, US Treasury, War on Terror
This is Part 2 of the analysis of Friday night’s Presidential Debate. Part 1 was posted on Saturday.
Iran
Lehrer asked for a “reading” of Iran by the candidates. Are they a threat? Both candidates made it very clear that nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran was not acceptable.
McCain did a good job of highlighting both [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:15 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, 2008 Presidential Election Issues Analysis, Barack Obama, Economy, Featured, International Affairs, Iraq, John McCain, Leadership, National Defense, Pakistan, US Congress, US Treasury, War on Terror
Here’s Part 1 of my assessment of Friday night’s Presidential Debate. Part 2 will come on Sunday.
All I can say is, I was wrong. Jim Lehrer does want to be the next Tim Russert.
I will say, I did not sense any partisanship on Lehrer’s part, but he sure dug into follow up questions, including a [...]
It’s interesting that Obama would pick a Nazi death camp upon which to error in either the retelling or fabricating of a story to try to make a point that is oddly detached from the actual story line. And then unleashes a bad case of irony as well.
What Obama said:
I had a uncle who [...]