McCain Will be Crushed
The third debate cinched Obama's landslide. Here's what I wrote in the Financial Post: It's all over but the crying The only "victory" the Republican...
The third debate cinched Obama's landslide. Here's what I wrote in the Financial Post: It's all over but the crying The only "victory" the Republican...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain runs the gamut from rebellious teenager to grumpy old man without ever pausing at the stage of mature adult.
Dave Winer | Posted 05.25.2011
It's time to back off the precipice, Ms. Palin and Mr. McCain.
Howard Schweber | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's answer to the first question of the night was fine -- anodyne, uninspiring, reasonable, and utterly uninspiring.
Terrence McNally | Posted 05.25.2011
We all know about the difference between the responses of those who listened to the first Kennedy-Nixon debate on the radio versus those who watched it on television. I did both last night and the same was true.
Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama has erased lingering doubts that he is ready for the Prime Time Presidency, while McCain raised more doubts that he has the energy or interest in the job.
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 05.25.2011
If the people of this nation cannot tell the difference between presidential behavior and a sick and angry little man, then we're in more trouble than we are with Bush. Get a grip John. You're boring.
Phil Plait | Posted 05.25.2011
Planetaria show us the beauty and grandeur of the Universe, and shouldn't be cynically relegated to being a political bludgeon used to score cheap points.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011
In the course of the debate, McCain was outclassed, outgunned and outrun, time and time and time again. Obama's performance was so commanding that he barely noticed a petulant McCain.
Nick Douglas | Posted 05.25.2011
My God, does he realize how much gas it will take to drive to the moon?! — michael
Jon Raymond | Posted 05.25.2011
Last night's debate came close to a Donald Rumsfeld press conference: "As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know..."
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
At the end of the debate, Brokaw asked McCain to get out of the way of his Teleprompter. He might as well have been speaking on behalf of the future: Senator McCain can you please get out of the way so we can get on with it?
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011
They say that Sen. McCain's strong suit is the town hall debate. If this was, in fact, Sen. McCain's strength, he might as well go home. Sorry... homes.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama spokesman Bill Burton writes: According to the transcript, mentions of "middle class" Obama: 4 McCain: ZERO* * That's a repeat from the fir...
Mary Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011
The body language and other nonverbals put Obama decisively over the top, because it said more about the character issue for the two candidates and their wives than anyone's verbiage.
Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. McCain failed big time in that most basic principle of bipartisan leadership: attributing inherent worth to his equal from the opposite side of the political spectrum.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
It was clear tonight that Barack Obama has a far superior understanding of the moving parts of government and American society than John McCain ever had.
Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011
Boooring. Yawn. Anything new? "That one?" That's the big controversy of the night? Do we miss Sarah Palin so soon?
Robert Shrum | Posted 05.25.2011
If the question of the first debate was whether Obama would pass the threshold on national security (he did), the reality of this debate is that McCain didn't pass the threshold on the economy.
Paul Reiser | Posted 05.25.2011
Well, for a town-hall meeting, I sure didn't see a whole lot of 'town." A couple dozen of over-lit, under-whelmed people who got free tickets. As a comic, I have to say, that really looked like a tough house.
Erica Jong | Posted 05.25.2011
Why are these debates so incredibly boring? Is it McCain telling us constantly he is our friend while he grimaces in a way that is friendly to no one? Or is it Obama keeping his cool despite all the idiotic lies and provocations?
Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama missed an opportunity to explain that the health of our nation's citizens cannot be held hostage to a corporate profit motive.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
For me, the more worrisome moment of the debate came when McCain told a young, black questioner, "You've probably never heard of Fannie Mae."
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
This was supposed to be the "domestic policy" debate. Yet there we were once again talking about raids on Pakistan and defending Israel. Brokaw and the organizers let down the American public.
Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011