As one of my astute readers mentioned – the media is definitely in the tank for Obama.  If you look at all the headlines today – they say Obama won it.  I watched that debate intently last night – in my opinion – no one won that debate last night – and the rest of us lost!  Here’s my take on it:

The debate was essentially broken up in to two parts – Economic policy and foreign policy.  I would have to say that Obama just slightly edged out McCain on the economics side -NOT because I agree with Obama on his plans – but – because he was indeed more poised, more collected, and more prepared.  He attacked McCain and he Bush administration consistently and McCain stood there like an idiot through the whole thing.  He never once made an attempt to put the blame where it really lies – on government and administrations of the past and present.  McCain allowed Obama to get away with some serious lies as it relates to this economic mess.  Obama’s plans actually scare the hell out of me – but – because McCain did nothing to support conservative economic principles and could not clearly demonstrate he has a grasp of economics and his energy plan absolutely sucks – I have to give that one to Obama.

However, once they turned to foreign policy, Iraq, Iran, and Russia – Obama was clearly outclassed.  McCain came on really strong and consistently talked over Obama – wouldn’t let him get a word in edgewise.  McCain proved that Obama is weak on war strategy, foreign policy, and not ready to be the Commander in Chief.  Obama made a huge mistake invoking Henry Kissinger.  I did the google search myself – couldn’t find it anywhere that Kissinger ever said he was in favor of heads of states coming together unconditionally.  McCain’s age and experience was his strongpoint here – and – the fact that he actually knows Kissinger.  I get what Obama was trying to say – but – as McCain pointed out – he is just flat out wrong.  Obama started to spew some of the loony anti-war lefty lies – and McCain shot him down immediately.  I only wish McCain would have done the same during the economic portion of the debate.

Here’s what I learned from this debate:

Obama is very dangerous.  He speaks very well and he knows how to prepare for a debate.  He also knows how to control the language of a debate.  If you don’t shut him down immediately, he can dominate it.

Obama’s economic policy is wrong for this country.  He refused to concede that he will not increase spending even after Lehrer kept prodding.  He will advance socialist policies and entitlements at our expense.

Obama’s energy policy is also wrong for this country.  He is still sticking to a 10 year blueprint – that will be absolutely impossible without nuclear power and without increasing drilling.  He said that the U.S. only has 3% of the entire world’s energy resources.  I don’t know why McCain didn’t shoot him down on this.  Congress has imposed this on us.  We currently only PRODUCE 3% of the energy resources.  In fact, what we have in natural un-tapped gas, coal, and oil far surpasses any other nations on this planet (with the exception of Russia).  The fact is our government refuses to allow us to extract it.

Obama is not ready to be the CINC.  He clearly does not understand military strategy or our military.  When McCain pointed out that Obama said he would attack Pakistan and said it openly – how did Obama respond?  This is too funny – He said that he did not say he would attack Pakistan – he said that if Pakistan wouldn’t help out the U.S.  even if we knew exactly where in Pakistan Osama Bin Laden was – he would attack Pakistan.  Hmmm?  Just gotta scratch my head on that one.  Obama also proved he doesn’t get it when they were talking about national security.  McCain really did not elaborate exactly what needs to be done – but – he pointed out we have a long way to go.  What did Obama do?  He told the terrorists where our weaknesses are.  Gee thanks Mr. Obama – good going!

McCain – His policies scare the hell out of me as well.  He’s a global warmonger himself and would continue to advance that agenda at our expense.  He will tax that $5,000 health care benefit.  First – the inherent problem here is that he’s giving out $5,000 to people to get their own insurance.  Still sounds like an entitlement program to me.  While he is still leaving healthcare to the private sector – he’s using government and taxpayer money to advance it.

McCain does not have a grasp on economics at all.  He did not clearly lay out a solid plan or even solid conservative ideas regarding the bail out.  He’s really weak here.  It showed in that he could not provide a good counter to all of Obama’s attacks on him.  It almost looked as if he agreed with Obama on much of what he said.

McCain has a good energy policy – except – he needs to expand that plan to include drilling and natural gas extraction in Alaska.  I agree, we need to take away the subsidies from the ethanol producers.  Ethanol does not work as promised.  The only thing it is doing is reducing our food supply.  The price of gas continues to rise even though ethanol is being forced on to we consumers at the expense of our engines.  Ethanol is going to cost us in more ways than one.  But, he’s a global warming hoaxster – I fear he will push this agenda at our expense.

McCain is indeed a good choice for CINC and would be a good leader as far as the GWOT goes and as long as our enemies are concerned.  I liked the idea of a coalition of democratic countries handling Iran.  He wants to sidestep the U.N. because of the interference coming from Russia and China.  Obama wants to include Russia and China and continue working through that failed organization called The Useless Nitwits.  This proved to me that Obama is beholden to a global community as far as our national security is concerned.

So – who won this debate?  No one.  It was a tie.  Regardless of what the media says – we the people are smart enough to see through that smokescreen.  If we take an honest look at what happened during that debate – neither candidate actually lost that debate – only portions of it.  Based on both of their proposed ideas and their ideologies – regardless of who becomes president – we the people will lose out one way or another.  Obama proved he’s a socialist and McCain proved he’s a liberal.