Saturday, September 27, 2008

I managed to make it through the whole thing!

I kid, i didnt mean to infere that it bored me, sure sometimes, but overall it wasnt terrible. All in all, i would give Senator Obama a 6.5 of 10. This is due to his somewhat lack of answering a question straitforwardly and avoiding the question in some cases, as well as a couple of his policies not entirely actually actually saying how he's going to accomplish them, for instance the housing crisis, instead of saying what he was going to do to stop foreclosures he basically stated, "im going to help them".

A high point of the debate for him was talking about communication with other nations, namely Iran and North Korea, while McCain basically didnt want to. He's absolutly right in saying that ignoring a country isn't going to accomplish anything, at least if we talk to them there's a chance improvements can be made. For instance when we and other countries finally decided to talk to North Korea about their Nuclear Program, a comprimise had been found and North Korea (at the time) decided to end its nuclear program in terms for decreased economic sanctions upon time.

As far as a low point is concerned I would have to say it was his dealings with Iraq. McCain had a much stronger arguing point in this area than did Obama. His arguing point is that since the surge the mission in Iraq has become a victory waiting to happen, but leaving now would be like "snatching defeat in the grips of victory" and all the time we spent on Iraq would be wasted, only to have it return to the way it was. Obama though only had speculation about what could have happened if they had gotten out, and didn't have as many facts to back his position.

One position I did not agree with Barack Obama on was how he wabnts to deal with Pakistan, which involves a sort of invasion upon them if they dont start either dealing with the problem or allowing us into Pakistan. While yes we have to deal with the terrorist who find a safe haven there, if we invade Pakistan theres a significant chance the Government would declare war and then the US would have even more enemies to deal with in the middle east.

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