McCain and Obama hit by the economy in his first debate
* ‘The person who is more relaxed and provokes laughter is usually the victor’
* With an opponent so polite, McCain had it easy to take the steamroller
* Both candidates will discuss the upcoming Oct. 7 at Tennessee
OXFORD (USA) .- As expected, John McCain was imposed on the points to Barack Obama in the first presidential debate, but the surprise was the victory of Republican in an encounter in which 39 of the 90 minutes were spent, in a last-minute change to the discussion of financial collapse by running through the United States.
In theory, the economy, which should be addressed more extensively in the next debate, on Oct. 7, is competition from Obama. And the foreign and defense policy, which was devoted to the encounter this Friday for McCain.
Although this idea of a victory for McCain is, apparently, the idea of journalists and other self ‘experts’. The first polls conducted on the basis of calls received by the television networks CNN and MSNBC, and are therefore not reliable show that for the viewers of those channels, Obama won.
However, data from the audience of ‘Fox News’ conservative trend, giving the victory to McCain. In any case, unless one candidate to win expires, as did Reagan versus Carter in 1980, for example, what did not happen this Friday, the role of the debates is limited, and above all boils down to the undecided .
Clearly, these elections are for 18% of voters who still do not know by whom they will vote, which represented a major electoral treasure awaiting the candidate who can find it. Although no one thought in the U.S. last night that the hour and a half of debate would mark a turning point in the race for the White House.
Why was imposed McCain?
Why was imposed McCain? largely because, as pointed out this Friday Judd Legum, one of the main advisers of the failed campaign of Hillary Clinton, “which says the candidate is less important than how you say it.” In other words, “the person who is more relaxed and you can provoke some laughter is usually the victor.”
And there, McCain was much better than Obama. As explained last night, while continuing the debate, Steven Clemons, a Republican centrist who supports the Democrats now in his political blog “The Washington Note, ‘” Obama is reacting, not leading. ”
The Democratic candidate went so far as to say in at least eight occasions that McCain is “absolutely right” in areas such as the squandering of public money, the failure of the policy of George W. Bush to Iran, the influence of lobbyists in government, the tax burden on companies, U.S. spending on imported oil and the success of the current American strategy in Iraq.
With an opponent so polite, McCain had it easy to take the steamroller. In fact, some commentators, such as the neoconservative Charles Krauthammer, reproached him last night “too have machacón been.” And be very aggressive can be a serious problem in the U.S., as noted Hillary Clinton in the primaries.
Leadership is also somewhat subjective, and there, for example, the language of McCain was much more effective than that of Obama. The Republican candidate was always sure of himself, without hesitation or a single moment, and without looking at Obama, but only to the audience, the camera or the moderator, the veteran journalist of public television (PBS) Jim Lehrer .
Faced with this attitude, Obama responded with a cascade of hesitation, and interruptions while addressing a McCain is not lowered at any time to restore sight. The Republican was able to completely bypass some of the questions Lehrer without Obama, who repeatedly showed an incredible tendency to get lost in technical details completely accessories in a debate of this nature, was able to reply or simply remind him that it was draining the package.
Three parts
The debate had three parts. The first, 39 minutes, focused on the economy. It was there that Obama, paradoxically, showed more nervousness. With Lehrer’s first question – “What is your position with respect to financial recovery plan?” – The senator from Illinois was lost with a four-point plan that barely had time to explain within two minutes of his speech.
McCain, meanwhile, avoided the details, something logical in an area-economy-in which, literally stepping on mines. Instead, the Republican candidate attacked his favorite black beast: public spending. The senator from Arizona was asked to “consider a freeze in public spending,” a very quaint in a country that needs 700,000 million dollars of public money to essentially avoid the bankruptcy of its financial system.
McCain once again repeat that trimmed the budget by 18,000 million dollars, a figure only when their ridiculous lowering the tax burden will cost 300,000 million, as Obama reminded him, and again draw some of their favorite topics, such as the theoretical waste of money public funding for the State of a study on the DNA of bears.
In return, Obama tried to show more connection with the average American, a strategy that can be very important in this election because of the recession in the U.S. is falling. At bottom, however, the two candidates did an exercise in ambiguity, bypassing decide on the most controversial aspects of the crisis.
Paradoxically, Obama only began to show more sure of himself from minute 40, when the debate turned to foreign policy. There might be thought that the roles would be reversed, and that, while McCain, who accumulates a vast experience in that field-encentraría is in the details, Obama tiraría of generalities.
In fact, the Democratic senator insisted discuss with McCain at the same level, which, given the difference in curriculum between one and another, perhaps not the best strategy. Obama, however, managed to maintain ground to defend his proposal to negotiate with countries like Iran. In the last twenty minutes, the meeting was more equalized.
But it was too late. McCain had the debate in his hands. After the meeting, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, kept reminding reporters that “McCain has referred to Ronald Reagan four times because he is a man of the past.” The odd thing was that no Republican resurrecting Reagan, but Obama has not been able to remind you that the president left the White House 20 years ago.
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