presidential debate

Yes, yet another blog about the last presidential debate. But- before you shrug off my blog as just another political manifesto, know this- I'm not blogging about the candidates’ platforms or how they did. My goal is to explore a phenomenon I observed among my peers watching the debate with me.

Their behavior was a little disconcerting, as I noticed my fellow college students exhibiting signs of an “intellectual shackle.” What I mean is, they had brought their preconceived notions to the debate, and were therefore extremely closed-minded when it came to responding to the candidates' (usually John McCain’s) ideas. They based their opinions of the debate upon existing stereotypes rather than using their intellect to freely explore new ideas- hence the term, "intellectual shackle."  Read More »

I don't like politics. I really don't. Any time I see them being discussed or hear debates on the radio I want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon. To me it all seems to result in one candidate trying to make the other look bad, or telling you why the other candidate's ideas won't work, or using some rhetorical technique to inflate whatever he's saying.  Read More »

So yeah I was watching the debate tonight and I realized that McCain would seethe and laugh at Obama. His blatant comment, "I am not Bush, if you wanted to run against President Bush you should have run four years ago," struck me by surprise because here a 72 year old man was giving attitude. His comment is not plausible what so ever.  Read More »

The second presidential debate this past Tuesday was extremely interesting despite the boring rules in this town hall format that did not allow the candidates to engage with each other more. Senators McCain and Obama had some great one-liners throughout the night and their strategies were throughout the night were obvious and completely different.  Read More »

I am currently watching a video of the debate, which I unfortunately (tortuously) missed last night, and I expected something far different. I glanced at the papers as I walked to work on Broadway Ave. and I gathered that Obama had dominated an ugly debate.  Read More »

I think that McCain won in some areas. Obama skipped around the questions. some of the others look through their rose colored glasses. People sometimes picked for the views I wonder if they are in a sense democrats. Democrats say obama is winning. The liberal media is the one spinning and causing a much. I think how people will look at the issues especially hard.  Read More »

With the debate just finished, let me give a few points of comments from what I saw from the debate.

I liked how both candidates gave out what they were actually going to do and how they were going to solve crisis happening in our country these days ( especially the economic bailouts).  Read More »

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