It was the best of their three debates. McCain did better than in the previous debates, and Obama is attempting to run out the clock. Bob Schieffer did well and asked some good questions. I was thinking that it was too bad that the late Tim Russert was not around to moderate one of these debates.

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Joe the Plumber was the star tonight. Basically, Obama wants to take money from people, like Joe, and give it to other people. He calls it spreading the wealth. In other words, if you make some money in this country, maybe a little more than your neighbor down the street, Obama will tax you so he can spread it to your neighbor. It really does not matter to Obama if maybe your neighbor is a lazy person or a drug addict, he wants to spread the wealth from you to him.

We’ve heard it before, like when Clinton said in his first campaign for President that he wanted to give everyone a tax cut. Clinton raised our taxes. Obama will too.

We finally heard about the domestic terrorist friend of Obama’s, William Ayers. We heard about the group that attorney Barack Obama represented and his campaign gave thousands to, ACORN. Obama seemed to be reading his remarks when he was answering these questions. One has to wonder if ACORN folks were outside the debate center registering Mickey Mouse to vote.

Finally they talked about abortion. Obama by far has the most extreme abortion views of any candidate for President, ever. As for partial-birth abortion, he favors it. Any time. He campaigned on it in 2004.

Obama was caught snickering and smiling several times during the debate when McCain was giving answers. His smug and elitist attitude is showing through, and that turns people off.

So yes, it was the best debate. McCain won. I was happy to see him finally go on the offensive.