New West Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming
If you missed Friday’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, you can listen here on NPR.
For a broad perspective, Politico’s “The Arena” has more than a dozen reviews written by professors, foreign policy fellows, activists, authors, historians, strategists and notable intelligentsia.
The New York Times’ “The Caucus,” a blog written by its political staff, has multiple points of view.
The New Republic thinks both Obama and McCain lost.
The National Review declares McCain the winner.
A CNN poll resulted in advantage: Obama.
McClatchy newspapers, which include the Idaho Statesman, has a good fact-checking piece.
Here’s another review from McClatchy.
And CNN’s analysis, “A Few Jabs, but no Knockout in First Debate.”
I was surprised to see the pundits give the first third of the debate, about the economy to Obama. At a time many law makers are asking the taxpayers to add $700 Billion dollars to the national debt to keep the banking system solvent, Obama kept driving home the importance of his $900 billion in increased socialism programs.
Unemployment is going up because of the troubled economy yet Obama wants to pile onto entrepreneurs tax burden for his “Robin Hood Entitlements” which will result in increased job loss.
How can someone married to such entitlement spending increases be good for this troubled economy?