So, Who Won the Debate?

Well, according to a poll taken by MSNBC, in which viewers are asked to vote, Obama won by a HUGE margin. Poll results as of when I took the poll (all the questions had well over 100,000 respondents): 21% said Clinton, 64% said Obama (14% said neither). That's a pretty significant win for Obama, who did not attack Clinton, was always polite, never frowned at her and she did at him, and was able to VERY effectively defend his positions. Clinton, on the other hand, got worked up an awful lot and really tried to get Obama's ire up, but failed miserably. I really think she's on her way out.

One example of how she failed: She mentioned that while Barack Obama may have been against the war in Iraq from the very beginning, he always voted for more funding in Iraq. Obama very calmly (and smartly) responded that once Bush had driven that bus into a ditch, it was no longer a question of should they have gone in, to which the answer is obviously NOT. The question then becomes how to get the bus out of the ditch, in this case with minimal loss of life (though we're crawling toward the 4000 casualty mark).

This is another misconception the Right Wing propagate about the Democrats. It's not that the Democrats don't support the soldiers in Iraq. It's that they support them so much they want those soldiers withdrawn alive, whole, and healthy, and by trying to deny Bush the funding to continue his illegal war, they tried to force him to withdraw from Iraq. It was only when Bush steadfastly REFUSED to budge on his position because doing so would be admitting he had F****D-UP BIG TIME that the Democrats gave in and gave Bush his funding.

And this is why we need to have a Democrat back in the White House. He (or she) needs to clean up the potty mess Bush and his Republican cronies made over the last seven years.