The last (and the most intense) presidential debate took place Wednesday, October 14th at the Hofstra University. Republican John McCain fired aggressive comments at Democrat Barack Obama, and Obama shot back in defense. Many of the issues discussed were taxes (and poor Joe the plumber), foreign oil, and free trade, as well as other topics like campaign ads and Vice President picks. McCain kept coming back to the economic issue and connecting McCain to Bush, but McCain went on criticizing him. He also said wasn’t President Bush and should have ran against Bush four years earlier.
McCain claimed Obama was spending historic amounts of money on negative ads, but Obama stated that according to polls (and an actual study), the public felt that McCain’s the one that’s running all the negative ads (I also think so, too). He went on saying that people, however, are more worried about the economy. On the issue of the economy, McCain disapproved of Obama’s tax proposal by using Joe the plumber. The American dream, he said, was being threatened because of the Democratic idea of “spreading the wealth,” also leading to class warfare.
When foreign oil was brought up, both candidates agreed on increasing independence in about 10 or so years. However, free trade was a issue that had sharp differences: Obama mocked the Bush administration’s agreeing on almost all trade agreements. McCain retorted that free trade with a country like Colombia was not a bad agreement at all, which makes sense in boosting its developing economy.
Both senators praised their vice presidential picks when asked; but when they had to give their opinion on the qualification of the opposing vice president, McCain said Biden was qualified, but not always right. Obama, on the other hand, dodged the question, stating that it was up to the American people to decide. In the end, both competitors did very well, McCain showing a lot more offense than usual.
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