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I thought McCain was much more centered than Obama, truer to himself, and much superior to our preconceptions.
I don't say he was great.
Obama was nowhere near as impressive as he is when giving a speech (and I know this is old news), didn't seem to quite know where he was taking many of his statements (though his landing pads were all good enough), and, while perfectly graceful and lucid, was on balance quite a letdown.
I think McCain will pick up more than Obama from this encounter.
Obama seems a bit, not only unformed, but unformable. He is too elastic. He's a brilliant reactor ... that's why he can give so fine a speech. (Though it's hard to remember much about his addresses, impressive though we remember them being.)
I think we will be, if anything, less disappointed at the end of a McCain mandate than at the end of an Obama term.
Unless I'm full of it.
And I probably am, since I saw only part of the debates and was highly distracted anyway.
And at the moment I am feeling good to the point of, well, inebriation.
But I have been a pretty unqualified Obama supporter.
That's weird. I was actually more impressed with Obama during this debate. He wasn't strong on substance, but he was cool, collected, and Presidential. McCain's performance was not good at all.
I think what's happening here is that people on both sides were expecting a great performance from their candidates and a horrible performance from the other guy. They were both average.