2008-09-26

First Presidential Debate 2008



Some positions set forth during Debate

Q: As president, what will you have to give up as a result of the $700 billion bailout?

Both candidates answered by saying what they would not debate.

Obama: Preserve Education, Alternative Energy, Health Care, Infrastructure; optimize spending in existing programs
McCain: Preserve Defense; optimize defense spending

Obama: The surge was a tactic
McCain: The surge was a strategy

McCain: Has a bracelet from a mother whose son died in Iraq and asked him "not to let her son to have died in vain."
Obama: Has a bracelet too from a mother whose son died in Iraq and asked him "not to let other mothers suffer like she has."  No soldier dies in vain.

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