Tonight's Debate and why I'm Horrified

After watching tonight's debate I am horrified at the possibility that McCain might be our next president. I have to admit that before tonight I was a little optimistic about the fact that no matter what we were getting it would be better than Bush, but I have lost that optimism tonight.

There were two things that were particulary scary to me about what McCain said during the debate:

1. That we can "win" the war in Iraq, and that if we do not win, soldiers will have died in vain. It seemed to me that "winning" to McCain is his primary objective and that he would "win" this war no matter what the costs. He continually ignored Obama's assertions that we needed to turn our efforts to Afghanistan and the Taliban, and he kept repeating his false presumptions about Obama's opinions. To me, McCain is still the soldier who can not or will not question the decisions of the chief. Sure, he questions it when it has to do with other things, but not the military or war.

2. McCain wants to start a League of Democracy...to take over the world? At least that was how I understood it. Let's get together all of the democratic nations and make everyone else do things the way we want them done! This was the scariest idea he brought to the debate tonight and (not to be redundent) it scares the bejeebers out of me.

For both of these points, I thought that Obama held himself very well. I especially liked his assertion that we need to get non-democratic countries involved. I am not saying that I have no questions about Obama (for instance, why hasn't he been to Afghanistan?), but if McCain is elected, I see another 4 years of war with no end in sight. I see rich continuing to get richer at the expense of the poor. I see our children continuing to get sub-par education and expected to compete in the global economy. I see the United States dropping further in the world view. I ask McCain, if you "know" all of these foreign leaders and have been to all of these places, why is it that foreign polls show that Obama is favored over you?

And I just want to leave off with this. Why is it that Obama could directly address, look at, and talk to McCain, while McCain could not even make eye contact with Obama, let alone address him by name? Obama spoke directly to McCain on numerous occasion and McCain not once even used Obama's name in a direct address. McCain constantly put down Obama with "I don't think Senator Obama understands" this, or "his naivete" about that. You go Barack Obama for not stooping to McCain's level and slinging mud at him! This was why I liked you in the primary debates. Hilary would sling and you would not give it back. You hold yourself to higher standards and I admire that!