Debate 2008

Dylan Smith
English Comp. 101

The presidential nominees Barrack Obama for the Democrats, and John McCain for the Republicans were before many people at The University of Mississippi. These two greatly accomplished men debated many important issues that the entire nation would like them to address. Barrack Obama had clearly looked like a stronger speaker than his rival John McCain. As both of these men argued about many issues that our government and American people have about this country, I observed both Obama and McCain and how they acted during this debate. This is the Presidential Debate of 2008.
The Democratic nominee Barrack Obama, was very well spoken during the Presidential Debate of 2008. He showed many characteristics of being a well organized President and also a very organized speaker. He used many hand gestures indicting the parts of his speech that he was talking about and also made very god eye contact with the viewers at home. Both of which show him being a good public speaker and a concerned democrat about all of the American people. During the debate Obama was very well dressed and almost never smiles, as a serious president should do. As the debate continued Obama and McCain wrote down vigorous notes about what each one was acknowledging. Barrack Obama emphasized a nation wide “Tax-Cut” to 95% of the American people, hoping to boost the economy in this terrible time of crisis. Barrack Obama had a successful debate between himself and the Republican candidate John McCain, in my eyes I would say that Barrack had won the 2008 Presidential Debate because of what he had talked about and the way the he addressed everyone that was watching and at the debate.
The Republican nominee John McCain, also had a very strong 2008 Presidential debate. He continued with President Bush’s theories on many things, including the war in Iraq. John McCain was very well dressed and also very well spoken. However, he did not make eye contact with the viewers and never made eye contact with the Senator Barrack Obama. To me I thought that McCain was a little childish in the ways that he was talking over Senator Obama, also I thought that McCain had been a little unsure on what he had been talking about. John McCain had a very well handled debate but, according to me I thought that he had been the weaker of the two nominees.