OK I don't get it.

[Egnever]

I watched the debate. There were a lot of tabloid type questions thrown at both of our candidates but I don't get the outrage or surprise. ABC is basically the fox news of the big three, Do we not remember the whole 9-11 movie fiasco?

Why is anyone surprised by the quality of their questions?

These guys are running for president and they should be able to withstand this sort of crap being thrown at them and still make their case. I thought both of them did pretty well last night in standing up to that onslaught and actually facing a lot of the garbage being thrown around on the MSM right now.

Sure it was tabloid journalism but tabloid journalism is a large part of our society right now. I don't believe they are better off if we talk about all the garbage all week long then have a debate and pretend it isn't there till the next day when we go right back to it. Sure there are other more important issues to discuss, but these are also issues that people make their decisions on who to vote on. Not people here I hope but plenty do.

I guess what I am saying is yes almost every crap attack on either of our candidates that is out there was thrown at them on live TV last night. I happen to think that overall though that both of them handled it well. Theres a long time to go to november this debate isn't going to propel Mccain to victory or anything.

Just remember that ABC is not a democrats friend is all. We should all already be well aware of that though.

[DJ13]

1. From what I gather, most people are upset for three reasons

1) It came across as a deliberate hit job on Obama

2) Sunstance took a backseat to the National Inquirer

3) One of the two moderators was a former Clinton advisor, which made #1 seem all the more despicable

[keep_it_real]

2. I suppose it's frustrating to have to rehash dead issues, over and over

And not be able to deal with bread and butter and policy issues.

[H2O Man]

3. Right.

We knew that George S was being fed questions by Sean Hannity. What did people expect? That he would transform garbage to gold? Come on. This is simple: garbage in, garbage out.

[crispini]

4. Ok, we expect some of that, but ALL of it? 50 minutes of it?

Horseshit, I say, and horseshit it was.

[knixphan]

5. who owns ABC?

[GoldieAZ49]

6. true, for the past month this stuff has been hashed and rehashed here

not the war or economy or health care but all the topics they questioned the both of them about last night.

Really there is no big difference on the key issues so it is a choice between personality and character. That is what those questions went to.