The Official Presidential Debate Thread (Round 3)

[That Guy]

mccain spent a lot of time on worthless issues (third party campaign remarks, etc) and not enough time on the issues :/.

I don't think the question this election is who's going to win, but simply by how much.

i just hope obama doesn't balloon up the debt even more (since neither candidates spending plans match their cost cuts), doesn't do something stupid to the military (i think he'll leave it alone for the most part), and doesn't goof up on foreign policy (trade agreements, military, policies, etc).

if he can stop china's money pegging game, that'd be great... if he can reduce insurance costs, that'd be great too (but actually putting a cost value to force americans to help reduce their own medical costs individually would be an even better idea that would also reduce insurance and taxpayer cost... ie when deciding between a 95% effective surgery or a 99% effective one make them pay 5% - so a 20k surgery costs $1,000 and a 1mill surgery would cost them 50k$... by putting dollar signs up front, you get self censorship on medical expenditures, which can save the taxpayers MASSIVE amounts of up front money, even more on insurance costs, and allows even more people to be insured or receive further medical care).

now if he'll let people opt out of social security, ban credit swaps (or regulate them like insurance), etc etc, that'd be even better. if warren buffet is dictating his economic policy then the economy going forward should be in pretty good shape.

hopefully he keeps secretary gates too, that guy seems to get the big picture.