I’m a liberal. No apologies. I’m voting for Obama.

However, I think Obama lost that debate…yet he lost it by a close margin; he didn’t lose big.

Obama had SO MUCH material to use to go direct attack mode on McCain, but Obama held back. And McCain put Obama on the ropes early and Obama couldn’t move off the ropes and found himself simply defending himself for much of the debate.

EXAMPLE: McCain was EFFECTIVE with his pork-barrel spending attack against Obama, and positioning himself (McCain) as fiscally conservative with voter’s tax dollars. Now that is a lie and totally absurd for a Republican who’s closely supported much of the Bush administration massive spending to claim he’s a fiscally conservative. But it doesn’t matter because McCain was very effective spinning that lie (McCain fiscal conservative, Obama pork barrel spender) during the debate.