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There may be an objective way to score tonight's debate. Assuming one could find anyone objective to score it. My subjective take was that McCain won on foreign policy debate points, and Obama won on style and presidential diplomacy. Both men demonstrated a knowledge of geography, the hot spots in the world of foreign policy, and the names of leaders of various nations. There were no guffaws.

America is but one Katrina, one serious terrorist attack, one large earthquake, one more war away from an economic depression that will send tens of millions of Americans into the streets homeless, jobless, and waiting in line at charitable organization and government soup kitchen doors for meals.

Sen. John McCain on Friday demonstrated that he is making progress on crystallizing his hopefully damaging critique of his opponent, Barack Obama. Like Hillary Clinton, McCain appears to be finding his voice, all negative, all the time. Apparently, McCain's advisers are telling him that if he can't tear down Obama's growing popularity, he will lose. And McCain's campaign speeches are now reflecting this effort.

During Obama's discussion with the Sunni Vice President, and Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, they did not discuss Obama's plans for withdrawal. However, after their meetings in press conferences, both of the Iraqi leaders said in unequivocal terms, we want the U.S. troops out by the end of 2010. Which happens to be, 16 months after our next president takes office, and when Barack Obama said we needed to be out of Iraq.