Tuesday, 26 February 2008 19:39 by
jshaw
Just watched the Ohio debate on Youtube. I haven't actually been following them until now. It was pretty funny to watch the two since they are so close. I think I might actually vote this year; the last time I voted was the 2000 election between Gore and Bush.
Overall I thought Hillary wasn't as a good of a speaker as Barack. She was visibly uneased and lost her "cool" at times (e.g., when she interrupted the hosts several times), and you can almost sense her desperation since she's behind (Ohio and Texas being her last chance to turn the tide against Barack, and she didn't really out-debate Barack in TX); Barack on the other hand was at ease, more to the point when answering the questions, and for the most part fended off Hillary's attacks pretty well.
As far as what they had to say, for health care, I personally don't like anything the government enforces upon us. Hillary brought up social security, but it's ironic that it's no secret that people can no longer rely on it for retirement. Hillary does have much more experience than Barack, but at the same time a president can delegate a lot to his sub-ordinates; he just has to be right on the big things, and Barack is pretty convincing that he is.
I'm leaning more towards Barack right now, but the two are both pretty strong candidates (better than John Kerry 4 years ago). Too bad that all the good candidates are running at the same time; if either of them ran 4 years ago, we might not have had another 4 years of Bush.