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Sure it would have been a change of pace if McCain stood up at the end and asked the American people:

"Do you want to live in a socialist fascist state controlled by a dictator whose political career began in the living room of a domestic terrorist."

People were looking for blood last night and I can understand that. But in reality as the media did their number to set up Palin to fail in her debate the media was attempting to set up McCain as well. Obama did not say anything different. In fact Obama was more boring than McCain. You can only stretch "style" so far.

Why wait? The Republicans are imposing socialism on us right now with this bailout, and McCain's housing bailout.

Nobody needs to set Palin up. She and only she controls what comes out of her mouth, and it's usualy appalling and incoherent.

I think Obama is boring, too. But I think he'll change things. They need changing. McCain looks like he's going to need a long rest after this campaign not a new job.

Actually, Obama was correct about the computer. He said that it was created by government scientists to encrypt and decrypt military communications, which is accurate. Maybe factcheck?

Brendan, here's the transcript of that section:

Obama: ..."It (a new energy economy) can be an engine that drives us into the future the same way the computer was the engine for economic growth over the last couple of decades.

And we can do it, but we're going to have to make an investment. The same way the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defense purposes, how to communicate, we've got to understand that this is a national security issue, as well."

Colossus, that cracked the Enigma codes, was developed by the British in the early '40s. It was a very fast calculator. I don't think Obama was really talking about that.

The Internet was about communication among researchers working on defense contracts. I had a summer job during college as a vacation replacement for secretaries in the physics dept. at Brown in '66 and '67, when Arpanet, the packet switching network that preceded the Internet, was being developed. I typed lots of grant proposals and correspondence about it and about defense contracts funding the high-energy research going on there.

Ted Nelson of Brown had coined the term hypertext in '65, and Andy Van Dam made the first operational hypertext system there in '67.

Forrest Gump-like, as a teenager I had a lowly seat in that environment, and watched some of it developing.

I am so sick of both parties! Neither are worthy to be prseident! To see the coverage of all the networks makes me not to even want to vote. Too much bias in the media!

Simply put, things haven't worked out so well these past 8 years...
let's try something new.

Period.

Well said, Sean.

Jerry, Sean & Arwen: Let's send Obama & McCain a message. We need to vote for a 3rd-party candidate who will break the stranglehold the Dems and the GOP have had the country in for decades .