BEST DEBATE SOUNDBITES

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MCCAIN: I've been involved, as I mentioned to you before, in virtually every major national security challenge we've faced in the last 20-some years. There are some advantages to experience, and knowledge, and judgment.

MCCAIN: Well -- well, let me give you an example of what Senator Obama finds objectionable, the business tax.

Right now, the United States of American business pays the second-highest business taxes in the world, 35 percent. Ireland pays 11 percent.

MCCAIN: Senator Obama is the chairperson of a committee that oversights NATO that's in Afghanistan. To this day, he has never had a hearing.

MCCAIN: I'm afraid Senator Obama doesn't understand the difference between a tactic and a strategy. MCCAIN: And I'm -- I'm -- understand why Senator Obama was surprised and said that the surge succeeded beyond his wildest expectations.

OBAMA: Jim, let me just make a point. I've got a bracelet, too, from Sergeant - from the mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopeck, sure another mother is not going through what I'm going through.

OBAMA: And the biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase.

MCCAIN: No one can be opposed to alternate energy.

MCCAIN: So let me get this right. We sit down with Ahmadinejad, and he says, "We're going to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth," and we say, "No, you're not"? Oh, please.

MCCAIN: By the way, my friend, Dr. Kissinger, who's been my friend for 35 years, would be interested to hear this conversation and Senator Obama's depiction of his -- of his positions on the issue. I've known him for 35 years.

MCCAIN: Well, I was interested in Senator Obama's reaction to the Russian aggression against Georgia. His first statement was, "Both sides ought to show restraint."

Again, a little bit of naivete there. He doesn't understand that Russia committed serious aggression against Georgia. And Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B." And their aggression in Georgia is not acceptable behavior.

OBAMA: No, actually, I think Senator McCain and I agree for the most part on these issues.

MCCAIN: Jim, when I came home from prison, I saw our veterans being very badly treated, and it made me sad. And I embarked on an effort to resolve the POW-MIA issue, which we did in a bipartisan fashion, and then I worked on normalization of relations between our two countries so that our veterans could come all the way home.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

[pillut48]

McCain was the better participant, and these statements show that—I can’t for the life of me understand why people are saying Ubama did better than him on the answers! [puzzled]

[Dawn531]

I don’t know if you’re familiar with facebook, but college kids use it for social networking, and there’s a status bar that allows the kids to post their latest thoughts. Evidently, the latest fun thing to write in the status bar is: “I’ve got a bracelet, too.” College kids making fun of Obama...say it isn’t so, LOL.

[Volunteer]

It was a grown man who is a leader taking on an uninformed, marketing department invented child.

McCain crushed him.

[Ann de IL]

I feel as if there is a huge hole in my education. Please, someone explain what McCain meant about the difference in a tactic and a strategy. Maybe I’m having a blond senior moment.