I think it is rather telling that in a debate on foreign policy McCain was obnoxious, flexible with the truth, ignored Obama except to attack him, and continued to paint an "us vs them" outlook on the world. That's not the kind of person I want conducting diplomacy with world leaders.

That "preconditions/preperations" semantics argument was really annoying. Obama clarified his stance for McCain several times but McCain still kept insisting that Obama was going to "have a tea party" with A-jad, Chavez, and Putin.

I didn't watch the economics portion of the debate so I'm not sure who did better at that.

All that being said, it was a fairly even debate with Obama being slightly better on substance. McCain definately did a good job presenting himself as the experienced candidate.

One last thing, McCain was very moving and inspiring when talking about taking care of veterans.