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WITH three weeks left before Election Day, the Presidential nominees made their last pitch for the White House in front of millions of television viewers.
The third and final Presidential Debate featured lots of accusations, verbal jabbing and a guy by the name of Joe the Plumber.
Presidential nominees Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) squared off for the final time Wednesday night at the Hofstra University in New York.
The spirited debate kicked off what will be the last stretch of their Presidential campaign.Unlike the previous two debates in where most political pundits expressed concern over McCain’s demeanor, McCain sat poised and ready.
Dressed in a black suit with a striped blue tie, the gray haired 72-year-old Arizona senator, who had been trailing the younger, 48-year-old Obama in most polls, attacked his opponent’s arguments every chance he got.Meanwhile, Obama weathered most of McCain’s attacks and threw in a few jabs of his own.
The topic for the evening was domestic policy. The topics ranged from economic policy, health care to negative campaigning.
Both laid out the general ideas of their economic plans, which many US citizens hope will help resuscitate a faltering economy considered one of the worst since the great depression.
With the US deficit reportedly facing a $455 billion deficit that experts say possibly could go as high as $1 trillion next year, it seemed fitting that how these two men can fix the nations recent economic woes would open the presidential debate.
McCain unveiled a $52 billion proposal before the debate that includes tax breaks for seniors, a reduction in the tax on long-term capital gains, suspending tax on unemployment insurance, among other things.
McCain said one of his short-term fixes to fixing the economy is to buy people’s home mortgages and negotiate with them “so they can afford to pay the mortgage, [and] stay in their home.”
“Well, what about the citizen that stayed in their homes? That paid their mortgage payments? It doesn’t help that person in their home if the next door neighbor’s house is abandoned,” said McCain. “And so we’ve got to reverse this. We ought to put the homeowners first.”
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