I have watched Barack Obama and John McCain's appearances at the Saddleback Valley Community Church
By
Elihu
on August 16, 2008
http://saddlebackcivilforum.com/index.html
I'm not sure if you can still watch it from the website; I watched it live, but the video doesn't seem to be working anymore.
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Some observations:
The lists of supreme court justices that each candidate would not have nominated didn't seem to intersect at all. (Were there any names left out, that presumably both candidates can tolerate?) Those who pay more attention to the politics within the supreme court than I do probably could infer a lot about the differences between the two candidates.
Obama and McCain's responses to the question about evil were very different. Obama responded to the question as being about evil in general, as a force in not just politics but daily life as well; McCain seemed to take it as the person who wrote the question probably meant it, in the "axis of evil" sense.
McCain seemed to be in more of a stump-speech mode, and told a couple of war stories that a lot of people have probably already heard. Obama seemed more contemplative, giving long explanations for his answers.
There was a question about privacy versus security that was asked of McCain but not Obama (due to time constraints), which is kind of a shame since it would have been enlightening to contrast their answers.