Obama: I completely agree with that description of the world but I think I will probably see that we kill at least as many of the bad guys as he will by setting slightly different priorities as to who we kill first.
Advantage: McCain (In light of the fact that this debate allowed him to salvage what was otherwise a debacle of a week for him by running and hiding behind "the troops", one wonders why McCain tried to duck this one)
Update: Adrastos has some "quick and dirty" observations which you should check out, but which I am linking to here in order to call attention to my comment there which I will now shamelessly cross-post:
I don't think Obama has ever really learned why he has so many precociously stupid but enthusiastic supporters. People are waiting for someone to challenge these global imperialists and their bloody wars-for-the-profit-of-the-few. If Obama would articulate this... give words to the collective dissatisfaction, he would knock McCain right on his ass. But instead, Obama is running the Kerry strategy; arguing that he is a shrewder manager of the bloody empire instead of taking it on. In short, he's NOT THE CHANGE HIS SUPPORTERS BELIEVE IN.
We can talk forever about how many times McCain lied or got facts wrong or failed to make eye contact or looked grumpy and we'll all be very right about that and feel good about ourselves. But we're missing the point.
The point is Obama had an opportunity to light a political fuse that needs to go off and he timidly refused to do so. This was a very bad moment for him.
Also, there is more debate reaction here from the cheering section.
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