The real Presidential debate

by | Oct 17, 2008


Amid the general consensus that all three of the Presidential debates were notable principally for their tedium, it emerges that McCain and Obama just needed to find the right format.  Not podiums; not sitting; not town-hall; no, it’s stand-up comedy where the real contest was to be found in this election.  Both candidates spoke at the Al Smith memorial dinner in NYC last night; both are laugh out loud funny in places.

McCain (part 2 here):

[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6bhvIvYrsQo]

Obama (part 2 here):

[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NXKaAQ-6BiU]

Author

  • Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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