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Article: Obama, McCain fight it out on TV.(News)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2008
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BYLINE: Leonard Doyle
The rivals for the United States presidency clashed bitterly in their first televised debate on Friday.
Barack Obama sought to tie John McCain to the failed policies of the Bush administration at home and abroad.
McCain called attention to Obama's inexperience.
Obama, seen by voters as the weaker on foreign affairs, was judged to have held his own in the debate, and McCain did not manage to expose any major weaknesses in his opponent.
McCain derided his rival's inexperience in foreign policy, proclaiming that he had neither "the knowledge or experience" to be president. He responded to Obama's barbs by ...