That’s my assessment of the presidential debates, for anyone who cares. I watched about a half-hour from the beginning, when they were talking about financial stuff, and then turned it off. Lots of snipping back and forth with no clear winner emerging, McCain being less wrong on spending, Obama being less wrong on taxes, no one especially credible in their claims to balance the budget. Obama kept trying to tie the budget back to his desires for universal health care, etc. and his dislike of the market. There, Obama was wrong and McCain was right to say that there’s a lot of strength in our economy in terms of individual enterprise. (See also Lester Hunt’s comments. Also see also a post that was available from Will Wilkinson, before he took his blog down to do an upgrade.)