3rd Presidential Debate, and World Cup Qualifying

The third and last presidential debate is going on right now. By now, I've heard everything that the candidates are saying. They have set messages that they have to deliver and they keep repeating them. Say McCain attacks Obama. Then Obama goes into his planned 'absolutely not true' response and throws in a couple attacks on McCain along the way. Same goes when Obama attacks McCain. It's getting sort of old . . .
However, Obama just had a nice speech on education which I really agreed with. Get more parents involved, give credit for community service, lower costs of college. :)

In general these days though I'm rather tired of all the mud throwing and politics. There was a strip in the comics today where one of the characters put in an absentee ballot just so he could get his vote over with.

Oh, but the moderator (Bob Schieffer [not sure on the spelling of his last name]) is doing a much better job then his predecessors. He is actually interrupting the candidates and chiding them when they don't answer the questions. He also asked some very good questions and follow up questions.

The U.S. soccer team just lost to Trinidad and Tobago in a world cup qualifying match. The game was in Trinidad and Tobago, and it was airing during the debate. I actually watched more of the game than the debate. The home crowd was very supportive of their team. Trinidad and Tobago scored first, then the U.S. caught up, then the U.S. fouled in the box on a corner kick. Trinidad and Tobago scored on the Penalty Kick and the final score was 2-1. It's not terrible for the U.S. since they've already got a spot but now they might be put in a harder group than if they had won. Trinidad and Tobago is ecstatic. They lost to the U.S. 6-1 or something like that the last time they played so this was a big change.