…the debate seemed very generational. Obama sounded young and forceful, McCain sounded old and forceful. If age entails experience and knowledge, a point McCain tried to make, then he wins. I wonder how he sounded to someone 35 and younger. I am 53, and I felt I was listening to Ronald Reagan, or my father. Obama sounded a college professor–a TA.
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Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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