I might take some heat for this, but it's the truth. Our man Obama, my pick for V.P in 8 years, and President beyond that, is a stunningly bad debator. I mean just terrible. Fortunately, he's up against Alan Keyes, who is no John Kerry either(yes, I think Kerry is a great debator) but if Obama wants more than Senator, as I truly hope he does, he needs to polish it up a bit.
At one point during his last debate,. he misspoke his position on drilling, and allowed Keyes to go after him on vouchers and religion.
B/C Keyes is a nutbag, Obama will be fine here. But he needs to get better at this if he hopes to compete on a national stage someday.
Just consider this constructive criticism of Obama. I love the guy, have sent him money, and would drop what I was doing to work for him in a second. I want him to be President. To do that, he needs to polish his debating skills, they are a bit rusty.