Bob Schieffer... CBS News stated that the McCain Obama Debate was a tie when asked by Katie Couric and you know if the media said it was a tie... McCain won!!

He continued to say that McCain was on the offense and that McCain was much clearer and more knowledgeable in his examples.

John McCain wins the first presidential debate

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

John McCain exceeded my expectations and narrowly did better than Barack Obama in the first presidential debate Friday night.

McCain was more precise in many of his answers.

He was not deferential to Obama, who made the mistake of saying too many times "Sen. McCain is right" about several issues.

And McCain smiled and looked confident, especially because he was on firm ground -- foreign affairs -- most of the night.

Submitted by Yael T. Abouhalkah on September 26, 2008 - 9:50pm

Obama continuously said... "I agree with John McCain or John McCain is right", throughout the debate.

In the wake of this debate, there's a lot of discussion about who won/lost. Spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker has to say:

There was one man who was presidential tonight, that man was John McCain. There was another who was political, that was Barack Obama. John McCain won this debate and controlled the dialogue throughout, whether it was the economy, taxes, spending, Iraq or Iran. There was a leadership gap, a judgment gap, and a boldness gap on display tonight, a fact Barack Obama acknowledged when he said John McCain was right at least five times. Tonight's debate showed John McCain in command of the issues and presenting a clear agenda for America's future.

--Brian Wingfield

John McCain headed back to Washington D.C. after the debate to try and help finalize and send a bailout bill on the economic crisis to the President...  Obama went back to campaining.

McCain, who flew to Washington after Friday night's presidential debate in Mississippi, spent part of Saturday working the phones and "helping out as he could, or was needed" aide Mark Salter said. But McCain did not enter the Capitol, where his colleagues were voting on a $634 billion spending bill that ended a ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and sent billions of dollars to the military.

McCain supports such measures. But the vote would have been difficult for him because the bill also included more than 2,000 pet spending projects worth more than $6 billion, which he would have used his line item veto to delete, if he were President. That is the kind of pork barrel spending that McCain has pledged to end.

Obama chose ot campaign in North Carolina and Virginia, instead of returning to Washinton. Aides said he placed calls to Paulson, Reid and a key House member to 'keep tabs' on the finance negotiations.

Both presidential candidates are trying to position themselves to take at least partial credit if an accord is reached.  No question that McCain has been the leader and much more hands on in the ssolution of this crisis. Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor offered new details from Thursday's contentious White House meeting that underscored the divisions among lawmakers trying to reach an agreement.