By the way, McCain won the first debate

I asked a lot of people over the weekend what they thought of the first presidential debate on Friday, but most said they didn't watch it. Some didn't even know it was on. Holding the debate on a Friday night in the fall was a stupid idea.

If you missed it, John McCain showed once again why he's ready to lead. Barack Obama regurgitate the same talking points from his convention speech and otherwise ducked and dodged the questions.

His grasp of foreign policy is woefully short.

Here's a terrific assessment of the debate from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page:

The often stammering Democrat nominee showed yet again -- to borrow a phrase he filched from Hollywood -- that he doesn't get it, especially when it comes to matters economic.

Sen. Obama seemed to blame the current financial crisis primarily on some mythical Republican ideology "that regulation is always bad." And in the World According to Barack, no economic policies predating the Bush administration could possibly have contributed to the implosion.

The junior senator of Illinois also endlessly played the class-warfare card, oddly implying that the investment needed to create jobs -- an investment climate that his policies would kill -- somehow comes from the "bottom up," not the top down.

And Sen. Obama repeatedly misrepresented his proposed massive tax increases as tax cuts for virtually all. It's a neat trick that is political charlatanism at its worst.

Read the full editorial at the newspaper's Web site.