Palin didn't win debate, but didn't lose either

Obama pledged in a statement to rebuild the middle class and urged Congress to act.

"I also call on Congress to pass an immediate rescue plan for our middle-class that will provide tax relief, save 1 million jobs, and save our local communities from harmful budget cuts and painful tax increases," the Illinois senator said.

Obama was campaigning Friday in Pennsylvania, while McCain was holding a town-hall style meeting in Pueblo, Colorado.

In the debate, Palin repeatedly cast herself as a non-Washington politician and part of a "team of mavericks" ready to bring change to a country demanding it.

"Maverick he is not on the important, critical issues," Biden shot back, referring to McCain. And he said Obama was the true candidate of change.

Palin also accused Obama and Biden of waving "a white flag of surrender" in Iraq.

Biden responded that McCain had been "dead wrong" on Iraq and has not shown how his policies on the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan would be different from Bush's.

The clash over Iraq was the most personal, and pointed. Palin has a son serving in Iraq; Biden's son will deploy there soon.

Biden on Friday was to attend the deployment ceremony in Delaware for his son, Beau Biden, the Delaware attorney general, who is scheduled to fly to Iraq with his National Guard unit soon.

Palin charged Obama with voting against funding for U.S. troops in combat and chastised Biden for defending the move, "especially with your son in the National Guard." She criticized Obama for opposing the increase in U.S. troops in Iraq that is credited with helping reduce violence there.

Biden said McCain was "dead wrong" about Iraq from its 2003 beginning, and the United States was wasting $10 billion a month in that country while ignoring the real center of terrorism, Afghanistan and its mountainous shared border with Pakistan.

Palin also called Obama naive for saying he was willing to engage the leaders of Iran, North Korea and Cuba.



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