I thought McCain looked anemic and thought of the Nixon / Kennedy debate.
He just looks like old politics as you say. Promise everything with no plan. It's like saying, "When I'm Miss America, I plan to bring peace and happiness to all the world". I rather skip that "plan", for one perfect or not, that shows some careful deliberation of the steps needed to reach a more realistic goal.
I watch the news all the time. I know McCain had nothing to say about anything and suddenly started developing his whole policy since about the time he was asked how many houses he owns. There aren't enough cheering fans or Joe Sixpacks in his audience to persuade me, nor enough times he can call himself the Maverick or use patriotism to hide that fact.
On McCain's point that U.S. Corporations pay the second highest tax in the world. I know that's not true in practice, why doesn't John McCain?
Facial King had a good link here;
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1249465620080812?sp=true
Should Obama have run against President Bush in 2004? No, John McCain is the next best copy to run against in 2008.
So I guess the Phillies won.
