Well....I would have wanted Obama to say a bit more on a couple of subjects, rather than just re-quoting some statistics I have heard 20 times...but.... it soon became evident he doing only the minimum needed to hold to his basic message and not take any chances. The goal, at this point in the campaign, is to WIN, not to introduce unpredictable variables. Kinda boring, but he has a nice lead, and McCain's campaign is doing a fine job of digging themselves a deeper hole.
He answered McCain clearly when necessary and allowed McCain to crawl out on limbs in a vain attempt to link Obama with ANYTHING shady. I'm sure it played well with the conservative base, just as choosing Palin did, but he did almost nothing to attract undecided voters.

   McCain tried valiantly to distance himself from the Bush years, but he has too much baggage with Bush's name still clearly visable on it. (I wanted to hear Obama say, "Gosh John, it looks like we are BOTH running against the Bush legacy, but I think I'm doing more credible job of it!")

...so...barring some very strange event, I feel like Barack Obama has a pretty good advantage now....and as I said before, I don't envy him for what he's getting into.