[richlevy]

Was any of this debate televised on C-Span? I live in PA but I would have loved to see it. The only detailed coverage I have found so far is this -
The Keyes vs Obama prize fight

Statments like this make me suspect bias.

Keyes was the man with the superior mind. On every issue he found an original and intelligent way of inspecting it. He started by identifying the core problem which underlies a complex issue. He explained how the issue was misperceived by his opponents. He explained how his governmental experience uniquely equipped him to understand the situation. And he showed the way towards the solution. Amazingly, he was ably to do all this very quickly. He performed this feat for almost every issue.

Facing Keyes in debate is like facing Ali in the ring. Alan Dershowitz, a celebrity lawyer, and master mauler of the debate circuit made the mistake of his life when he agreed to debate Keyes on television. As Ali destroyed the immensely powerful George Foreman, Keyes destroyed the formidable Alan Dershowitz.

Obama was noticeably unoriginal in his approach. Most of his lines were familiar. He borrowed from the Kerry campaign, from liberal pundits, and from local pols. However, the ordinary listeners knew what he was saying because they have heard it before. Many of Keyes original ideas may have been new to many listeners. Those of limited education may not have known what he was talking about.

Of course, if you read the author's bio, you can suspect a slant.

Fred Hutchison, a Christian layman, has had a variety of opportunities to teach, ranging from pulpit invitations to being a banquet speaker. He has written hundreds of essays about religion, politics, history, philosophy, and science, and is the author and director of short dramas and comedies.

He has an MBA and a CPA and is retired. During his career, he was a technical specialist in governmental accounting and auditing, and he wrote technical literature, did research, taught classes, prepared training seminars, and performed quality review work.

Fred is motivated by the pursuit of truth, and is fascinated by how we can abstract information from many fields to assemble a framework of ideas with which to understand the world. However, he believes that scriptural truth is the essential foundation for wisdom and knowledge and an indispensable antidote to self-deception. His book The Stages of Sanctification is the product of twenty years of intermittent study and meditation on the subject.

Fred is working on another book, which will be titled, The Rise and Fall of Western Culture. Later chapters in the book will examine the roots of Postmodernism and our present culture war. Fred was the first "Christian intellectual" selected by the Talbot Department of Philosophy, of the Talbot School of Theology, for a special program. Talbot seeks to network with Christian intellectuals for cooperation in fighting the culture war and to build up the intellectual discipline of Evangelicals.

Can someone please point me to a middle-of-the-road, largely unbiased, not liberal and not conservative unspun critique of the debate? To quote Goldilocks, "This porridge is too cold".