That's not exactly how it happened. I saw this go down live last night.What I thought was kind of funny, though, was that Barack tried to claim one of McCain's advisers, Henry Kissinger, said that they should meet unprecedented with the president of Iran. Though McCain said he would not say that and only would meet with secretaries, Barack insisted... I was amused this morning at the gym when I came to find that McCain was indeed right and that Barack had just pulled a false claim out of who knows where.
Obama was in fact right with what Kissinger said. Kissinger sent an email to CNN after the debate stating that he sided with John McCain and that talks should not be at the presidential level.
CNN/FOX both showed Kissingers exact statement the time he said them and then followed with the email he sent out after the debate was over.
Henry Kissinger actually ran damage control to make McCain look like he was right all along. He should have just said what he meant the first time.
Politics is a shitty business.