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So, the Presidential debate is Friday

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Submitted by lambert on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 11:41pm

So, do you think Congress will wrap up Emperor Paulson's $700 billion bailout before Friday, preventing Obama and McCain from debating the merits before the American people?

I'm guessing yes.

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Submitted by Damon on

But, one of the few things I'm anticipating about the debate, and that's exactly how the moderators will treat/handle McCain against the new Village pick. I'm already assuming that they'll treat the Village pick the same as they did during the primaries in debate, but I'm really wondering if they'll treat McCain like they did Hillary?

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Submitted by makana44 on

and McCain has fallen pretty far. Even George Will and David Brooks seem to have soured on him, at least for now. A quick glance at the op-ed pages of the NYT and Wapo is like visiting a McCain-Palin hatefest. Reminds me of 2000, only it's not Gore getting gored this time around.

I don't watch TV usually. I hook up cable for specific events then turn it back off. This year I bought in to watch the Dem debates and will leave it on through the election. Cable news roils my stomach but I saw what and whom everyone was writing about. There was one commentator who stood out (to me) as being clearer of bias and more astute than the others, and that was Patrick Buchanan. This comment of his says it all, "I have to laugh at the brouhaha Sarah Palin’s ascension to national prominence has stirred, especially the consternation in the Obama camp and the media (or do I repeat myself?)."

It may be reverse negative intuitive thinking, but Hunter Thompson always called the shots right…I wonder then, what is it they fear about McCain that so causes them to now loath him? When was the last time the media was on your side? And behind "the good guys?" Not in my lifetime. They have a major agenda going on.

It bears repeating ad infinitum: any other freshman senator with Obama's background and associations would have been laughed off the stage and cut to ribbons. Methinks something untoward is afoot and it's marching our way.

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Submitted by BDBlue on

That's the question I want answered. I think Somerby asked it orginally. But why have they buried it on the one of the two nights that fewest Americans will watch it live? Perhaps they'd prefer everyone to only see the Village narrative and not the actual debate.