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Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama debated on the campus of the University of Mississippi Friday night. The moderator for the debate was Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour on PBS. What follows is the full transcript of the debate:
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LEHRER: Gentlemen, at this very moment tonight, where do you stand on the financial recovery plan?
First response to you, Senator Obama. You have two minutes.
OBAMA: Well, thank you very much, Jim, and thanks to the commission and the University of Mississippi, "Ole Miss," for hosting us tonight. I can't think of a more important time for us to talk about the future of the country.
You know, we are at a defining moment in our history. Our nation is involved in two wars, and we are going through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
And although we've heard a lot about Wall Street, those of you on Main Street I think have been struggling for a while, and you recognize that this could have an impact on all sectors of the economy.
And you're wondering, how's it going to affect me? How's it going to affect my job? How's it going to affect my house? How's it going to affect my retirement savings or my ability to send my children to college? Watch footage of the debate »
So we have to move swiftly, and we have to move wisely. And I've put forward a series of proposals that make sure that we protect taxpayers as we engage in this important rescue effort.
No. 1, we've got to make sure that we've got oversight over this whole process; $700 billion, potentially, is a lot of money.
No. 2, we've got to make sure that taxpayers, when they are putting their money at risk, have the possibility of getting that money back and gains, if the market -- and when the market returns.
No. 3, we've got to make sure that none of that money is going to pad CEO bank accounts or to promote golden parachutes.
And, No. 4, we've got to make sure that we're helping homeowners, because the root problem here has to do with the foreclosures that are taking place all across the country. Read more about the expectations
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Now, we also have to recognize that this is a final verdict on eight years of failed economic policies promoted by George Bush, supported by Senator McCain, a theory that basically says that we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most, and somehow prosperity will trickle down.
It hasn't worked. And I think that the fundamentals of the economy have to be measured by whether or not the middle class is getting a fair shake. That's why I'm running for president, and that's what I hope we're going to be talking about tonight.
LEHRER: Senator McCain, two minutes.
MCCAIN: Well, thank you, Jim. And thanks to everybody.
And I do have a sad note tonight. Senator Kennedy is in the hospital. He's a dear and beloved friend to all of us. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the lion of the Senate.
I also want to thank the University of Mississippi for hosting us tonight.
And, Jim, I -- I've been not feeling too great about a lot of things lately. So have a lot of Americans who are facing challenges. But I'm feeling a little better tonight, and I'll tell you why.
Because as we're here tonight in this debate, we are seeing, for the first time in a long time, Republicans and Democrats together, sitting down, trying to work out a solution to this fiscal crisis that we're in.
And have no doubt about the magnitude of this crisis. And we're not talking about failure of institutions on Wall Street. We're talking about failures on Main Street, and people who will lose their jobs, and their credits, and their homes, if we don't fix the greatest fiscal crisis, probably in -- certainly in our time, and I've been around a little while.
But the point is -- the point is, we have finally seen Republicans and Democrats sitting down and negotiating together and coming up with a package.
This package has transparency in it. It has to have accountability and oversight. It has to have options for loans to failing businesses, rather than the government taking over those loans. We have to -- it has to have a package with a number of other essential elements to it.
And, yes, I went back to Washington, and I met with my Republicans in the House of Representatives. And they weren't part of the negotiations, and I understand that. And it was the House Republicans that decided that they would be part of the solution to this problem.
But I want to emphasize one point to all Americans tonight. This isn't the beginning of the end of this crisis. This is the end of the beginning, if we come out with a package that will keep these institutions stable.
And we've got a lot of work to do. And we've got to create jobs. And one of the areas, of course, is to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.
LEHRER: All right, let's go back to my question. How do you all stand on the recovery plan? And talk to each other about it. We've got five minutes. We can negotiate a deal right here.
But, I mean, are you -- do you favor this plan, Senator Obama, and you, Senator McCain? Do you -- are you in favor of this plan?
OBAMA: We haven't seen the language yet. And I do think that there's constructive work being done out there. So, for the viewers who are watching, I am optimistic about the capacity of us to come together with a plan.
The question, I think, that we have to ask ourselves is, how did we get into this situation in the first place?
Two years ago, I warned that, because of the subprime lending mess, because of the lax regulation, that we were potentially going to have a problem and tried to stop some of the abuses in mortgages that were taking place at the time.
Last year, I wrote to the secretary of the Treasury to make sure that he understood the magnitude of this problem and to call on him to bring all the stakeholders together to try to deal with it.
So -- so the question, I think, that we've got to ask ourselves is, yes, we've got to solve this problem short term. And we are going to have to intervene; there's no doubt about that.
But we're also going to have to look at, how is it that we shredded so many regulations? We did not set up a 21st-century regulatory framework to deal with these problems. And that in part has to do with an economic philosophy that says that regulation is always bad.
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LEHRER: Are you going to vote for the plan, Senator McCain?
MCCAIN: I -- I hope so. And I...
LEHRER: As a United States senator...
MCCAIN: Sure.
LEHRER: ... you're going to vote for the plan?
MCCAIN: Sure. But -- but let me -- let me point out, I also warned about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and warned about corporate greed and excess, and CEO pay, and all that. A lot of us saw this train wreck coming.
But there's also the issue of responsibility. You've mentioned President Dwight David Eisenhower. President Eisenhower, on the night before the Normandy invasion, went into his room, and he wrote out two letters.
One of them was a letter congratulating the great members of the military and allies that had conducted and succeeded in the greatest invasion in history, still to this day, and forever.
And he wrote out another letter, and that was a letter of resignation from the United States Army for the failure of the landings at Normandy.
Somehow we've lost that accountability. I've been heavily criticized because I called for the resignation of the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. We've got to start also holding people accountable, and we've got to reward people who succeed.
But somehow in Washington today -- and I'm afraid on Wall Street -- greed is rewarded, excess is rewarded, and corruption -- or certainly failure to carry out our responsibility is rewarded.
As president of the United States, people are going to be held accountable in my administration. And I promise you that that will happen.
LEHRER: Do you have something directly to say, Senator Obama, to Senator McCain about what he just said?
OBAMA: Well, I think Senator McCain's absolutely right that we need more responsibility, but we need it not just when there's a crisis. I mean, we've had years in which the reigning economic ideology has been what's good for Wall Street, but not what's good for Main Street.
And there are folks out there who've been struggling before this crisis took place. And that's why it's so important, as we solve this short-term problem, that we look at some of the underlying issues that have led to wages and incomes for ordinary Americans to go down, the -- a health care system that is broken, energy policies that are not working, because, you know, 10 days ago, John said that the fundamentals of the economy are sound.
LEHRER: Say it directly to him.
OBAMA: I do not think that they are.
LEHRER: Say it directly to him.
OBAMA: Well, the -- John, 10 days ago, you said that the fundamentals of the economy are sound. And...
MCCAIN: Are you afraid I couldn't hear him?
LEHRER: I'm just determined to get you all to talk to each other. I'm going to try.
OBAMA: The -- and I just fundamentally disagree. And unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on.
They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies, it's a classic example.
LEHRER: So, Senator McCain, do you agree with what Senator Obama just said? And, if you don't, tell him what you disagree with.
MCCAIN: No, I -- look, we've got to fix the system. We've got fundamental problems in the system. And Main Street is paying a penalty for the excesses and greed in Washington, D.C., and on Wall Street.
So there's no doubt that we have a long way to go. And, obviously, stricter interpretation and consolidation of the various regulatory agencies that weren't doing their job, that has brought on this crisis.
But I have a fundamental belief in the goodness and strength of the American worker. And the American worker is the most productive, the most innovative. America is still the greatest producer, exporter and importer.
But we've got to get through these times, but I have a fundamental belief in the United States of America. And I still believe, under the right leadership, our best days are ahead of us.
LEHRER: All right, let's go to the next lead question, which is essentially following up on this same subject.
And you get two minutes to begin with, Senator McCain. And using your word "fundamental," are there fundamental differences between your approach and Senator Obama's approach to what you would do as president to lead this country out of the financial crisis?
MCCAIN: Well, the first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. It's gone -- we have now presided over the largest increase in the size of government since the Great Society.
We Republicans came to power to change government, and government changed us. And the -- the worst symptom on this disease is what my friend, Tom Coburn, calls earmarking as a gateway drug, because it's a gateway. It's a gateway to out-of-control spending and corruption.
And we have former members of Congress now residing in federal prison because of the evils of this earmarking and pork-barrel spending.
You know, we spent $3 million to study the DNA of bears in Montana. I don't know if that was a criminal issue or a paternal issue, but the fact is that it was $3 million of our taxpayers' money. And it has got to be brought under control.
As president of the United States, I want to assure you, I've got a pen. This one's kind of old. I've got a pen, and I'm going to veto every single spending bill that comes across my desk. I will make them famous. You will know their names.
Now, Senator Obama, you wanted to know one of the differences. a million dollars for every day that he's been in the United States Senate.
I suggest that people go up on the Web site of Citizens Against Government Waste, and they'll look at those projects.
That kind of thing is not the way to rein in runaway spending in Washington, D.C. That's one of the fundamental differences that Senator Obama and I have.
LEHRER: Senator Obama, two minutes.
OBAMA: Well, Senator McCain is absolutely right that the earmarks process has been abused, which is why I suspended any requests for my home state, whether it was for senior centers or what have you, until we cleaned it up.
And he's also right that oftentimes lobbyists and special interests are the ones that are introducing these kinds of requests, although that wasn't the case with me.
But let's be clear: Earmarks account for $18 billion in last year's budget. Senator McCain is proposing -- and this is a fundamental difference between us -- $300 billion in tax cuts to some of the wealthiest corporations and individuals in the country, $300 billion.
Now, $18 billion is important; $300 billion is really important.
And in his tax plan, you would have CEOs of Fortune 500 companies getting an average of $700,000 in reduced taxes, while leaving 100 million Americans out.
So my attitude is, we've got to grow the economy from the bottom up. What I've called for is a tax cut for 95 percent of working families, 95 percent.
And that means that the ordinary American out there who's collecting a paycheck every day, they've got a little extra money to be able to buy a computer for their kid, to fill up on this gas that is killing them.
And over time, that, I think, is going to be a better recipe for economic growth than the -- the policies of President Bush that John McCain wants to -- wants to follow.
LEHRER: Senator McCain?
MCCAIN: Well, again, I don't mean to go back and forth, but he...
LEHRER: No, that's fine.
MCCAIN: Senator Obama suspended those requests for pork-barrel projects after he was running for president of the United States. He didn't happen to see that light during the first three years as a member of the United States Senate, $932 million in requests.
Maybe to Senator Obama it's not a lot of money. But the point is that -- you see, I hear this all the time. "It's only $18 billion." Do you know that it's tripled in the last five years? Do you know that it's gone completely out of control to the point where it corrupts people? It corrupts people.
That's why we have, as I said, people under federal indictment and charges. It's a system that's got to be cleaned up.
I have fought against it my career. I have fought against it. I was called the sheriff, by the -- one of the senior members of the Appropriations Committee. I didn't win Miss Congeniality in the United States Senate.
Now, Senator Obama didn't mention that, along with his tax cuts, he is also proposing some $800 billion in new spending on new programs.
Now, that's a fundamental difference between myself and Senator Obama. I want to cut spending. I want to keep taxes low. The worst thing we could do in this economic climate is to raise people's taxes.
OBAMA: I -- I don't know where John is getting his figures. Let's just be clear.
What I do is I close corporate loopholes, stop providing tax cuts to corporations that are shipping jobs overseas so that we're giving tax breaks to companies that are investing here in the United States. I make sure that we have a health care system that allows for everyone to have basic coverage.
I think those are pretty important priorities. And I pay for every dime of it.
But let's go back to the original point. John, nobody is denying that $18 billion is important. And, absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
But the fact is that eliminating earmarks alone is not a recipe for how we're going to get the middle class back on track.
OBAMA: And when you look at your tax policies that are directed primarily at those who are doing well, and you are neglecting people who are really struggling right now, I think that is a continuation of the last eight years, and we can't afford another four.
LEHRER: Respond directly to him about that, to Senator Obama about that, about the -- he's made it twice now, about your tax -- your policies about tax cuts.
MCCAIN: Well -- well, let me give you an example of what Senator Obama finds objectionable, the business tax.
Right now, the United States of American business pays the second-highest business taxes in the world, 35 percent. Ireland pays 11 percent.
Now, if you're a business person, and you can locate any place in the world, then, obviously, if you go to the country where it's 11 percent tax versus 35 percent, you're going to be able to create jobs, increase your business, make more investment, et cetera.
I want to cut that business tax. I want to cut it so that businesses will remain in -- in the United States of America and create jobs.
But, again, I want to return. It's a lot more than $18 billion in pork-barrel spending. I can tell you, it's rife. It's throughout.
The United States Senate will take up a continuing resolution tomorrow or the next day, sometime next week, with 2,000 -- 2,000 -- look at them, my friends. Look at them. You'll be appalled.
And Senator Obama is a recent convert, after requesting $932 million worth of pork-barrel spending projects.
So the point is, I want people to have tax cuts. I want every family to have a $5,000 refundable tax credit so they can go out and purchase their own health care. I want to double the dividend from $3,500 to $7,000 for every dependent child in America.
I know that the worst thing we could possibly do is to raise taxes on anybody, and a lot of people might be interested in Senator Obama's definition of "rich."
LEHRER: Senator Obama, you have a question for Senator McCain on that?
OBAMA: Well, let me just make a couple of points.
LEHRER: All right.
OBAMA: My definition -- here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.
Now, John mentioned the fact that business taxes on paper are high in this country, and he's absolutely right. Here's the problem: There are so many loopholes that have been written into the tax code, oftentimes with support of Senator McCain, that we actually see our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world.
And what that means, then, is that there are people out there who are working every day, who are not getting a tax cut, and you want to give them more.
It's not like you want to close the loopholes. You just want to add an additional tax cut over the loopholes. And that's a problem.
Just one last point I want to make, since Senator McCain talked about providing a $5,000 health credit. Now, what he doesn't tell you is that he intends to, for the first time in history, tax health benefits.
So you may end up getting a $5,000 tax credit. Here's the only problem: Your employer now has to pay taxes on the health care that you're getting from your employer. And if you end up losing your health care from your employer, you've got to go out on the open market and try to buy it.
It is not a good deal for the American people. But it's an example of this notion that the market can always solve everything and that the less regulation we have, the better off we're going to be.
MCCAIN: Well, you know, let me just...
LEHRER: We've got to go to another lead question.
MCCAIN: I know we have to, but this is a classic example of walking the walk and talking the talk.
We had an energy bill before the United States Senate. It was festooned with Christmas tree ornaments. It had all kinds of breaks for the oil companies, I mean, billions of dollars worth. I voted against it; Senator Obama voted for it.
OBAMA: John, you want to give oil companies another $4 billion.
MCCAIN: You've got to look at our record. You've got to look at our records. That's the important thing.
Who fought against wasteful and earmark spending? Who has been the person who has tried to keep spending under control?
Who's the person who has believed that the best thing for America is -- is to have a tax system that is fundamentally fair? And I've fought to simplify it, and I have proposals to simplify it.
Let's give every American a choice: two tax brackets, generous dividends, and, two -- and let Americans choose whether they want the -- the existing tax code or they want a new tax code.
And so, again, look at the record, particularly the energy bill. But, again, Senator Obama has shifted on a number of occasions. He has voted in the United States Senate to increase taxes on people who make as low as $42,000 a year.
OBAMA: That's not true, John. That's not true.
MCCAIN: And that's just a fact. Again, you can look it up.
OBAMA: Look, it's just not true. And if we want to talk about oil company profits, under your tax plan, John -- this is undeniable -- oil companies would get an additional $4 billion in tax breaks.
Now, look, we all would love to lower taxes on everybody. But here's the problem: If we are giving them to oil companies, then that means that there are those who are not going to be getting them. And...
MCCAIN: With all due respect, you already gave them to the oil companies.
OBAMA: No, but, John, the fact of the matter is, is that I was opposed to those tax breaks, tried to strip them out. We've got an emergency bill on the Senate floor right now that contains some good stuff, some stuff you want, including drilling off-shore, but you're opposed to it because it would strip away those tax breaks that have gone to oil companies.
LEHRER: All right. All right, speaking of things that both of you want, another lead question, and it has to do with the rescue -- the financial rescue thing that we started -- started asking about.
And what -- and the first answer is to you, Senator Obama. As president, as a result of whatever financial rescue plan comes about and the billion, $700 billion, whatever it is it's going to cost, what are you going to have to give up, in terms of the priorities that you would bring as president of the United States, as a result of having to pay for the financial rescue plan?
OBAMA: Well, there are a range of things that are probably going to have to be delayed. We don't yet know what our tax revenues are going to be. The economy is slowing down, so it's hard to anticipate right now what the budget is going to look like next year.
But there's no doubt that we're not going to be able to do everything that I think needs to be done. There are some things that I think have to be done.
We have to have energy independence, so I've put forward a plan to make sure that, in 10 years' time, we have freed ourselves from dependence on Middle Eastern oil by increasing production at home, but most importantly by starting to invest in alternative energy, solar, wind, biodiesel, making sure that we're developing the fuel-efficient cars of the future right here in the United States, in Ohio and Michigan, instead of Japan and South Korea.
We have to fix our health care system, which is putting an enormous burden on families. Just -- a report just came out that the average deductible went up 30 percent on American families.
They are getting crushed, and many of them are going bankrupt as a consequence of health care. I'm meeting folks all over the country. We have to do that now, because it will actually make our businesses and our families better off.
The third thing we have to do is we've got to make sure that we're competing in education. We've got to invest in science and technology. China had a space launch and a space walk. We've got to make sure that our children are keeping pace in math and in science.
And one of the things I think we have to do is make sure that college is affordable for every young person in America.
And I also think that we're going to have to rebuild our infrastructure, which is falling behind, our roads, our bridges, but also broadband lines that reach into rural communities.
Also, making sure that we have a new electricity grid to get the alternative energy to population centers that are using them.
So there are some -- some things that we've got to do structurally to make sure that we can compete in this global economy. We can't shortchange those things. We've got to eliminate programs that don't work, and we've got to make sure that the programs that we do have are more efficient and cost less.
LEHRER: Are you -- what priorities would you adjust, as president, Senator McCain, because of the -- because of the financial bailout cost?
MCCAIN: Look, we, no matter what, we've got to cut spending. We have -- as I said, we've let government get completely out of control.
Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate. It's hard to reach across the aisle from that far to the left.
The point -- the point is -- the point is, we need to examine every agency of government.
First of all, by the way, I'd eliminate ethanol subsidies. I oppose ethanol subsidies.
I think that we have to return -- particularly in defense spending, which is the largest part of our appropriations -- we have to do away with cost-plus contracts. We now have defense systems that the costs are completely out of control.
We tried to build a little ship called the Littoral Combat Ship that was supposed to cost $140 million, ended up costing $400 million, and we still haven't done it.
So we need to have fixed-cost contracts. We need very badly to understand that defense spending is very important and vital, particularly in the new challenges we face in the world, but we have to get a lot of the cost overruns under control.
I know how to do that.
MCCAIN: I saved the taxpayers $6.8 billion by fighting a contract that was negotiated between Boeing and DOD that was completely wrong. And we fixed it and we killed it and the people ended up in federal prison so I know how to do this because I've been involved these issues for many, many years. But I think that we have to examine every agency of government and find out those that are doing their job and keep them and find out those that aren't and eliminate them and we'll have to scrub every agency of government.
LEHRER: But if I hear the two of you correctly neither one of you is suggesting any major changes in what you want to do as president as a result of the financial bailout? Is that what you're saying?
OBAMA: No. As I said before, Jim, there are going to be things that end up having to be ...
LEHRER: Like what?
OBAMA: ... deferred and delayed. Well, look, I want to make sure that we are investing in energy in order to free ourselves from the dependence on foreign oil. That is a big project. That is a multi-year project.
LEHRER: Not willing to give that up?
OBAMA: Not willing to give up the need to do it but there may be individual components that we can't do. But John is right we have to make cuts. We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion. That was a give away and part of the reason is because lobbyists are able to shape how Medicare works.
They did it on the Medicaid prescription drug bill and we have to change the culture. Tom -- or John mentioned me being wildly liberal. Mostly that's just me opposing George Bush's wrong headed policies since I've been in Congress but I think it is that it is also important to recognize I work with Tom Coburn, the most conservative, one of the most conservative Republicans who John already mentioned to set up what we call a Google for government saying we'll list every dollar of federal spending to make sure that the taxpayer can take a look and see who, in fact, is promoting some of these spending projects that John's been railing about.
LEHRER: What I'm trying to get at this is this. Excuse me if I may, senator. Trying to get at that you all -- one of you is going to be the president of the United States come January. At the -- in the middle of a huge financial crisis that is yet to be resolved. And what I'm trying to get at is how this is going to affect you not in very specific -- small ways but in major ways and the approach to take as to the presidency.
MCCAIN: How about a spending freeze on everything but defense, veteran affairs and entitlement programs.
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Ladies, gentlemen, and mavericks who accept neither designation: welcome to the first presidential debate of the general election! And what a wild ride it's been to get here, thanks to the unpredictable behaviour of a certain war hero. Actually, the wild ride continues — here's the pooled press report from a few hours ago: "McCain now boarding plane at DCA [Washington's National Airport]... Heading to Memphis, 1:50 minute flight, then motorcade to site. General atmosphere is utter confusion." At the Guardian's Election Headquarters, though (think flashing lights, humming banks of computers, analysts monitoring 24/7 info-feeds) we'll be cutting through the confusion with a liveblog, beginning here shortly before the debate itself at 9pm eastern (2am UK time; watch the debate in the UK on BBC News Channel, Freeview 080). Don't forget to prepare your Debate Drinking Game: you have various different options. Rather than downing a shot every time McCain says "my friends" in a sinister fashion, or when Obama says "as I've said before" just prior to a major policy U-turn, my unit of consumption, I'm afraid, will be sips of Sierra Nevada, because I feel some vague responsibility to stay marginally sober for a while. I'll abandon this policy upon the 30th mention of the word "change", and switch to meths. Join me! The Guardian is not responsible for your alcohol poisoning.
WINDS FEEDING KILLER BLAZE / THE DANGER: Unpredictable behavior of ...
Unpredictable behavior of raging wildfires can trap and kill even the best trained, experienced ... Palin meets her first world leaders in New York; Obama rejects McCain's call to delay ...
more ...
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McCain Attacks on Troop Issue - The Fix
... and our own CIA) have proven they can in a relative short time alter the basic emotional and behavior patterns of captives, it is fair to assume that McCain's unpredictable and ...
more ...
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Cached
McCain Has Trouble Using Agressive Campaign Tactics -- Political Wire
John McCain's campaign "is adopting the aggressive, take-no-prisoners style of Karl ... But the sharp-edged approach is being orchestrated for an unpredictable candidate who often ...
more ...
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Cached
John McCain:
The Manchurian Candidate connection
... and our own CIA) have proven they can in a relative short time alter the basic emotional and behavior patterns of captives, it is fair to assume that McCain's unpredictable and ...
more ...
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Cached
McCain on equal pay - Fact Checker
... and our own CIA) have proven they can in a relative short time alter the basic emotional and behavior patterns of captives, it is fair to assume that McCain's unpredictable and ...
more ...
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Cached
Stephanopoulos: McCain Will Attend Debate Tonight
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: Republican presidential nominee John McCain will attend the debate tonight in Mississippi. The McCain campaign issued a statement saying that they are "resuming all activities and the Senator will travel to ...
more ...
go to website
Source: ABC News Blogs
NewsDateTime: 5 hours ago
September 2008 - Posts
John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign was made in the hopes that politics could be set aside to address our economic crisis. "In response, Americans saw a familiar spectacle in Washington.
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Source: MSNBC Firstread
NewsDateTime: 8 hours ago
Obama camp calls McCain 'erratic'
... said the memo, which cited McCain’s “erratic, out-of-touch behavior ... from the maneuver, but his unpredictable week has prompted the Democrats to launch their most direct attacks on his character to date. Another Democratic official cited McCain's ...
more ...
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Source: Politico.com
NewsDateTime: 9/26/2008
September 2008
Wow, that is not how Obama should have followed up on John McCain's poignant and personal story about a mother of a soldier ... Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center argues 2008 is the most unpredictable election in decades. “In every ...
more ...
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Source: Weekly Standard
NewsDateTime: 9/26/2008
The Letterman-McCain feud continues: Day Two!
Then he went after McCain’s running mate with tonight's Top 10 list, “Top 10 Surprising Facts About Sarah Palin," recited via satellite by residents of Wasilla, Alaska. (No. 2:
more ...
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Source: Los Angeles Times Blogs
NewsDateTime: 9/25/2008
8.30pm (all times eastern): There was always going to be a huge amount at stake tonight; we're expecting the biggest TV audience ever for a presidential debate. But McCain has upped the stakes massively. By agreeing to debate before finalising a bailout deal, it looked like he'd blinked; he needs a "win" tonight if he's to erase the air of hair-trigger rashness hanging over his campaign. So he's left with something to prove, even though the subject-matter — national security and foreign policy — is supposed to be his strongest suit. (He also needs to keep his notorious tetchiness in check: it'll be fascinating to see if Obama, a far cooler customer, tries in subtle ways to wind him up.) Obama's challenges are more longstanding. The conventional wisdom is that he needs to persuade America he'd make a credible commander-in-chief: most voters still prefer McCain for that role. Like McCain, he has a reputation as a not-particularly-good debater; Obama's fault is a tendency to longwindedness and condescension. More voters expect Obama to outperform McCain — but that, of course, only sets the expectations so as to reward McCain if he does minimally well. The venue for the debate is the stately Mississippi town of Oxford — specifically the campus of the University of Mississippi, once the scene of anti-desegregation riots. The audience includes many students and faculty, who apparently aren't pleased with McCain's recent antics. The moderator tonight is kindly, almond-eyed 74-year-old newscaster Jim Lehrer, who has moderated 10 of these debates already — more than anyone else. (He'll almost certainly ask a question or two about the economy.) As for the format: the 90-minute event will be divided into nine segments of nine minutes each, but exactly what happens in each one is unclear: the Obama campaign lawyer who helped negotiate the arrangement has described it as "unprecedented". In the first four minutes, Lehrer will ask a question of each of the candidates, and they'll reply, but the remaining five minutes are at Lehrer's discretion. That part could even involve the candidates debating each other directly. OK, I'm opening the Sierra Nevada now. Stand by... 8.56pm Lehrer is explaining his plans for the night to the audience. "No cellphones!... You all can talk among yourselves until I say hush, and that'll give you a few seconds to chill out." Jeez, OK. 9.00pm Here we go! As you can see from the picture, Lehrer faces the podiums (podia?), which are at right-angles to each other. (Jim Lehrer always looks a bit naturally startled to me, but I don't think he is, really. It's just his eyes.) "Tonight will primarily be about national security and foreign policy, which... includes global finance." Ah, clever. Obama and McCain enter and shake hands. Obama has his hand out first, and gets to grab McCain's forearm. Crucial dominant body language, according to some psychology book I once read. 9.02pm "At this very moment tonight, where do you stand on the financial recovery plan?" Obama lays out his plan and goes straight for the punch, condemning "failed policies... supported by Senator McCain." That didn't take long. McCain: "I do have a sad note tonight, Senator Kennedy is in the hospital tonight..." Feel the bipartisanship! (This is true. And sad. But McCain always does this.) He seems out-of-breath, but that's because he RACED IN from Washington. He sings the praises of the deal he didn't actually broker and that hasn't actually been brokered yet. "Debate each other!" Lehrer suggests now. 9.12pm They really don't want to debate each other. Lehrer just made Obama repeat a line about McCain — and his "fundamentals" line from a few days back — to McCain directly. "Are you worried I couldn't hear it?" McCain says. Lehrer is a rather strange man, I think. 9.14pm Lehrer: "Are there fundamental differences between your approach and Senator Obama's approach to what you would do as president to lead the country out of this?" Now McCain, railing against pork-barrel spending, is waving a felt-tip pen around -- "this one's kind of an old one" -- which he says he'd use to "veto every spending bill" that passed across his desk. Obama responds by pointing out that earmarking doesn't count for much government spending, compared to tax breaks for the wealthy. Also — what a rubbish pen. "I was called 'the Sheriff'," McCain says, chuckling, as part of an incredibly rambling answer about earmarking. I don't think anyone else laughed. Obama interrupts a McCain riff about how raising taxes is bad. "I don't know where John's getting his figures... When you look at your tax policies, you are neglecting people who are really struggling right now, and that is a continuation of the last eight years." He's not holding back on that theme. DRINK! "2,000, my friends, 2,000!" — it's something to do with earmarks, of course, it always is. More on taxes. "A lot of people might be interested in Senator Obama's definition of 'rich'," says McCain. According to scientists, that was the most foolish thing McCain could possibly say, since the only "definition of rich" anyone can remember was McCain's $5m-a-year definition. 9.25pm: A testy exchange on taxes. They're interrupting each other every few seconds now, accusing each other of not telling the truth. When McCain tries but fails to interrupt, he smiles thinly and chuckles. This is not advisable. Now we're onto another bailout question. What will you have to give up, as president, to pay for the bailout plan? Obama talks... and talks... McCain: "Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the Senate. It's hard to reach across the aisle from that far to the left." McCain smiles at his own joke; Obama gives a hilariously small and patronising chuckle, as if to spare McCain's blushes. 9.32pm: Obama just called McCain 'Tom', by "accident". Later he will call him 'Whatever-your-name-is,' or maybe 'Bernard'. Lehrer's getting testy at the two candidates' refusal to admit that they'll have no money left to do anything when they get into office, because Wall Street has collapsed and soon the money system will be suspended anyway and we will all have to start living in treehouses, scavenging for scraps. Scorecard so far: Barack Obama is winning if you measure by substantiveness of answers. John McCain is winning if you count number of years spent in a Vietnamese jail. 9.40pm: Election's over; John McCain just made the same joke twice in the same debate. "I wasn't nominated Miss Congeniality in the Senate," he says. This wasn't funny the first time. Oh, and: DRINK! Twice. "I'm a maverick of the Senate, and I'm proud to say I've got a maverick with me" as running-mate. Yet McCain is a maverick, I note, who's not wearing a flag-pin tonight — unlike secret Muslim Barack Obama. Interesting... And now we're onto foreign policy at last: Iraq. "John, you like to pretend like the war started in 2007; the war started in 2003..." — a long and punchy litany of McCain's smoke-and-mirrors rhetoric on the war, probably Obama's best performance so far tonight. Strange, seeing as how he's supposed to be better on the economy. McCain is lecturing Obama now on the difference between strategy and tactics, and how Obama "did the incredible thing of voting to cut off funding for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan." Obama's responds well — not too law-professory: both senators have voted against troop funding in certain contexts, he points out, because of disputes over whether or not to endorse a timetable for troop withdrawal. 9.49pm: They're completely talking over each other now. It's like BBC Radio 4's Today programme. 9.54pm: Pakistan. McCain is chastising Obama for threatening air strikes in public. That area hasn't been governed since the days of Alexander the Great, he points out, days McCain presumably remembers only too well. Obama says he hasn't threatened air strikes on Pakistan, and reminds the audience that McCain's recommendation of foreign-policy sobriety doesn't sit well with the fact that he "sings songs about bombing Iran." Ouch. Now. Let's address the matter of the 'audience reaction monitor', rolling along the bottom of the screen on CNN's feed. It's like a heart monitor, and it's designed to show the responses of groups of Republican, Democratic and Independent voters, to whom CNN, presumably, jhas given electronic dials. The problem is that it's always basically flat. When McCain talks, Republicans like it slightly more; when Obama talks, Democrats like it more. But basically it's flat. This tells us nothing about anything at all. ...Oh, but the Republicans with their dials do love McCain talking about all the mothers of troops he's met. The candidates are battling over the bracelets they wear from the mothers of deceased servicemen. Hmm. "I have a bracelet too!" says Obama. I don't. 10.05pm: Iran. "Let's have some straight talk," says McCain -- DRINK!, surely -- outlining his plan for a "league of democracies" that would impose sanctions on Iran. But overall the exchanges seem pretty evenly matched. Now McCain is talking about Obama's willingness to talk to America's enemies without precondition. He makes a big deal about stumbling on the pronunciation of 'Ahmedinejad' -- deliberately, I thought...? Obama responds that one of McCain's advisors, Henry Kissinger, recently endorsed the idea of speaking to Iran, but the rest of his explanation of the definition of "preconditions" for diplomatic contacts is pretty convoluted. Or maybe I've just had too much Sierra Nevada? 10.13pm: Obama gets in a nice zinger about McCain's weird Spain gaffe last week, but then McCain rouses himself and delivers probably his punchiest passage so far, repeatedly suggesting that Obama's approach is "dangerous". McCain waxes deeply sarcastic about the notion of Obama meeting Ahmedinejad and telling him off for wanting to "wipe Israel off the map", and Obama doesn't get his comeback in fast enough before Lehrer moves the discussion on. Advantage McCain, in purely political terms, I think... 10.20pm: And so to Russia. As Wikipedia notes in comments, we're going to have to start drinking every time McCain accuses Obama of not understanding something. Obama doesn't understand the Russia/Georgia situation, he says — but surprisingly, after being mocked on the very point by Obama, he decided to repeat his very, very odd remark about looking into Vladimir Putin's eyes and seeing the letters KGB. Putin wears shades most of the time anyway, doesn't he? Probably to cover up the embarrassing fact that he's got letters written on his eyes. 10.25pm: A clash on energy independence and alternative energy. Much interruption. McCain has started grinning broadly; Obama's doing it too now, as they both object to each other's claim that the other objected to alternative fuels. If you see what I mean. 10.27pm: Likelihood of another 9/11 attack? McCain: "Much less likely than the day after 9/11, but we're a long way from safe." Obama: "I think we are safer in some ways" — securing airports, etcetera — "but we have a long way to go." More "Obama doesn't understand" from McCain. His contempt for Obama is tangible — he can't look him in the eye, and sneers while he's speaking — but it makes for an undeniably strong performance. They're competing for the last word now. "There are some advantages to experience and knowledge, and I don't think Obama has the experience... we've seen this stubbornness before, in this administration" — McCain is accusing Obama of being too close to Bush. We live in interesting times. Obama tells a story about his Kenyan father's faith in the American dream, and how America isn't viewed in the same way around the world now as it was then. Some people will say that this means he hates America. McCain: "When I came home from prison..." Drink. He seems close to tears as he talks about helping veterans and "healing the wounds of war." ...Aaaand that's it. McCain gets the last word, but not in a particularly thunderous or resounding way. The two men shake hands, greet their wives, then shake hands with each others' wives, and then kindly, almond-eyed Jim Lehrer shakes various hands too. Well. This was clearly a much better night for McCain than many were expecting; after an unremarkable start, he appeared to find his ground on foreign policy, and delivered significantly more damaging blows to Obama than vice-versa; Obama missed too many opportunities, and was maybe too generous in many of his replies. Then again, various TV pundits are right now hotly debating the notion that McCain's dripping contempt for Obama -- and his strange, nervous grinning and chuckling, like some kind of chuckling maverick -- looked unpresidential, while the Democrat looked the part pretty much all the way through. Both of these arguments are clearly true. Which one triumphs? A win for McCain, I'd say, especially given the expectations. But not a decisive one, or a knockout, by any means. But what do I know? I've drunk a whole third of one bottle of Sierra Nevada. 11.36pm: ...Actually, just before I go: in a CBS instant poll of uncommitted voters, 40% awarded the debate to Obama, 22% to McCain, the rest thought it was a draw. So don't let anyone tell you it was a win for McCain yet -- like, say, I just did.
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Ladies, gentlemen, and mavericks who accept neither designation: welcome to the first presidential debate of the general election! And what a wild ride it's been to get here, thanks to the unpredictable behaviour of a certain war hero. Actually, the wild ride continues — here's the pooled press report from a few hours ago: "McCain now boarding plane at DCA [Washington's National Airport]... Heading to Memphis, 1:50 minute flight, then motorcade to site. General atmosphere is utter confusion." At the Guardian's Election Headquarters, though (think flashing lights, humming banks of computers, analysts monitoring 24/7 info-feeds) we'll be cutting through the confusion with a liveblog, beginning here shortly before the debate itself at 9pm eastern (2am UK time; watch the debate in the UK on BBC News Channel, Freeview 080). Don't forget to prepare your Debate Drinking Game: you have various different options. Rather than downing a shot every time McCain says "my friends" in a sinister fashion, or when Obama says "as I've said before" just prior to a major policy U-turn, my unit of consumption, I'm afraid, will be sips of Sierra Nevada, because I feel some vague responsibility to stay marginally sober for a while. I'll abandon this policy upon the 30th mention of the word "change", and switch to meths. Join me! The Guardian is not responsible for your alcohol poisoning.
WINDS FEEDING KILLER BLAZE / THE DANGER: Unpredictable behavior of ...
Unpredictable behavior of raging wildfires can trap and kill even the best trained, experienced ... Palin meets her first world leaders in New York; Obama rejects McCain's call to delay ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
McCain Attacks on Troop Issue - The Fix
... and our own CIA) have proven they can in a relative short time alter the basic emotional and behavior patterns of captives, it is fair to assume that McCain's unpredictable and ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
McCain Has Trouble Using Agressive Campaign Tactics -- Political Wire
John McCain's campaign "is adopting the aggressive, take-no-prisoners style of Karl ... But the sharp-edged approach is being orchestrated for an unpredictable candidate who often ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
John McCain:
The Manchurian Candidate connection
... and our own CIA) have proven they can in a relative short time alter the basic emotional and behavior patterns of captives, it is fair to assume that McCain's unpredictable and ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
McCain on equal pay - Fact Checker
... and our own CIA) have proven they can in a relative short time alter the basic emotional and behavior patterns of captives, it is fair to assume that McCain's unpredictable and ...
more ...
go to website
Cached
Stephanopoulos: McCain Will Attend Debate Tonight
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: Republican presidential nominee John McCain will attend the debate tonight in Mississippi. The McCain campaign issued a statement saying that they are "resuming all activities and the Senator will travel to ...
more ...
go to website
Source: ABC News Blogs
NewsDateTime: 5 hours ago
September 2008 - Posts
John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign was made in the hopes that politics could be set aside to address our economic crisis. "In response, Americans saw a familiar spectacle in Washington.
more ...
go to website
Source: MSNBC Firstread
NewsDateTime: 8 hours ago
Obama camp calls McCain 'erratic'
... said the memo, which cited McCain’s “erratic, out-of-touch behavior ... from the maneuver, but his unpredictable week has prompted the Democrats to launch their most direct attacks on his character to date. Another Democratic official cited McCain's ...
more ...
go to website
Source: Politico.com
NewsDateTime: 9/26/2008
September 2008
Wow, that is not how Obama should have followed up on John McCain's poignant and personal story about a mother of a soldier ... Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center argues 2008 is the most unpredictable election in decades. “In every ...
more ...
go to website
Source: Weekly Standard
NewsDateTime: 9/26/2008
The Letterman-McCain feud continues: Day Two!
Then he went after McCain’s running mate with tonight's Top 10 list, “Top 10 Surprising Facts About Sarah Palin," recited via satellite by residents of Wasilla, Alaska. (No. 2:
more ...
go to website
Source: Los Angeles Times Blogs
NewsDateTime: 9/25/2008
8.30pm (all times eastern): There was always going to be a huge amount at stake tonight; we're expecting the biggest TV audience ever for a presidential debate. But McCain has upped the stakes massively. By agreeing to debate before finalising a bailout deal, it looked like he'd blinked; he needs a "win" tonight if he's to erase the air of hair-trigger rashness hanging over his campaign. So he's left with something to prove, even though the subject-matter — national security and foreign policy — is supposed to be his strongest suit. (He also needs to keep his notorious tetchiness in check: it'll be fascinating to see if Obama, a far cooler customer, tries in subtle ways to wind him up.) Obama's challenges are more longstanding. The conventional wisdom is that he needs to persuade America he'd make a credible commander-in-chief: most voters still prefer McCain for that role. Like McCain, he has a reputation as a not-particularly-good debater; Obama's fault is a tendency to longwindedness and condescension. More voters expect Obama to outperform McCain — but that, of course, only sets the expectations so as to reward McCain if he does minimally well. The venue for the debate is the stately Mississippi town of Oxford — specifically the campus of the University of Mississippi, once the scene of anti-desegregation riots. The audience includes many students and faculty, who apparently aren't pleased with McCain's recent antics. The moderator tonight is kindly, almond-eyed 74-year-old newscaster Jim Lehrer, who has moderated 10 of these debates already — more than anyone else. (He'll almost certainly ask a question or two about the economy.) As for the format: the 90-minute event will be divided into nine segments of nine minutes each, but exactly what happens in each one is unclear: the Obama campaign lawyer who helped negotiate the arrangement has described it as "unprecedented". In the first four minutes, Lehrer will ask a question of each of the candidates, and they'll reply, but the remaining five minutes are at Lehrer's discretion. That part could even involve the candidates debating each other directly. OK, I'm opening the Sierra Nevada now. Stand by... 8.56pm Lehrer is explaining his plans for the night to the audience. "No cellphones!... You all can talk among yourselves until I say hush, and that'll give you a few seconds to chill out." Jeez, OK. 9.00pm Here we go! As you can see from the picture, Lehrer faces the podiums (podia?), which are at right-angles to each other. (Jim Lehrer always looks a bit naturally startled to me, but I don't think he is, really. It's just his eyes.) "Tonight will primarily be about national security and foreign policy, which... includes global finance." Ah, clever. Obama and McCain enter and shake hands. Obama has his hand out first, and gets to grab McCain's forearm. Crucial dominant body language, according to some psychology book I once read. 9.02pm "At this very moment tonight, where do you stand on the financial recovery plan?" Obama lays out his plan and goes straight for the punch, condemning "failed policies... supported by Senator McCain." That didn't take long. McCain: "I do have a sad note tonight, Senator Kennedy is in the hospital tonight..." Feel the bipartisanship! (This is true. And sad. But McCain always does this.) He seems out-of-breath, but that's because he RACED IN from Washington. He sings the praises of the deal he didn't actually broker and that hasn't actually been brokered yet. "Debate each other!" Lehrer suggests now. 9.12pm They really don't want to debate each other. Lehrer just made Obama repeat a line about McCain — and his "fundamentals" line from a few days back — to McCain directly. "Are you worried I couldn't hear it?" McCain says. Lehrer is a rather strange man, I think. 9.14pm Lehrer: "Are there fundamental differences between your approach and Senator Obama's approach to what you would do as president to lead the country out of this?" Now McCain, railing against pork-barrel spending, is waving a felt-tip pen around -- "this one's kind of an old one" -- which he says he'd use to "veto every spending bill" that passed across his desk. Obama responds by pointing out that earmarking doesn't count for much government spending, compared to tax breaks for the wealthy. Also — what a rubbish pen. "I was called 'the Sheriff'," McCain says, chuckling, as part of an incredibly rambling answer about earmarking. I don't think anyone else laughed. Obama interrupts a McCain riff about how raising taxes is bad. "I don't know where John's getting his figures... When you look at your tax policies, you are neglecting people who are really struggling right now, and that is a continuation of the last eight years." He's not holding back on that theme. DRINK! "2,000, my friends, 2,000!" — it's something to do with earmarks, of course, it always is. More on taxes. "A lot of people might be interested in Senator Obama's definition of 'rich'," says McCain. According to scientists, that was the most foolish thing McCain could possibly say, since the only "definition of rich" anyone can remember was McCain's $5m-a-year definition. 9.25pm: A testy exchange on taxes. They're interrupting each other every few seconds now, accusing each other of not telling the truth. When McCain tries but fails to interrupt, he smiles thinly and chuckles. This is not advisable. Now we're onto another bailout question. What will you have to give up, as president, to pay for the bailout plan? Obama talks... and talks... McCain: "Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the Senate. It's hard to reach across the aisle from that far to the left." McCain smiles at his own joke; Obama gives a hilariously small and patronising chuckle, as if to spare McCain's blushes. 9.32pm: Obama just called McCain 'Tom', by "accident". Later he will call him 'Whatever-your-name-is,' or maybe 'Bernard'. Lehrer's getting testy at the two candidates' refusal to admit that they'll have no money left to do anything when they get into office, because Wall Street has collapsed and soon the money system will be suspended anyway and we will all have to start living in treehouses, scavenging for scraps. Scorecard so far: Barack Obama is winning if you measure by substantiveness of answers. John McCain is winning if you count number of years spent in a Vietnamese jail. 9.40pm: Election's over; John McCain just made the same joke twice in the same debate. "I wasn't nominated Miss Congeniality in the Senate," he says. This wasn't funny the first time. Oh, and: DRINK! Twice. "I'm a maverick of the Senate, and I'm proud to say I've got a maverick with me" as running-mate. Yet McCain is a maverick, I note, who's not wearing a flag-pin tonight — unlike secret Muslim Barack Obama. Interesting... And now we're onto foreign policy at last: Iraq. "John, you like to pretend like the war started in 2007; the war started in 2003..." — a long and punchy litany of McCain's smoke-and-mirrors rhetoric on the war, probably Obama's best performance so far tonight. Strange, seeing as how he's supposed to be better on the economy. McCain is lecturing Obama now on the difference between strategy and tactics, and how Obama "did the incredible thing of voting to cut off funding for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan." Obama's responds well — not too law-professory: both senators have voted against troop funding in certain contexts, he points out, because of disputes over whether or not to endorse a timetable for troop withdrawal. 9.49pm: They're completely talking over each other now. It's like BBC Radio 4's Today programme. 9.54pm: Pakistan. McCain is chastising Obama for threatening air strikes in public. That area hasn't been governed since the days of Alexander the Great, he points out, days McCain presumably remembers only too well. Obama says he hasn't threatened air strikes on Pakistan, and reminds the audience that McCain's recommendation of foreign-policy sobriety doesn't sit well with the fact that he "sings songs about bombing Iran." Ouch. Now. Let's address the matter of the 'audience reaction monitor', rolling along the bottom of the screen on CNN's feed. It's like a heart monitor, and it's designed to show the responses of groups of Republican, Democratic and Independent voters, to whom CNN, presumably, jhas given electronic dials. The problem is that it's always basically flat. When McCain talks, Republicans like it slightly more; when Obama talks, Democrats like it more. But basically it's flat. This tells us nothing about anything at all. ...Oh, but the Republicans with their dials do love McCain talking about all the mothers of troops he's met. The candidates are battling over the bracelets they wear from the mothers of deceased servicemen. Hmm. "I have a bracelet too!" says Obama. I don't. 10.05pm: Iran. "Let's have some straight talk," says McCain -- DRINK!, surely -- outlining his plan for a "league of democracies" that would impose sanctions on Iran. But overall the exchanges seem pretty evenly matched. Now McCain is talking about Obama's willingness to talk to America's enemies without precondition. He makes a big deal about stumbling on the pronunciation of 'Ahmedinejad' -- deliberately, I thought...? Obama responds that one of McCain's advisors, Henry Kissinger, recently endorsed the idea of speaking to Iran, but the rest of his explanation of the definition of "preconditions" for diplomatic contacts is pretty convoluted. Or maybe I've just had too much Sierra Nevada? 10.13pm: Obama gets in a nice zinger about McCain's weird Spain gaffe last week, but then McCain rouses himself and delivers probably his punchiest passage so far, repeatedly suggesting that Obama's approach is "dangerous". McCain waxes deeply sarcastic about the notion of Obama meeting Ahmedinejad and telling him off for wanting to "wipe Israel off the map", and Obama doesn't get his comeback in fast enough before Lehrer moves the discussion on. Advantage McCain, in purely political terms, I think... 10.20pm: And so to Russia. As Wikipedia notes in comments, we're going to have to start drinking every time McCain accuses Obama of not understanding something. Obama doesn't understand the Russia/Georgia situation, he says — but surprisingly, after being mocked on the very point by Obama, he decided to repeat his very, very odd remark about looking into Vladimir Putin's eyes and seeing the letters KGB. Putin wears shades most of the time anyway, doesn't he? Probably to cover up the embarrassing fact that he's got letters written on his eyes. 10.25pm: A clash on energy independence and alternative energy. Much interruption. McCain has started grinning broadly; Obama's doing it too now, as they both object to each other's claim that the other objected to alternative fuels. If you see what I mean. 10.27pm: Likelihood of another 9/11 attack? McCain: "Much less likely than the day after 9/11, but we're a long way from safe." Obama: "I think we are safer in some ways" — securing airports, etcetera — "but we have a long way to go." More "Obama doesn't understand" from McCain. His contempt for Obama is tangible — he can't look him in the eye, and sneers while he's speaking — but it makes for an undeniably strong performance. They're competing for the last word now. "There are some advantages to experience and knowledge, and I don't think Obama has the experience... we've seen this stubbornness before, in this administration" — McCain is accusing Obama of being too close to Bush. We live in interesting times. Obama tells a story about his Kenyan father's faith in the American dream, and how America isn't viewed in the same way around the world now as it was then. Some people will say that this means he hates America. McCain: "When I came home from prison..." Drink. He seems close to tears as he talks about helping veterans and "healing the wounds of war." ...Aaaand that's it. McCain gets the last word, but not in a particularly thunderous or resounding way. The two men shake hands, greet their wives, then shake hands with each others' wives, and then kindly, almond-eyed Jim Lehrer shakes various hands too. Well. This was clearly a much better night for McCain than many were expecting; after an unremarkable start, he appeared to find his ground on foreign policy, and delivered significantly more damaging blows to Obama than vice-versa; Obama missed too many opportunities, and was maybe too generous in many of his replies. Then again, various TV pundits are right now hotly debating the notion that McCain's dripping contempt for Obama -- and his strange, nervous grinning and chuckling, like some kind of chuckling maverick -- looked unpresidential, while the Democrat looked the part pretty much all the way through. Both of these arguments are clearly true. Which one triumphs? A win for McCain, I'd say, especially given the expectations. But not a decisive one, or a knockout, by any means. But what do I know? I've drunk a whole third of one bottle of Sierra Nevada. 11.36pm: ...Actually, just before I go: in a CBS instant poll of uncommitted voters, 40% awarded the debate to Obama, 22% to McCain, the rest thought it was a draw. So don't let anyone tell you it was a win for McCain yet -- like, say, I just did.
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Like so much in this election cycle, tonight's scheduled presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., is historic: never in the 48-year history of televised debates has a presidential face-off been so much in doubt mere hours before it was supposed to commence. Such is the depth of the nation's financial crisis and the creativity — selfless or craven, depending on your point of view — that until this morning, we didn't know if Jim Lehrer would have anyone to pose questions to. But now that John McCain has committed to turning up, he and Barack Obama will take the stage tonight with their rhetoric and demeanor set to a specific temperature. "Do you want a hot debate or a cold debate?" asks Stuart Stevens, a Republican media consultant, author and screenwriter who helped prep George W. Bush for his encounters with Al Gore in 2000. "You have to decide." According to an unscientific sampling of political consultants who have prepared candidates for presidential debates in years past, McCain will probably come out hot, with killer one-liners spilling from his lips. "McCain needs a hot debate," says Scott Reed, who managed Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign. "He needs to pin Obama's ears back on not being ready to be President. A subtle message from the debate has to be that this guy's not ready for prime time." It makes sense, of course, that the candidate who is behind — as McCain is, however slightly, in most national polls — should be the aggressor in the first debate, especially since this one is scheduled to focus on foreign policy, McCain's supposed strong suit. One way to do that, says Stevens, would be for McCain to try to force Obama into conceding that the "surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq has been an unqualified success. Obama has admitted as much already in recent interviews. But having to do it onstage with McCain would be the debate equivalent of eating crow in front of 80 million viewers. Other options for McCain to go "hot" on foreign policy: make news by attacking some aspect of the Bush Administration's record, either its early strategy in Iraq or its high-handed refusal to take climate change seriously. Alternately, he could get into a contest with Obama over who has the mettle to force Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. "They need a game changer," says Reed.
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Obama's task would seem to be simpler. As the candidate with the momentum, owing to the unraveling of the financial markets, the Democrat will probably try to steer as many questions as possible — however internationally oriented in the asking — toward the shambolic state of the U.S. economy. This would be the "cool" approach: stick to his strength, convey calm, and gracefully clear the bar of appearing presidential under pressure. But according to these debate-prep experts, it's just as likely that Obama could try for a hot debate. "My gut is that Obama will be very aggressive," says Stevens. "He'll go in and not hesitate to prosecute what he sees as McCain's poor foreign policy judgments. That's what he did in his acceptance speech [at the Democratic Convention]. I think he feels it. I think he'll argue that his judgment was more prescient on Iraq, and he'll go from there." If he does, adds Stevens, "that exchange could be a real opportunity for McCain." Whether hot or cold, says Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist who helped steer Howard Dean's meteoric 2004 campaign, Obama would be wise to keep a few scraps of advice in mind. First, he should keep his answers crisp. "I would tell him to go back to his appellate argument skills and answer the question like he's answering the judge, so he doesn't bury the lead," says McMahon. "In law school, there's an old adage: answer the question first, then explain it. When you're a gifted orator, as Obama is, sometimes you explain your answer while you're giving it. That works well in a speech. But it doesn't always translate in a debate." That's the polite way of saying that in the seemingly endless series of debates during the Democratic primaries, Obama often meandered through his answers, as if the prize went to the candidate who could produce the greatest quantity of well-spoken prose rather than the one who made the most trenchant points. A final piece of advice, valuable to both Obama and McCain: Never forget you're on camera. McMahon says he used to tell Dean to prepare for new debates by watching tapes of old ones with the sound off, because viewers judge performance as much by visual cues as by verbal ones. "You have to remember that how you look and how commanding you appear is often more important than what you say," says McMahon. "And don't forget the cutaways. When your opponent is answering, you tend to think you're off camera. But you're not. If you scowl or shake your head, viewers are going to see it." And bad body language can turn any debate performance — hot or cold — into a dud.
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Like so much in this election cycle, tonight's scheduled presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., is historic: never in the 48-year history of televised debates has a presidential face-off been so much in doubt mere hours before it was supposed to commence. Such is the depth of the nation's financial crisis and the creativity — selfless or craven, depending on your point of view — that until this morning, we didn't know if Jim Lehrer would have anyone to pose questions to. But now that John McCain has committed to turning up, he and Barack Obama will take the stage tonight with their rhetoric and demeanor set to a specific temperature. "Do you want a hot debate or a cold debate?" asks Stuart Stevens, a Republican media consultant, author and screenwriter who helped prep George W. Bush for his encounters with Al Gore in 2000. "You have to decide." According to an unscientific sampling of political consultants who have prepared candidates for presidential debates in years past, McCain will probably come out hot, with killer one-liners spilling from his lips. "McCain needs a hot debate," says Scott Reed, who managed Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign. "He needs to pin Obama's ears back on not being ready to be President. A subtle message from the debate has to be that this guy's not ready for prime time." It makes sense, of course, that the candidate who is behind — as McCain is, however slightly, in most national polls — should be the aggressor in the first debate, especially since this one is scheduled to focus on foreign policy, McCain's supposed strong suit. One way to do that, says Stevens, would be for McCain to try to force Obama into conceding that the "surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq has been an unqualified success. Obama has admitted as much already in recent interviews. But having to do it onstage with McCain would be the debate equivalent of eating crow in front of 80 million viewers. Other options for McCain to go "hot" on foreign policy: make news by attacking some aspect of the Bush Administration's record, either its early strategy in Iraq or its high-handed refusal to take climate change seriously. Alternately, he could get into a contest with Obama over who has the mettle to force Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. "They need a game changer," says Reed.
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Obama's task would seem to be simpler. As the candidate with the momentum, owing to the unraveling of the financial markets, the Democrat will probably try to steer as many questions as possible — however internationally oriented in the asking — toward the shambolic state of the U.S. economy. This would be the "cool" approach: stick to his strength, convey calm, and gracefully clear the bar of appearing presidential under pressure. But according to these debate-prep experts, it's just as likely that Obama could try for a hot debate. "My gut is that Obama will be very aggressive," says Stevens. "He'll go in and not hesitate to prosecute what he sees as McCain's poor foreign policy judgments. That's what he did in his acceptance speech [at the Democratic Convention]. I think he feels it. I think he'll argue that his judgment was more prescient on Iraq, and he'll go from there." If he does, adds Stevens, "that exchange could be a real opportunity for McCain." Whether hot or cold, says Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist who helped steer Howard Dean's meteoric 2004 campaign, Obama would be wise to keep a few scraps of advice in mind. First, he should keep his answers crisp. "I would tell him to go back to his appellate argument skills and answer the question like he's answering the judge, so he doesn't bury the lead," says McMahon. "In law school, there's an old adage: answer the question first, then explain it. When you're a gifted orator, as Obama is, sometimes you explain your answer while you're giving it. That works well in a speech. But it doesn't always translate in a debate." That's the polite way of saying that in the seemingly endless series of debates during the Democratic primaries, Obama often meandered through his answers, as if the prize went to the candidate who could produce the greatest quantity of well-spoken prose rather than the one who made the most trenchant points. A final piece of advice, valuable to both Obama and McCain: Never forget you're on camera. McMahon says he used to tell Dean to prepare for new debates by watching tapes of old ones with the sound off, because viewers judge performance as much by visual cues as by verbal ones. "You have to remember that how you look and how commanding you appear is often more important than what you say," says McMahon. "And don't forget the cutaways. When your opponent is answering, you tend to think you're off camera. But you're not. If you scowl or shake your head, viewers are going to see it." And bad body language can turn any debate performance — hot or cold — into a dud.
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After a week of high political theatre and national uncertainty, Barack Obama and John McCain traded jabs Friday night over the financial crisis that is threatening to plunge the United States into severe economic recession. In the first of three scheduled presidential debates ahead of the November election, the two candidates also sparred intensely over the U.S. war in Iraq, with McCain accusing Obama of being willing to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" by withdrawing troops too soon. Obama countered that McCain was "wrong" about the war from the start. Obama went on the attack almost immediately in the 90-minute debate, but McCain also consistently sought to unnerve Obama, at one point mocking the Illinois senator as naive for saying he would negotiate with Iran. People watch the first televised presidential debate between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama Democratic in Los Angeles on September 26, 2008. White House hopefuls Obama and McCain spelled out their economic priorities in the debate opening exchanges devoted to Wall Street's financial crisis. On the financial crisis now dominating the nation's politics, Obama criticized McCain for saying last week the fundamentals of the economy were strong. He cast the Arizona senator as an ideological twin of President George W. Bush. "This is a final verdict on eight years of failed economic policies promoted by George Bush, supported by Senator McCain," Obama said in the opening exchange of the debate at the University of Mississippi. "(It's) the theory that basically said we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most and somehow prosperity will trickle down. It hasn't worked." McCain, addressing the recent string of corporate failures, laid the blame for the crisis at the feet of Wall Street executives who had betrayed the trust of American investors. "Greed is rewarded. Excess is rewarded and corruption . . . is rewarded," said McCain, the Republican nominee. "As president of the United States, people are going to be held accountable in my administration."
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Obama remained on the offensive, saying McCain was out of touch with the economic reality of ordinary taxpayers and voters. "Ten days ago, you said the fundamentals of the economy are strong. I just fundamentally disagree," Obama said. It was a debate that almost didn't happen. Obama and McCain met at the University of Mississippi only after a last-minute reversal by the Republican candidate. McCain's campaign had earlier said the senator would not attend debate unless lawmakers in Washington had agreed on legislation authorizing a $700-billion bailout of troubled U.S. banks. With Capitol Hill talks still in limbo early Friday, McCain faced a difficult choice: Remain in Washington and turn the national TV spotlight over to Obama for 90 minutes, or step back from his original pledge. McCain said he decided to debate because there appeared to be progress in negotiations. "As we're here tonight in this debate, we are seeing, for the first time in a long time, Republicans and Democrats together, sitting down, trying to work out a solution to this fiscal crisis that we're in," he said. McCain said the bailout of troubled financial institutions would mean severe belt tightening in Washington, and portrayed Obama as an extreme liberal who couldn't practise fiscal restraint. "It's hard to reach across the aisle from that far on the left," McCain said. Obama acknowledged "there are going to have to be things that have to be deferred and delayed," citing possible cuts to his ambitious plans to pursue new, alternative energy sources. "There may be individual components of it that we can't do," Obama said. The debate quickly turned to foreign policy and national security. Asked to describe the lessons the U.S. should take from the war in Iraq, McCain said it was clear the Bush administration had botched the initial strategy. "You cannot have a failed strategy that will then cause you to nearly lose a conflict," McCain said. "The war in Iraq was very badly mishandled (at the start)." But he said the U.S. troop surge has dramatically changed the picture. "We are winning in Iraq (and) we will come home with victory and with honour." Obama, who opposed the Iraq invasion from the start, said the war had diverted America's attention from the fight against al-Qaida terrorists in Afghanistan. "Al-Qaida is resurgent, stronger now than any time since 2001. We took our eye off the ball," Obama said. Later, he added, "bin Laden is still out there. He is not captured. He is not killed." Speaking directly to McCain, Obama said the Republican candidate seemed to believe the war began in 2007 - with the U.S. troop surge - and not in 2003. "At the time when the war started, you said it was going to be quick and easy. You said we knew where the weapons of mass destruction were. You were wrong," Obama said. "You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators. You were wrong. You said that there was no history of violence between Shia and Sunni. And you were wrong." McCain shot back: "Senator Obama refuses to acknowledge we are winning in Iraq." Obama repeated his long-held promise to sharply increase the number of American troops in Afghanistan and reminded viewers that McCain once said the U.S. could "muddle through" in the country. "You don't muddle through the central war on terror and you don't muddle through going after bin Laden." Replied McCain: "You might think that with that kind of concern, that Senator Obama would have gone to Afghanistan." Obama visited Afghanistan for the first time in July. The most heated exchange, however, came on U.S. policy towards Iran, particularly whether the next U.S. president should open high-level talks with Tehran's leadership. McCain blasted Obama for saying he was prepared as president to negotiate with any leader, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "It isn't just naive, it's dangerous," McCain said. Obama insisted he reserved "the right as president of the United States to meet with anybody at the time and place of my choosing, if I think it is going to keep America as a country safe." He added: "It doesn't mean you invite them over for tea one day." But McCain mocked Obama as naive. "So let me get this right. We sit down with Ahmadinejad, and he says, 'We're going to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth,' and we say, 'No, you're not?' Oh, please." The partisan wrangling that dominated negotiations on the financial rescue package in Washington followed both candidates to the debate in Mississippi. Obama, as he has done throughout the campaign, portrayed McCain as a carbon copy of Bush. "John, it's been your president, who you said you agreed with 90 percent of the time, who presided over this increase in spending," he said. "This orgy of spending and enormous deficits you voted for almost all of his budgets. So to stand here after eight years and say that you're going to lead on controlling spending . . . is, you know, kind of hard to swallow." McCain immediately highlighted his repeated clashes with the Bush administration. "I have opposed the president on spending, on climate change, on torture of prisoners, on Guantanamo Bay, on the way that the Iraq War was conducted," he said. "The American people know me very well and that is independent and a maverick of the Senate." The stakes Friday night were enormous for both candidates, but pre-debate polls suggested McCain needed the stronger performance. Five national polls released this week showed Obama leading McCain, with an average 4.2 percentage-point margin of advantage. The campaign remains a dead-heat in the 13 most closely-contested battleground states, with Obama leading in seven and McCain in six. The meeting had historical resonance. Forty-six years ago, riots erupted on the University of Mississippi campus when James Meredith became the school's first black student. On Friday, the school hosted the nation's first black presidential candidate. The second presidential debate is set for Oct. 7 in Nashville, with a third on Oct. 15 at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY. The two vice presidential candidates - Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin - will meet Oct. 2 at Washington University in St. Louis.
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After a week of high political theatre and national uncertainty, Barack Obama and John McCain traded jabs Friday night over the financial crisis that is threatening to plunge the United States into severe economic recession. In the first of three scheduled presidential debates ahead of the November election, the two candidates also sparred intensely over the U.S. war in Iraq, with McCain accusing Obama of being willing to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" by withdrawing troops too soon. Obama countered that McCain was "wrong" about the war from the start. Obama went on the attack almost immediately in the 90-minute debate, but McCain also consistently sought to unnerve Obama, at one point mocking the Illinois senator as naive for saying he would negotiate with Iran. People watch the first televised presidential debate between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama Democratic in Los Angeles on September 26, 2008. White House hopefuls Obama and McCain spelled out their economic priorities in the debate opening exchanges devoted to Wall Street's financial crisis. On the financial crisis now dominating the nation's politics, Obama criticized McCain for saying last week the fundamentals of the economy were strong. He cast the Arizona senator as an ideological twin of President George W. Bush. "This is a final verdict on eight years of failed economic policies promoted by George Bush, supported by Senator McCain," Obama said in the opening exchange of the debate at the University of Mississippi. "(It's) the theory that basically said we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most and somehow prosperity will trickle down. It hasn't worked." McCain, addressing the recent string of corporate failures, laid the blame for the crisis at the feet of Wall Street executives who had betrayed the trust of American investors. "Greed is rewarded. Excess is rewarded and corruption . . . is rewarded," said McCain, the Republican nominee. "As president of the United States, people are going to be held accountable in my administration."
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Barack Obama and John McCain have gone back to school to prepare for the crucial examination that may decide who wins the election: the first presidential debate this Friday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Liberal and Democrat vs. conservative and Republican. Taller, younger and black vs. shorter, older and white. It was a night of contrasts as Barack Obama and John McCain shared a stage in their first of three presidential debates ...
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Analysis: Barack Obama wins the debate over the debate
Campaigning's being put on hold by Republican John McCain, who wants to pull out of a debate on Friday. That's something his rival hasn't agreed to do. Democrat Barack Obama believes the parties need to work together. ; http://link.brightcove.com ...
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Source: Daily Telegraph
NewsDateTime: 9/25/2008
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Source: San Francisco Gate
NewsDateTime: 9/26/2008
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Obama remained on the offensive, saying McCain was out of touch with the economic reality of ordinary taxpayers and voters. "Ten days ago, you said the fundamentals of the economy are strong. I just fundamentally disagree," Obama said. It was a debate that almost didn't happen. Obama and McCain met at the University of Mississippi only after a last-minute reversal by the Republican candidate. McCain's campaign had earlier said the senator would not attend debate unless lawmakers in Washington had agreed on legislation authorizing a $700-billion bailout of troubled U.S. banks. With Capitol Hill talks still in limbo early Friday, McCain faced a difficult choice: Remain in Washington and turn the national TV spotlight over to Obama for 90 minutes, or step back from his original pledge. McCain said he decided to debate because there appeared to be progress in negotiations. "As we're here tonight in this debate, we are seeing, for the first time in a long time, Republicans and Democrats together, sitting down, trying to work out a solution to this fiscal crisis that we're in," he said. McCain said the bailout of troubled financial institutions would mean severe belt tightening in Washington, and portrayed Obama as an extreme liberal who couldn't practise fiscal restraint. "It's hard to reach across the aisle from that far on the left," McCain said. Obama acknowledged "there are going to have to be things that have to be deferred and delayed," citing possible cuts to his ambitious plans to pursue new, alternative energy sources. "There may be individual components of it that we can't do," Obama said. The debate quickly turned to foreign policy and national security. Asked to describe the lessons the U.S. should take from the war in Iraq, McCain said it was clear the Bush administration had botched the initial strategy. "You cannot have a failed strategy that will then cause you to nearly lose a conflict," McCain said. "The war in Iraq was very badly mishandled (at the start)." But he said the U.S. troop surge has dramatically changed the picture. "We are winning in Iraq (and) we will come home with victory and with honour." Obama, who opposed the Iraq invasion from the start, said the war had diverted America's attention from the fight against al-Qaida terrorists in Afghanistan. "Al-Qaida is resurgent, stronger now than any time since 2001. We took our eye off the ball," Obama said. Later, he added, "bin Laden is still out there. He is not captured. He is not killed." Speaking directly to McCain, Obama said the Republican candidate seemed to believe the war began in 2007 - with the U.S. troop surge - and not in 2003. "At the time when the war started, you said it was going to be quick and easy. You said we knew where the weapons of mass destruction were. You were wrong," Obama said. "You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators. You were wrong. You said that there was no history of violence between Shia and Sunni. And you were wrong." McCain shot back: "Senator Obama refuses to acknowledge we are winning in Iraq." Obama repeated his long-held promise to sharply increase the number of American troops in Afghanistan and reminded viewers that McCain once said the U.S. could "muddle through" in the country. "You don't muddle through the central war on terror and you don't muddle through going after bin Laden." Replied McCain: "You might think that with that kind of concern, that Senator Obama would have gone to Afghanistan." Obama visited Afghanistan for the first time in July. The most heated exchange, however, came on U.S. policy towards Iran, particularly whether the next U.S. president should open high-level talks with Tehran's leadership. McCain blasted Obama for saying he was prepared as president to negotiate with any leader, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "It isn't just naive, it's dangerous," McCain said. Obama insisted he reserved "the right as president of the United States to meet with anybody at the time and place of my choosing, if I think it is going to keep America as a country safe." He added: "It doesn't mean you invite them over for tea one day." But McCain mocked Obama as naive. "So let me get this right. We sit down with Ahmadinejad, and he says, 'We're going to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth,' and we say, 'No, you're not?' Oh, please." The partisan wrangling that dominated negotiations on the financial rescue package in Washington followed both candidates to the debate in Mississippi. Obama, as he has done throughout the campaign, portrayed McCain as a carbon copy of Bush. "John, it's been your president, who you said you agreed with 90 percent of the time, who presided over this increase in spending," he said. "This orgy of spending and enormous deficits you voted for almost all of his budgets. So to stand here after eight years and say that you're going to lead on controlling spending . . . is, you know, kind of hard to swallow." McCain immediately highlighted his repeated clashes with the Bush administration. "I have opposed the president on spending, on climate change, on torture of prisoners, on Guantanamo Bay, on the way that the Iraq War was conducted," he said. "The American people know me very well and that is independent and a maverick of the Senate." The stakes Friday night were enormous for both candidates, but pre-debate polls suggested McCain needed the stronger performance. Five national polls released this week showed Obama leading McCain, with an average 4.2 percentage-point margin of advantage. The campaign remains a dead-heat in the 13 most closely-contested battleground states, with Obama leading in seven and McCain in six. The meeting had historical resonance. Forty-six years ago, riots erupted on the University of Mississippi campus when James Meredith became the school's first black student. On Friday, the school hosted the nation's first black presidential candidate. The second presidential debate is set for Oct. 7 in Nashville, with a third on Oct. 15 at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY. The two vice presidential candidates - Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin - will meet Oct. 2 at Washington University in St. Louis.
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John McCain accused Barack Obama of being an extreme liberal on spending, while Obama accused his rival of being President Bush’s protege, at their first presidential debate of the campaign. Both candidates accused each other of being fiscally reckless, as they tried to convince voters of their own ability to handle the current economic crisis confounding lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The debate, at the University of Mississippi, was intended to focus on foreign policy but moderator Jim Lehrer kept the candidates on the economy for the first 40 minutes. “Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate. It’s hard to reach across the aisle from that far left,” McCain said, casting himself as the scourge of pork-barrel spenders and accusing Obama of heedlessly requesting nearly $1 billion in earmarks in his first Senate term. Obama accused his rival of wanting to follow “the policies of President Bush” by giving massive tax cuts to the wealthiest corporations. “You voted for almost all of (Bush’s) budgets,” Obama said. “To stand here after almost eight years and say your’e gonna lead on controlling spending … I think is just kind of hard to swallow.” In the opening moments of the debate, both candidates said they felt optimistic about the negotiations over financial bailout legislation on Capitol Hill. “We have to move swiftly, and we have to move wisely,” Obama said. “I’m feeling a little better tonight,” McCain said. “We are seeing for the first time in a long time, Republicans and Democrats together sitting down trying to work out a solution to this fiscal crisis that we’re in.” Asked directly whether he intends to vote for a rescue plan taking shape in Congress, McCain said, “I hope so.” “We haven’t seen the language yet,” Obama said. “I do think there is constructive work being done.”
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The two rivals took the stage at the University of Mississippi after a week of wrangling over the rescue package, and a set of surprise maneuvers by McCain’s campaign. It was only late Friday morning that debate organizers found out for certain the prime-time match-up would be going forward. McCain on Wednesday called for the debate to be delayed until lawmakers took action on the financial rescue package, but in an announcement shortly before noon Friday said he would travel to Oxford. The political jockeying, both on the campaign trail and on Capitol Hill, coupled with ongoing financial turmoil, placed the economy at the forefront of a debate that was intended to focus squarely on foreign policy. But the debate was a chance for McCain to regain his footing, since foreign policy is considered his strong suit. The Republican presidential nominee took a political risk by suspending his campaign Wednesday to head to Washington to work on the legislation, and got bruised Thursday after Democrats and Obama’s campaign accused him of disrupting the delicate negotiations. But it was also a chance for Obama to add insult to injury, and needle McCain for his surprise decisions of the best two days. The high-stakes summit Thursday with President Bush, congressional leaders and both presidential candidates, ended on, by all accounts, a bad note. On Friday, though, senior lawmakers expressed optimistic they were getting back on track and moving toward an agreement.
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John McCain accused Barack Obama of being an extreme liberal on spending, while Obama accused his rival of being President Bush’s protege, at their first presidential debate of the campaign. Both candidates accused each other of being fiscally reckless, as they tried to convince voters of their own ability to handle the current economic crisis confounding lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The debate, at the University of Mississippi, was intended to focus on foreign policy but moderator Jim Lehrer kept the candidates on the economy for the first 40 minutes. “Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate. It’s hard to reach across the aisle from that far left,” McCain said, casting himself as the scourge of pork-barrel spenders and accusing Obama of heedlessly requesting nearly $1 billion in earmarks in his first Senate term. Obama accused his rival of wanting to follow “the policies of President Bush” by giving massive tax cuts to the wealthiest corporations. “You voted for almost all of (Bush’s) budgets,” Obama said. “To stand here after almost eight years and say your’e gonna lead on controlling spending … I think is just kind of hard to swallow.” In the opening moments of the debate, both candidates said they felt optimistic about the negotiations over financial bailout legislation on Capitol Hill. “We have to move swiftly, and we have to move wisely,” Obama said. “I’m feeling a little better tonight,” McCain said. “We are seeing for the first time in a long time, Republicans and Democrats together sitting down trying to work out a solution to this fiscal crisis that we’re in.” Asked directly whether he intends to vote for a rescue plan taking shape in Congress, McCain said, “I hope so.” “We haven’t seen the language yet,” Obama said. “I do think there is constructive work being done.”
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The two rivals took the stage at the University of Mississippi after a week of wrangling over the rescue package, and a set of surprise maneuvers by McCain’s campaign. It was only late Friday morning that debate organizers found out for certain the prime-time match-up would be going forward. McCain on Wednesday called for the debate to be delayed until lawmakers took action on the financial rescue package, but in an announcement shortly before noon Friday said he would travel to Oxford. The political jockeying, both on the campaign trail and on Capitol Hill, coupled with ongoing financial turmoil, placed the economy at the forefront of a debate that was intended to focus squarely on foreign policy. But the debate was a chance for McCain to regain his footing, since foreign policy is considered his strong suit. The Republican presidential nominee took a political risk by suspending his campaign Wednesday to head to Washington to work on the legislation, and got bruised Thursday after Democrats and Obama’s campaign accused him of disrupting the delicate negotiations. But it was also a chance for Obama to add insult to injury, and needle McCain for his surprise decisions of the best two days. The high-stakes summit Thursday with President Bush, congressional leaders and both presidential candidates, ended on, by all accounts, a bad note. On Friday, though, senior lawmakers expressed optimistic they were getting back on track and moving toward an agreement.
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