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- Fariska0
1000!
- Hahhaha fail!!!!uncle_helv
- you bastard!Fariska
- How very McCain-like. Lose, but declare victory!TheBlueOne
- KwesiJ0
1002!
- TheBlueOne0
When the election is over the QBN needs to package this entire thread as a book on LuLu or something. It'll be one for the ages...
- BonSeff0
- ZOMG!!!!!!!mg33
- shit happens..robotron3k
- is that Neutra?********
- Jnr_Madison0
"My kid saw Sarah Palin on TV and said, 'There's Mommy.' "
– Tina Fey, on what made her finally acknowledge the physical resemblance between her and the GOP veep candidate, at the Emmys
- CALLES0
GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT QBN!!!
- robotron3k0
damn, just missed sarah palin swimsuit editon video... the young punk who posted bragged of more to come...
- mg330
LMAO - I looked up "presidential debate schedule" on google, and found this great yahoo answers page:
http://answers.yahoo.com/questio…
Check out the reply on the bottom:
"I am running for president and I am personally upset that I cannot get any recognition from the media sources just because I am a poor person that does not have the money to spend or back a campaign. CNN and FOX should equally represent all of the candidates."
- dbloc0
All dates and times are of course tentative and subject to change. Many specific details for certain dates are as of yet unknown.
September 12 – Democratic Debate – Yahoo!/Slate/The Time unknown. Online only.
September 20 – Democratic Debate – PBS. 8PM EST.
September 26 – Democratic Debate – MSNBC. Time unknown.
September 27 – Republican Debate - PBS. Time unknown.October 14 – Republican Debate – ABC. Time unknown.
October 21 – Democratic Debate – ABC. Time unknown.
October 21 – Republican Debate – FOX News. Time unknown.
October 25 – Republican Debate – PBS. 8PM EST.
October 30 – Democratic Debate – MSNBC/NBC News. Time unknown.November 6 – Republican Debate – MSNBC. Time unknown.
November 15 – Democratic Debate – CNN. Time unknown.
November 28 - Republican Debate – CNN/YouTube. Time unknown.December 10 – Democratic Debate – CBS. Time unknown.
December 17 – Democratic Debate – CNN/The Politico. Time unknown.2008 (all initial caucus and primary dates are now subject and indeed likely to change thanks to SC’s moving up of their Republican primary)
January 1-2 – "MySpace primary"
January 5 – Republican Debate – Network unknown. Time unknown.
January 6 – Democratic Debate – Network unknown. Time unknown.
January 9 – Republican Debate – NPR. Time unknown.
January 10 – Democratic Debate – NPR. Time unknown.
January 14 – Iowa Caucuses
January 15 - Michigan Primary
January 15 – Democratic Debate – Network unknown. Time unknown.
January 19 – Nevada Caucuses; South Carolina Republican Primary
January 22 – New Hampshire Primary
January 24 – Democratic Debate – CNN/Congressional Black Caucus Institute. Time unknown.
January 29 – South Carolina Democratic Primary; Florida Primary
January 30 – Republican Debate – CNN/LA Times/The Time unknown.
January 31 – Democratic Debate – CNN/LA Times. Time unknown.
- dbloc0
The two campaigns agreed today on a framework for four General Election debates, to be sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Key elements of the agreement are:
1. First Presidential Debate:
- Date: September 26
- Site: University of Mississippi
- Topic: Foreign Policy & National Security
- Moderator: Jim Lehrer
- Staging: Podium debate
- Answer Format: The debate will be broken into nine, 9-minute segments. The moderator will introduce a topic and allow each candidate 2 minutes to comment. After these initial answers, the moderator will facilitate an open discussion of the topic for the remaining 5 minutes, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment2. Vice Presidential Debate
- Date: October 2nd
- Site: Washington University (St. Louis)
- Moderator: Gwen Ifill
- Staging/Answer Format: To be resolved after both parties' Vice Presidential nominees are selected.3. Second Presidential Debate
- Date: October 7
- Site: Belmont University
- Moderator: Tom Brokaw
- Staging: Town Hall debate
- Format: The moderator will call on members of the audience (and draw questions from the internet). Each candidate will have 2 minutes to respond to each question. Following those initial answers, the moderator will invite the candidates to respond to the previous answers, for a total of 1 minute, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment. In the spirit of the Town Hall, all questions will come from the audience (or internet), and not the moderator.4. Third Presidential Debate
- Date: October 15
- Site: Hofstra University
- Topic: Domestic and Economic policy
- Moderator: Bob Schieffer
- Staging: Candidates will be seated at a table
- Answer Format: Same as First Presidential Debate
- Closing Statements: At the end of this debate (only) each candidate shall have the opportunity for a 90 second closing statement.All four debates will begin at 9pm ET, and last for 90 minutes. Both campaigns also agreed to accept the CPD's participation rules for third-party candidate participation.
- i bet obama was wishing there would be more VP debates nowcolin_s
- BattleAxe0
Tonight at 9EST!
- dbloc0
CNN Full Coverage, 8p ET but I'm sure that includes an hour pre-show
- dbloc0
- Man, I wish I had a cigarette right now.GeorgesII
- me too...I quit 8 months ago.dbloc
- I quit 2 months ago, and I don't want one. Even Obama doesnt smoke anymore,..pft.mikotondria3
- TheBlueOne0
"The press is 6-year-olds playing soccer; nobody has a position, it’s just ”Where’s the ball? Where’s the ball? Sarah Palin has the ball!” [Mimes a mob running after her.] Because they can only cover one thing."
- Jon Stewart, in the new Entertainment Weekly
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,…
- robotron3k0
McCain's Debate notes LEAKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- hallelujah0
"After days of saying that John McCain would not attend Friday's presidential debate unless an agreement on a bailout package for the markets was "locked-down," the McCain campaign has gone back on its word.
On Friday, it announced that the Senator would head down to Mississippi even though, as they readily admit, much work remained needed on the bailout agreement.
The whole episode left even conservatives admitting that the McCain campaign looked erratic and a bit foolish with no apparent direction or guiding principle.
"It just proves his campaign is governed by tactics and not ideology," said Republican consultant Craig Shirley, who advised McCain earlier in this cycle. "In the end, he blinked and Obama did not. The 'steady hand in a storm' argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain."
Shirley added, "My guess is that plasma units are rushing to the McCain campaign as we speak to replace the blood flowing there from the fights among the staff."
Adding to the rocky perception was a McCain campaign web ad released this morning declaring "McCain Wins Debate!" -- put out even before the candidate had announced he was planning to debate.
Aides to Barack Obama were not, generally, surprised by the announcement, though nonetheless pleased. One called the Arizona Republican's gambit - of leaving the trail to supposedly forge a compromise on the bailout - a "failure." Other Democrats were equally biting in describing the moment.
"It means that people think he went back on his word," said Howard Wolfson, formerly the communications director for Hillary Clinton. "John McCain's presidential campaign has been in a death spiral since the Wall Street collapse and this summit gambit was an attempt to pull out of it. But it hasn't succeeded because McCain hasn't done anything to move the ball forward."
Allies of McCain tried to put the best spin on the announcement, saying that while the bailout legislation was not yet completed, McCain thought it best to address the nation.
"What's more important than anything that when we go to Mississippi tonight, both candidates can say that the Congress is working," said Sen. Lindsay Graham
But others couldn't help but admit that the Arizona Republican had mismanaged the whole scenario, basically walking himself into a corner, stuck with the choice of looking either scared or unprincipled.
"He will been seen as blinking first," Shirley declared, "since it was he who said he wasn't going until the crisis is averted. Hobson's choice, painted in a corner, bollixed -- pick your poison, or pick your cliche."
