1.0 link 135179 <![CDATA[America Finally Gets a Presidential Debate, Because Candidates Gave Them One]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-deggans/america-finally-gets-a-pr_b_135179.html Viewers Thursday night finally got something closely resembling a debate between the two candidates for president -- though moderator Bob Schieffer, good as he was, didn't have a lot to do with it.

I'm crediting instead all the complaints about the last two debates between John McCain and Barack Obama, in which both men avoided questions they didn't like and ran over time limits like a crowd of shoppers at a Christmas Eve sale.

Clearly, the format of this debate also fed...

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