2nd Debate

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Why does John McCain hate planetariums?

Phil Plait | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Planetaria show us the beauty and grandeur of the Universe, and shouldn't be cynically relegated to being a political bludgeon used to score cheap points.

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Profiles in Cowardice

Dave Winer | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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It's time to back off the precipice, Ms. Palin and Mr. McCain.

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"That One" Wins

Nancy Snow | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Obama has erased lingering doubts that he is ready for the Prime Time Presidency, while McCain raised more doubts that he has the energy or interest in the job.

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"That Won": Twitter's Wit on the Second Presidential Debate

Nick Douglas | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

My God, does he realize how much gas it will take to drive to the moon?! — michael

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Elmer Fudd and His Gosh-Darned Overhead Projector, Jell-O, and Obama to Voters: We Are Sick of Shopping

Lily Koppel | Posted 11.08.2008 | Style

John McCain seemed old and out of touch. The Republican candidate looked like he should have gone to the bathroom before the debate started.

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Echoes of Kennedy-Nixon, Clinton-Dole

Terrence McNally | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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We all know about the difference between the responses of those who listened to the first Kennedy-Nixon debate on the radio versus those who watched it on television. I did both last night and the same was true.

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McCain Fizzles as Obama Sizzles

Michael Carmichael | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

In the course of the debate, McCain was outclassed, outgunned and outrun, time and time and time again. Obama's performance was so commanding that he barely noticed a petulant McCain.

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Knowing What You Don't Know

Jon Raymond | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home

Last night's debate came close to a Donald Rumsfeld press conference: "As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know..."

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"That One"

Alec Sokolow | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics

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John McCain dehumanized Barack Obama. He just did what serial killers do. Could it be possible that he actually thinks Barack Obama is an "it" and not a "he"?

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The Answer We Needed to Hear

Howard Schweber | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Obama's answer to the first question of the night was fine -- anodyne, uninspiring, reasonable, and utterly uninspiring.

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Reading The Pictures: Citizen Anger, Pakistan slam, Michelle Love, And McCain As A Blur

Michael Shaw | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

In the early phase of the debate, there wasn't a drop of humor in that room. As McCain and Obama offered generalities, these people weren't even close to buying it.

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Worse Than "That One"

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

For me, the more worrisome moment of the debate came when McCain told a young, black questioner, "You've probably never heard of Fannie Mae."

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The Subliminal Slam-Dunk

Mary Lyon | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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The body language and other nonverbals put Obama decisively over the top, because it said more about the character issue for the two candidates and their wives than anyone's verbiage.

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Not a Whole Lot of "Town," and Other Town Hall Debate Reactions

Paul Reiser | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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Well, for a town-hall meeting, I sure didn't see a whole lot of 'town." A couple dozen of over-lit, under-whelmed people who got free tickets. As a comic, I have to say, that really looked like a tough house.

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The Winner of Debate II? "That One"

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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At the end of the debate, Brokaw asked McCain to get out of the way of his Teleprompter. He might as well have been speaking on behalf of the future: Senator McCain can you please get out of the way so we can get on with it?

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Hitting the Snooze Button on McCain-Obama Round 2

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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Boooring. Yawn. Anything new? "That one?" That's the big controversy of the night? Do we miss Sarah Palin so soon?

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From "The One" To "That One": John McCain And (Not) Reaching Across Party Lines

Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Sen. McCain failed big time in that most basic principle of bipartisan leadership: attributing inherent worth to his equal from the opposite side of the political spectrum.

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Is John McCain Really Our Friend?

Erica Jong | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Why are these debates so incredibly boring? Is it McCain telling us constantly he is our friend while he grimaces in a way that is friendly to no one? Or is it Obama keeping his cool despite all the idiotic lies and provocations?

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That One?!

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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They say that Sen. McCain's strong suit is the town hall debate. If this was, in fact, Sen. McCain's strength, he might as well go home. Sorry... homes.

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McCain's Mudslide Continues

Robert Shrum | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

If the question of the first debate was whether Obama would pass the threshold on national security (he did), the reality of this debate is that McCain didn't pass the threshold on the economy.

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A 'Terrible' Debate Performance By Brokaw and Organizers

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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This was supposed to be the "domestic policy" debate. Yet there we were once again talking about raids on Pakistan and defending Israel. Brokaw and the organizers let down the American public.

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"My Friends," It's Over

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

It was clear tonight that Barack Obama has a far superior understanding of the moving parts of government and American society than John McCain ever had.

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