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Second Presidential Debate: Video, Highlights, Analysis

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

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11:55 - Sam Stein: Debate In Words: Obama talks about issues while McCain says "my friends." A look at the words uttered during the affair underscore...

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Why does John McCain hate planetariums?

Phil Plait | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Phil Plait

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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Dave Winer

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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Nancy Snow

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

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Nick Douglas

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

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Lily Koppel

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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Jason Linkins

What Debate Was The Politico Watching?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media

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Jim VandeHei and John Harris of The Politico have gone and decreed last night's debate "The worst debate ever." In the first place, on this regard, they are hopelessly and ridiculously wrong.

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Echoes of Kennedy-Nixon, Clinton-Dole

Terrence McNally | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Terrence McNally

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 Calls Obama "That One"

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Maggie Van Ostrand

If the people of this nation cannot tell the difference between presidential behavior and a sick and angry little man, then we're in more trouble than we are with Bush. Get a grip John. You're boring.

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McCain Fizzles as Obama Sizzles

Michael Carmichael | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Michael Carmichael

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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"That One": McCain's Use of Dehumanization as Hate-Speech

Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Leah McElrath Renna

When McCain refuses to look at Barack Obama and refuses to use his name, he is employing modified versions of a military technique -- a strategy of dehumanization.

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Knowing What You Don't Know

Jon Raymond | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home

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Jon Raymond

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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America At Juncture And Obama Must Do More Than Talk Politics

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home

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Leonce Gaiter

Obama ran in the primaries as a firebrand, generating a rich progressive aura. His general campaign has been absolutely faultless, and equally unexciting. However, for the longer term, it's not enough.

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Citizens Panel Mixed on 'Town Hall' Format, Wanted Brokaw to Do More to Challenge the Spin

Timothy Karr | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media

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Timothy Karr

McCain's supporters seemed happy with the ground rules. Obama's supporters seemed happy with the results. But many were troubled by the debate organizers' claim of true public participation in Tuesday's forum.

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The Answer We Needed to Hear

Howard Schweber | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Howard Schweber

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

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Michael Shaw

2008-10-08-shaw_mccain_townhall.jpgIn 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

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Cenk Uygur

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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Mary Lyon

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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Paul Reiser

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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Arianna Huffington

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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Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

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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Jason Linkins

Robert Gibbs Confronts Hannity Over Anti-Semite Guest

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.22.2008 | Media

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UPDATE: Robert Gibbs Selected Press Secretary You got to give credit to the American people, who managed to get through an entire evening of debat...

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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

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Steven G. Brant

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

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Erica Jong

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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Bob Cesca

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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