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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 6:52 am - by Matt Campbell. Filed under: Politics.
Updated 6:52am
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John McCain and Sarah Palin campaign today in Bethlehem, PA 12:30pm
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Thanks for checking back to It’s Our City. I’m Alan Tu, the managing editor of It’s Our City. I don’t know what you’re expecting, but my guess is that John McCain will really on the war path tonight. He’s trailing in the polls, and he apparently found Hillary Clinton’s old playbook and revived the Bill Ayers story. Barack Obama’s campaign was so quick with the the Keating Five documentary, that it appears that it was produced awhile ago.
Tonight’s feature presentation is
McCain vs. Obama: Part Two
Location: Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee
When: 9:00pm eastern
You can watch it on WHYY TV12, hear it live on 91fm or whyy.org.
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October 7th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
PhillyWeekly Conservative on CNN is suggesting A) McCain show humor and B)talk about Obama’s terror connections. In the same breath.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
katia511 Here we go.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Tom Brokaw has introduced the candidates. 1st question is on the economy. what’s the fastest solution to help americans suffering the most?
October 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
anniemal “let’s not raise taxes on anyone…today” perfect GOP response. Leave the problems for the next person.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Tom Brokaw asks who would you appoint as a top economic advisor
October 7th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
peskymac Dude, really? Meg Whitman as the treasury head? Jeebus crisp
October 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
PurpleCar Oh please McCain doesn’t know what eBay is
October 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
PhillyWeekly Warren Buffet would have to take a pretty big pay cut to become Treasury Secretary.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Audience member ask what’s in the bailout plan to help out Americans?
October 7th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
mattkatz00 these guys are ignoring the format entirely, just reading their talking points. and brokaw is letting them get away with it.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
hyermish Bail out vs. Rescue - who cares what you call it, it is still $700 billion dollars
October 7th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
McCain is talking in circles… he is practically ignoring the questions altogether and repeating his same points over again
October 7th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Audience member ask how can we trust either one of you, because both parties got us into this economic mess?
October 7th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
peskymac I don’t think Obama really answered Teresa’s trust question so much, but I don’t expect McCain to answer it either.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Tom Brokaw asks what order would you prioritize health, energy and entitlement reform?
October 7th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
neelketkar let’s suspend healthcare so mccain can work on entitlements
October 7th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
bebe_blazfemi McCain thinks he can work on all 3 at once?? he couldn’t even run campaign because he had to go to washington, he suspended it!
October 7th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
freebristol #current #debate08 Ooooh Obama even knows price of gas in nashville
October 7th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Tom Brokaw ask what sacrifices will you ask all americans to make
October 7th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
peskymac Is that like the ’sweeteners’ in the bailout bill? McCain didn’t seem to worked up about that pork
October 7th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
RodrigoMx Obama playing the 9/11 card
October 7th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
bebe_blazfemi earmarks! earmarks! earmarks! earmarks!earmarks! earmarks! earmarks! earmarks!
October 7th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
stribs Always has to calm the base: I won’t cut defense. Screw education, tho
October 7th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
chuise mccain’s tough talk isn’t tracking very well on the cnn live graph #current #nashdebat
October 7th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
jamesthethird keep up the negative attacks McCain, you’re flat-lining
October 7th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Tom Brokaw asked if either would set a deadline two years after taking office to start to fix medicare and social security.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
sutiibu The 50% of small business revenues McCain just quoted is actually the revenues of only the top 5% (or so) of all “small businesses”.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
freebristol #current #debate08 Obama really wants Americans to understand the tax math behind McCain’s bullshit “credits”
October 7th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
jamesthethird straight-talk express lost a wheel, brilliant!
October 7th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
neelketkar social security not tough? why hasn’t it been done yet
October 7th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Audience member asks what would you do to make sure congress acts quickly on environmental issues?
October 7th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
peskymac Holy shit. Environmentalism=nuke power? In what alternate universe?
October 7th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
neomindryan Saying everything is top priority means no thing is the top priority
October 7th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
PhillyWeekly McCain: “Nuclear power is clean.” Except when it’s really, really, really not.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Tom Brokaw asks what they would do a bout global warming?
October 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Audience member asks whether health care should be thought of as a commodity.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
ladylynnet health care should not be a commodity!!
October 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
SilverNeurotic Finally, healthcare!
October 7th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
stribs if you’re drinking on “my friends” tonight, you’re paralytic already, likely in a vegetative state
October 7th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
BradyDale If anyone thinks the GOP is a credible messenger on health care then they deserve the cancer they won’t be able to pay to get hacked out.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Tom Brokaw asks if health care is a privilege or a right?
October 7th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
freebristol The McCain jokes are so stupid.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
jasontroj McCain needs a brick wall behind him and a single spot light for that bomb
October 7th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
jandrewstein was that a dig at biden??? hair transplants? Hilarious!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Audience member asks, how the economic turmoil affect the US ability to be a peace maker.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
extrenergy McCain wandering all over the place, literally and figuratively
October 7th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
katintherat #debate08 YES bring up the snafu that is Iraq
October 7th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
RodrigoMx McCain: Obama was wrong w/ the surge, and about Russia.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Tom Brokaw asks What is the Obama and McCain doctrine on humanitarian intervention
October 7th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
quinnelk Whatever the Obama Doctrine is, you can bet Palin doesn’t know what it is.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
freebristol Moral issues at stake. Professor Obama kicking
October 7th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
audience member asks if we should launch military operations inside Pakistan?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
TechCrusader wow. these questions are EXCELLENT. americans “get it”. politicians not so much
October 7th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Did McCain just call Tom Brokaw Katie?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
chuise ahhh… “bomb iran” finally comes out. been waiting on that one for a while
October 7th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Tom Brokaw asks about Afghanistan
October 7th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
imgroupmktg “Talk softly, carry a big stick?”. Huh?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
designmama Yeah! Call him out on the Bomb Bomb Bomb
October 7th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
jandrewstein finding it amusing to watch debate and read twitter feeds… smart, interesting + hilarious insights. Thanks!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Tom Brokaw asks about the use of humanitarian aid without re-starting the cold war
October 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
chuise i’m kind of shocked that the kgb/russia comments are tracking so well.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
jccoach mccain really scares me
October 7th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
shipslaunching #current If McCain knows how to “get Bin Laden” and win the war, it’d be great if he would tell us what his plan is in order to do so.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
ladylynnet we can’t provide economic support to former soviet satellites without having a stable economy…slow down there,
October 7th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Tom Brokaw asks if russia is an evil empire?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
freebristol McCain = 20th centuray, Obama = 21st century
October 7th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Audience member asks if the candidates would defend Israel asap if it was attacked by Iran.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
peskymac These questions about Israel are always so weird. And what’s up with McCain sucking up to navel petty officers?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
OroroDC Israel has won all of its wars. I don’t think they would need our troops
October 7th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
hyermish So, effectively, both Obama and McCain said the same thing about Russia. Could someone please point that out? Oh, I guess I just did
October 7th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
imgroupmktg Gawd….. Will someone pleeeeease talk with the Tin Man to borrow his oil can and loosen Mcain up?? He’s so stiff??? Why???
October 7th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Internet question. what don’t you know, and how will you learn it?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
juliebonnheath GREAT last question!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
katintherat ##debate08 #current McCain: “I don’t know how many houses I have”
October 7th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
McCain and Obama….walk in front of Tom Brokaw and stand right in front of Tom’s teleprompter causing him to stumble a bit.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
The Debate has ended
October 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
zTurret @ItsOurCity My wife, a registered Republican, is underwhelmed by McCain.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
aharcharek McCain: zero Obama: a million bazillion trillion thousand
October 7th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
marketeering I know friends, I work with friends. You sir, are not my friend!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
smallspark MSNBC has a philadelphia focus group on came out 60-40 obama
October 7th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
attila After tonight, I’m convinced the Republicans are throwing the election, hoping Obama wins to inherit all this mess. Chris Rock was right!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
RoeBoeDog The pres. debate was a lot more boring than the VP Debate
October 7th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
lifelikeweeds Can’t be a good sign for McCain that Republican pundits are criticizing his debate performance
October 7th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Pishba McCain needed to win or at least dominate this debate tonight. He did neither.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
nprpolitics Victory Claimed By Both Sides
October 7th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
danpohlig watched debate on CNN and couldn’t take my eyes off that mesmerizing people meter
October 7th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Obama cane across as a logical and caring individual once again. He was more specific on his plans for future programs. His opponent, though more prepared tonight, resorted mainly to unfounded accusations.