At 53-minute mark, debate is a yawner

I’ve already lost my imaginary drinking game for this evening’s presidential debate. John McCain has said “my friends” five times in the first 45 minutes of the debate and a shot each time would have me passed out on the floor by now.
I’m writing another post and only halfway listening to the “town hall” “debate,” [...]

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First ‘08 presidential debate: a tie

To keep it real simple: I think tonight’s presidential debate was basically a tie.

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McCain’s debate dodge is desperate political theatrics

John McCain’s unexpected suspension of his presidential campaign yesterday strikes me as a purely political maneuver, adopted to once again create a distraction or upheaval in a campaign that’s not going his way and, possibly, to get out of a debate that he had concluded would not serve him well. It feels like “cut and [...]

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Language, the media, and the endless campaign

Don’t turn on your television today if you don’t want to hear someone say “lipstick on a pig.”
Believe it or not, we’re trying to elect the next U.S. president, and everyone has their knickers in a twist over an old, old English figure of speech. Obama used it to describe some of McCain’s proposals; McCain [...]

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