PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE #2 LIVE THREAD

10/07/08

[TornadoAlley3]

While the two presidential candidates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, prepare for their second debate on Oct. 7 at Belmont University in Nashville, Tom Brokaw gets to sift through questions submitted by you. In addition to queries from a group randomly selected by the Gallup organization, Brokaw will be fielding questions submitted online at mydebates.org, the site created by the Commission on Presidential Debates and Myspace. The focus of the town hall-style debate will be domestic and foreign policy, Brokaw's specialties.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"He's putting diplomacy first instead of defending Israel!!!"

And putting the UN ahead of our treaty obligations. Astonishing.

[Lloyd227]

"but McCain let hussein off the hook AGAIN !"

McCain seems to have done quite a lot of that, i.e. letting Hussein off the hook. Can the man truly be this short sighted and weak to think he's going to win the election like this?

Obama is the very definition of everything I'm against, but I just can not help calling it as I see it and McCain is giving this one away.

[AZLiberty]

Nooooo. “I have served for many, many years.”

[Shortstop7]

You are so wrong.

[rintense]

McCain won this debate simply because he answered the questions.

[Spatha]

McCain says he’s the ‘steady hand at the tiller!’

God let’s hope so!

[Vaquero]

[dandelion]

A great answer to a simple question, and McCain did very well!

[af_vet_rr]

This format is fine for McCain. He is “real”. Hussein is not; sounds too fake.

I didn't say he wasn't real, I said he wasn't smooth - you forget that McCain and Osama are chasing undecideds and independents. We are an image-based society - you or I can start a thread about some serious threat to the Constitution, and somebody else can start a thread about what some airhead actress said about a Republican politician, and the airhead thread will get 10 times as many responses.

[Barnacle]

Great conclusion John!

[mbs6]

What? You don’t think he can do it?

[silent_jonny]

Good, poignant closing remarks by McCain.

[Darren McCarty]

Unfortunately, I'm stuck trying to do some work tonight so I can't watch this.

Did someone bring a gong with them for when Obama speaks? Ring it, then give him the hook for sucking worse than the Detroit Lions.

[Onerom99]

SUMMARY: BORING DEBATE WON BY MCCAIN.

[Williams]

EXCELLENT ENDING BY MCCAIN! (Obama blew the ending BIG TIME)

[TankerKC]

What don't you know and how will you learn in?

Nobody knows, but I will pay attention and surround myself with the best advisers that patriotism can buy.

[JSteff]

“SEND THEM DAMAGING INFO ON OBAMA. DEMAND THEY DO THEIR JOB AND INVESTIGATE.”

They won't and it is naive and silly to think they will. This whole thing is running as a staged event for Obama. Brokaw is not moderating but playing the stage manager for the Obama victory show.

[dougherty]

Loved McCain’s closing statement. Obama just rambled on and on in his and didn’t really say a thing.

[Kevmo]

Contract specific rules...

The pre-debate value of each candidate will be the volume weighted average price (VWAP) of all trades on 2008.PRES.OBAMA and 2008.PRES.McCAIN between 9:00am ET and 9:00pm ET on Tuesday October 7th (the twelves hours before the debate)

I’m posting at 7:38pm Pacific. That’s 10:38pm ET, more than 90 minutes after it’s supposed to expire.

Politics - Presidential Debates
Which candiate will benefit more from the second Presidential Debate?
Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
2ND.DEBATE.OBAMA
Barack Obama’s Intrade value will increase more than John McCain’s following the 2nd Pres. Debate M Trade 40.5 46.0 45.0 894 -15.0

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

IMHO, the problem with the debate was all of the boring questions.