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By the time you read this, we will know if Donald Trump pulled off a miracle and overcame his myriad personal shortcomings to win the second debate and maybe save his candidacy by holding Hillary Clinton accountable for the legacy of failure she intends to continue. But more likely he will have spent the town hall excusing his locker room trash talk while the wife of a serial sex abuser stood smiling that Stepfordy smile as she watched him chase rhetorical squirrels down into the sewer.The anti-establishment resistance chose a loathsome creep as their avatar to fight an even worse...

Donald Trump says he’ll jail opponent Hillary Clinton if he wins the presidency. The Republican presidential nominee made the threat — an unprecedented break with U.S. political decorum — in the middle of the second presidential debate, held Sunday in St. Louis. […] Trump's remarks drew widespread and bipartisan condemnation as un-American. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who served under President Barack Obama, wrote on Twitter: “In the USA we do not threaten to jail political opponents. @realDonaldTrump said he would. He is promising to abuse the power of the office.” Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary under George W....

The Commission on Presidential Debates had already announced that the second of three debates would feature questions submitted online in addition to those asked by the traditional studio audience. But on Tuesday morning, the organizers confirmed they are embracing a format that a broad bipartisan cross-section of activist and civic groups known as the Open Debate Coalition have been pushing for years. Americans will be able to submit and then vote on questions online at PresidentialOpenQuestions.com, and ABC and CNN have agreed to consider the 30 most popular queries when they jointly plan the debate.

" [snip] ............The media, which has tried to move past the story as quickly as possible, is now going to have to go back and revisit what actually happened. As last night dragged on in the post debate analysis, the initial cursory “he did call it an act of terror” fact checking turned into “actually, he didn’t and it took him forever to do so” fact checking. It was not pretty. And it was a hell of a thing for Obama to accuse Romney of politicizing a cover up, then hide behind the rhetoric of greeting coffins as they returned...

RUSH: This series of post-debate comments of people on CNN is interesting, 'cause, you know, you look at the polls here today, it's very odd, I thought this was all over, I coulda sworn it was. Everybody keeps telling me it's over. You'd think Obama had a 15 to ten-point lead. But he doesn't. What's going on here frankly is the American people are, as I said yesterday, focusing on Obama, and they are not comfortable with him. They are not comfortable with his massive government approaches to everything; not comfortable with his Mr. Cool attitude and his growing cockiness;...

RUSH: What a sad state journalism must have to be in. We know it is, but it was on display last night, the sad state of journalism. You know it's bad when they have to drag Tom Brokaw out of Jurassic Park to moderate the debate. What happened to Brian Williams? What happened to Charlie Gibson? What happened to Katie Couric? Why go to Jurassic Park? Folks, I am sitting here, all I can do today is laugh. I've been having so much fun getting ready for today's show and I'm going to share it with you, greetings, great to...

I would have given almost anything to have attended the 2nd presidential debate in St. Louis and asked Kerry the following question: Senator Kerry, you have attacked President Bush on handeling the war on terrorism and Iraq, and questioning whether we should being involved in either of them in the first place by making the comment it's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. This sounds very similar to those who opposed fighting the revoluntionary war, the war of 1812, before entering WW II, and especially the arms race which eventually caused the fall of communism,...

Vote for your winner @ www.rightliner.com ....Bush get's off his heals last night, and goes after Kerry, and it worked. Bush came off looking strong, not defending his position. And now onto the 3rd and final debate. Perhaps it's now a wash, and the 3rd debate will likely gain the smallest audience. However we are set up for a 3rd debate shoot-out.