As mentioned earlier, this will be an open thread for any comments you have during and after tonight’s Presidential debate. Please keep it clean and kind. We always reserve the right to delete anything we find offensive.

I so wish I could be here tonight, but events are preventing me from being online during this big showdown (although I’m not expecting much excitement tonight).

Enjoy the debate!!!

Question of the Night:  Why should we trust either one of you?
Good question.  In typical politico style, I heard both candidates answer in this manner:  “Blah, blah, blah, yak, yak, yak”.
I don’t know how I would have answered the question if I were either McCain or Obama.  There’s nothing in either of their past to [...]

We’ll be live blogging here tonight beginning at 9:00 PM Eastern Time. If we have difficulties with the CoverItLive.com tool again, we will revert to using comments instead. We look forward to your input!

Update: Once again, CoverItLive has failed us. Please click to the comments page for this post to follow the live blogging, and feel free to participate!

The debate is complete, we’re done blogging for the evening! Read the comments if you’re interested in our thoughts!

Well, we all wanted a town hall (actually, we wanted a bunch of them), so here we are.

What should we expect?

First of all, here at TCR, we plan to have live blogging once again. I’m hoping that CoverItLive has their act together this time. I never heard back from them after Thursday night’s debacle, and I really don’t want to through that again. Regardless, join us here Tuesday at 9:00 PM Eastern as we bring you analysis as it happens.

With regard to content, I’m not sure what to expect with the audience and questions. Lynn Sweet from the Sun-Times tells us:

This is Part 2 of the analysis of Friday night’s Presidential Debate.  Part 1 was posted on Saturday.
Iran
Lehrer asked for a “reading” of Iran by the candidates.  Are they a threat?  Both candidates made it very clear that nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran was not acceptable.
McCain did a good job of highlighting both [...]

Sorry, having computer issues and won’t get Part 2 of the Debate to you until Monday.  Look forward to an initial assessment of the Bailout Bill.  And a review of the new movie “Fireproof” that just opened this weekend.

Here’s Part 1 of my assessment of Friday night’s Presidential Debate.  Part 2 will come on Sunday.
All I can say is, I was wrong.  Jim Lehrer does want to be the next Tim Russert.
I will say, I did not sense any partisanship on Lehrer’s part, but he sure dug into follow up questions, including a [...]

Although I would have ideally preferred to provide immediate reaction during and after tonight’s debate, I have a commitment at church that I need to attend to.  Therefore, I’ll be recording the debate and providing feedback on Saturday, hopefully around noon.  (Link to part 1 of the debate analysis)
We want to encourage everyone to tune [...]

Friday night, September 26, will be the first formal debate between John McCain and Barack Obama.  The event will be held at the University of Mississippi, and will be hosted by Jim Lehrer.
Thankfully, Lehrer is already established enough that he won’t try to be another Tim Russert.
At this point, I think it’s helpful to resurrect [...]