By Art Smith. Posted Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:33 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, 2008 Presidential Election Issues Analysis, Barack Obama, Economy, Featured, International Affairs, Iraq, John McCain, Leadership, National Defense, Pakistan, US Congress, US Treasury, War on Terror
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 [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:15 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, 2008 Presidential Election Issues Analysis, Barack Obama, Economy, Featured, International Affairs, Iraq, John McCain, Leadership, National Defense, Pakistan, US Congress, US Treasury, War on Terror
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 [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:54 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, John McCain
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 [...]
A short while ago it was announced that John McCain would participate in the debate planned tonight at the University of Mississippi. Both McCain and Obama are getting ready to fly out of Washington shortly.
McCain believes, evidently, that enough progress is being made that he can afford to take some time away from this crisis. [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Monday, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:33 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Leadership, Tim Russert
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 [...]
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