Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are gearing up for their first debate on Friday, September 26, at the University of Mississippi. Both campaigns have agreed to an unusual free-flowing format, but the McCain camp fought for and won a much more structured approach for the questioning at the vice presidential debate.
The Oct. 2 debate between Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joe Biden, moderated by Gwen Ifill, will have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the presidential nominees. McCain advisers said they had been concerned that a loose format could leave Palin, a relatively inexperienced debater, at a disadvantage and largely on the defensive.
Friday’s debate will be broken into nine, 9-minute segments. Jim Lehrer will introduce a topic and allow each candidate two minutes to comment. After these initial answers, the moderator will facilitate an open discussion of the topic for the remaining five minutes, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment.
The debate begins at 9pm ET, and will broadcast on major networks ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, in addition to cable news channels such as C-SPAN, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
OBAMA ON FINANCIAL CRISIS
At a rally in Charlotte on Sunday, Sen. Barack Obama addressed how the government should respond to the financial crisis and criticized the Bush Administration’s lack of a plan to combat the problem.
He said, “As of now, the Bush Administration has only offered a concept with a staggering price tag, not a plan. Even if the U.S. Treasury recovers some or most of its investment over time, this initial outlay of up to $700 billion is sobering. And in return for their support, the American people must be assured that the deal reflects the basic principles of transparency, fairness, and reform.”
Obama added the following points on how government should address the problem:
First, there must be no blank check when American taxpayers are on the hook for this much money.
Second, taxpayers shouldn’t be spending a dime to reward CEOs on Wall Street.
Third, taxpayers should be protected and should be able to recoup this investment.
Fourth, this plan has to help homeowners stay in their homes.
Fifth, this is a global crisis, and the United States must insist that other nations join us in helping secure the financial markets.
Sixth, we need to start putting in place the rules of the road I’ve been calling for for years to prevent this from ever happening again.
And finally, this plan can’t just be a plan for Wall Street, it has to be a plan for Main Street.
MCCAIN PLAYS RACE CARD?
“This is hardly subtle: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman,” writes Karen Tumulty.
The Obama campaign says former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines is not an Obama adviser and that McCain’s campaign knows it because Raines sent an email to Carly Fiorina, a top McCain adviser: “Carly: Is this true?” Raines asks above a forwarded note informing him that Fiorina was on television saying he was an Obama housing adviser. “I am not an adviser to the Obama campaign. Frank.”
I’m Just Sayin’…
There are two major candidates and he is not voting for Obama, who do you think he’s voting for? Don’t let him tell you he is not voting either because he will.
If Chinese people live in China, then where should black folk live? In other words, JUDAH… what exactly is your point?
———@Dukesman
———Finally, you respond like a man, so I’ll retort your attempt at a point. You don’t
———get it. Don’t you see that I asked you, “Don’t Chinese live in China?”. Do you
———understand the point that I was getting at? You’ve convinced yourself that you
———are a “revolutionary”, but revolutionaries don’t vote, lol. I’d have more respect
———for your stance if you were 1) Consistent 2) Understood what you claim to
———espouse. Furthermore, the comparisons to Communist China and the Mau
———Maus in Kenya is totally irrelevant because, again, they were not voting, they
———were fighting. Do you grasp the difference? Furthermore they live in racially
———homogenous lands. This is why I asked about the Chinese living in China.
———America has all races in it and blacks are at the VERY BOTTOM. This is not
———the case of an indigenous race of people throwing off the shackles of their
———oppressor. This is a CAPTIVE race of people that don’t even know who the
———hell they are, and your simple ass is comparing our plight to these fabricated
———CIA-funded “revolutions”. I can go deeper but I honestly believe that it would
———be a waste of time on my part.
———Lastly brother, and I’ve asked you this before, when you use terms, at least
———use them in the proper context. If you don’t have the literacy capabilities to do
———so, don’t use them. It exposes your stupidity. Harriet Tubman was a lesbian,
———but as I’ve said before, you seem to be one of these pseudo/quasi-militants
———that reads half-books and thinks that they’re “down for the cause”. Not only
———that but she served her true master, the white man, loyally and has been
———rewarded in posterity by being commemorated in the white man’s false texts.
———The same can be said for deceitful negroes like Frederick Douglas, W.E.B.
———Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King etc. All watchdogs.
———In regards to “Yahweh Ben Yahweh”, I’ve heard of him but no, the only entity
———that I follow is Christ. I normally ignore your nonsense because I find it far too
———effeminate and emotional, especially as an alleged “man”, but I had time to
———play with your simple behind today, lol. Be a man, outline the goal, weigh the
———probability of it coming to fruition, and then holler at me.
———@I’m Just Sayin
———I’m voting for you with Dukesman as your running mate.
lol….. is anybody gonna answer my question??… y’all need to have a plan B if mccain wins..
Dukesman…
Judah is simply a black nationalist…pure and simple. Somehow, Black people are God’s chosen people but they don’t listen (according to him, they are to stupid to do so). The jews got it all wrong, according to him!
The Black man is rather blinded by Satan’s spawn, the white man! As a matter of fact, African American women are worse off than the Black men. They are the white man’s tool (his words from the numerous political post on concreteloop that he frequently profuses his teachings)! Black women should reduce the power that they have now to serve the black man!
When Judah discusses with you, he doesn’t state any of his position clearly and succintly (yet, he blames Obama for this same habit). He rather divulge in long tangents that mock your intelligent before stating his positions. But his positions are always obscured…you wanna knwo why? By doing so, he refrains from stating his position; One is a weaker being if he states his position. Stating your position effiminates you (one of his favorite words) .
He says a lot of something that don’t mean anything and since black people are enchanted by anything, he plays on that to sway the weakest of us all!
Beware!
HAHAHAHA!! You people are very hilarious. You guys must have been drugged by something. Am I the only one who can read straight through Obama? He’s very inexperienced I don’t care what anyone says, and he is FAKE. He calls himself a Christian, yet true Christians for one don’t go to churches like the one he went to, for two he believes in gay marraige and abortion, and the list goes on. Not to be full of conceit but I make good money, and I can’t possibly afford Obama to tax me more because I make more than the next person. It’s unbelievable. And if you guys had some what of an education in these kinds of things, you would clearly know that President Bush wasn’t the complete person who caused all what’s going on.
BTW: There is NOW WAY on Earth Obama is going to win. So don’t set your hopes high because trust me, they will be drastically loward.In my debate classes we talk about this all the time and NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, OBAMA WILL NOT WIN!! Trust me, please.
–God Bless.
@ Do you have Jesus? You need to answer that question yourself.
There’s a reason why Obama gets the majority of educated voters.
McCain look like a dried up ninja turtle
OBAMA ’08!!!
@Do you have Jesus– It’s people like you that annoy me the most. The arrogant, I got Jesus and you don’t” crowd. If you make so much money then you can afford the taxation. And since your so close to Jesus….you shouldn’t mind taking care of your fellow man.
You should also try spellcheck…loward is spelled lowered!
Judah,
You are busted as being *Sigh*. You are busted for bad logic. You are busted for having sexual issues: who cares whether the abolitionist Harriet Tubman was a lesbian or that you think someone else’s logic is “effeminate?” I’ll tell you who. A person who has confused sexuality and isn’t sure he can cut it as a man.
Plus, your grammar sucks, you do not know your Bible, and your endless pessimism is tiring. As your alter ego says, *sigh.”.
Obama ’08. The rest of y’all make sure you are registered tomorrow. Make sure.
@ So what…12345678
Don’t worry brother/sister. Judah is clearly not on my level. He is obviously a confused person, who doesn’t think for himself but instead regurgitates what other people in his narrow minded, self hating circle, tell him. I can bet your last quarter I will continue to debate this Uncle Tom. You can count on me to cut the grass and expose this serpent.
THE MOST WE CAN DO IS CAST OUR VOTES. ONCE WE GET OBAMA IN WE WILL HAVE TO ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND GET DIRTY AS FAR AS HELPING TO SOLVE THIS COUNTRY’S CRISIES.
———@So What
———I hate when idiots try to summarize my thought process, lol. The number one
———problem on these blogs are the people of the other races that pose as black,
———(whether you’re one of those people or not is irrelevant to me, you just emit that
———vibe). My opinions are never “obscured”, they are “obscured” to people that
———have low to no perceptual capabilities whatsoever. If someone asks me my
———opinion, I give it to them. If they ask me WHY I think something, instead of just
———attacking me like many clownish people on this site do, they would get an
———answer. Then there are the many allegedly “deucated” “pseudo-intellectuals”
———that come onto this site and are frustrated that they cannot gainsay my
———comments without getting outpointed. At the end of the day, the truth hurts, it
———divides, it conquers all, and it breeds enemies (John 8:40, Gal 4:16).
———@Honolulu City Lights
———You’re busted as being an idiot of historic proportions. Were you born that way
———or did it take years for you to get that stupid? You must be one of the Obama
———idolators that’s new to this site, lol. I’m me 100% of the day, 100% of the time
———and I will not give my glory unto another. Logic is not “effeminate”. Lack of
———logic is effeminate. Over-emotionality in a man is effeminate. You strike me as
———one of these black women that studies psychology and astrology to try to
———predict predilections in men because she has no idea what to think about
———anything. If my grammar sucks, correct it. If I don’t know the scriptures, cite
———examples. We both know that you won’t because you’ll get your fragile
———sensibilities cut.
———@Dukesman
———Sis, we haven’t had ONE debate yet, lmao. Debate? Look up the definition of
———the term “debate”. I’ve “debated” many people and a debate is an exchange of
———ideas, doctrines, etc. with the intent of proving yours superior over your
———counterpart. Other than the word “Uncle Tom” (used out of context), you have
———had nothing to say to or about me. Your obsessed with my opinion and irate
———within yourself that 1)You can’t gainsay it 2) I don’t worship your god, Obama.
———I do agree though when you say that I am not on your level, lmao. For
———example, you cited Harriet Tubman, you cited the Chinese Communist
———movement, you cited the Mau Maus (all out of context). Those were your
———attempts at points. You with me so far? I refuted them. Those were counters.
———You came back with, “Judah’s a serpent.”, lmao. Do you get it? Do you grasp
———what I’m saying? I think that you just like my attention. You had no problem
———with my commentary until I came against your god, Obama. At least you’re a
———loyal worshipper. I’ll give you that.
if Palin can’t stand the heat she need to get her trailer park azz out the kitchen
teh key phrase is
“Palin, a relatively inexperienced debater”
thats not the only thing that qualifies her as inexperienced.
Obama sucks
Biden will lose it for him anyway.
obama supporters on this site are racist .
At the time of financial crises we need to come together united and try to solve the problems which are responsible for such a hazard. We need to overcome it. It is meant to bring calm to the population and markets and display government strength and stability.