The debates

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Registered: 09-21-2008
The debates
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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:38pm

Is it still up in the air whether they are going on?


TIA

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Registered: 09-21-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:44pm
Is it me or has this place gotten quiet lately?
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Registered: 05-06-2007
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:48pm

I've noticed it too.


Hellooooooooooooooooo....anyone out there?


Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
Grayson Blaine 12/30/07

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Registered: 09-21-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:55pm
almost eerie :)
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Registered: 12-10-2007
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 11:08pm

It's still up in the air - they're also not done w/ the bailout deal...they'll be finishing it up tomorrow, so they say...

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Registered: 05-06-2007
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 11:34pm

I was looking through the various threads and I noticed that there were like 30 different discussions started today. Maybe that's what's slowing down the board. By flooding the board with so many different threads not enough people really get "invested" in the topic before yet another topic comes along. Does that make sense? Maybe the amount of threads started needs to slow down some so that discussions have enough time to properly begin and the board can pick back up again. Or maybe I'm completely wrong. :-)


Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
Grayson Blaine 12/30/07

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Registered: 09-15-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 11:53pm
i definately think that has something to do with it. personally, i feel like we have been discussed a lot of info lately and lots of information has been repeated over and over again and i literally get exhausted reading the samething and then repeating the same thing time and time again. there has also been quite a bit of bickering going on, which has kind of turned me off from getting too involved with anything at this point. hopefully i will be more relaxed this weekend and will be ready to jump back in the game
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 2:07am

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/25/obama-will-make-debate-a_n_129250.html

Obama Will Make Debate A Townhall If McCain Doesn't Show

September 25, 2008 11:45 AM

Barack Obama is committed to hosting a public, televised event Friday night in Mississippi even if John McCain does not show up, an official close to the Obama campaign tells the Huffington Post.

In McCain's absence, the Senator is willing to make the scheduled debate a townhall meeting, a one-on-one interview with NewsHour's Jim Lehrer, or the combination of the two, the official said.

Such a course of action could make life incredibly difficult for McCain, who has called for the suspension of the debate in light of the current economic crisis. Should he stay in Washington D.C. -- if a bailout is not completed by then -- and let Obama alone reach tens of millions of television viewers?

A lot, of course, depends upon what the debate commission decides to do. At this point in time, there is no indication that they are going to postpone the affair, as the McCain campaign has asked.

Separately, on Thursday, Obama himself said he was intending to go to Oxford, Miss for the scheduled debate and called on McCain to be there with him.

"The American people deserve to hear directly from myself and Sen. McCain about how we intend to lead our country," Obama said. "The times are too serious to put our campaign on hold, or to ignore the full range of issues that the next president will face."

Meanwhile, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said on Thursday that he expected the debate to go forward as planned.

UPDATE: An adviser Barack Obama says he expects John McCain to attend:

"I actually think he's going to come to the debate," the adviser, Robert Gibbs, told reporters in Washington on Thursday.
And echoing a talking point that Senator Obama used in his press conference on Thursday, Mr. Gibbs added: "I think he will decide that a president is capable of doing more than one thing at a time."

UPDATE II:: More from the AP:

John McCain's campaign expressed cautious optimism Thursday as congressional Republicans and Democrats agreed in principle on a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry hours before the two presidential candidates were to meet with President Bush on the crisis.

Even so, the action didn't appear to be strong enough to convince McCain to attend Friday's scheduled presidential debate. His campaign has said he wouldn't participate unless there was consensus between Congress and the administration, and a spokesman said the afternoon developments had not changed his plans.

UPDATE III: McCain aide Tucker Bounds tells MSNBC, "we're going into the debates."

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Registered: 07-16-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 2:28am

I agree, too many different topics going at once makes it impossible to get any sort of line of thought going.

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Registered: 09-15-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:35am

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will this make mccain look bad if there is no resolution made and he ends up going to the debate? i think it will. but i am curious about other people's thoughts

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:48am

I don't think it will make him look bad to go to the debate because I didn't think he should have tried to pull out of it in the first place.

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