Nick Ragone is an author, attorney and public relations executive in New York City. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Rutgers University, and is a graduate of the Eagleton Institute of Political Science at Rutgers University (undergraduate) and the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Friday, September 26, 2008 at 07:31PM I thought I'd try something new and live blog during the debate in the comments section of this post. Feel free to join the debate! I'll have a post-mortem essay shortly after the debate is over.
Reader Comments (51)
I've got my laptop ready and charged. haha.
It should be an interesting evening.
Can Obama ever speak in specifics? "We haven't seen the language yet" ... there's a 103 page document floating around Congress with lots of specifics. I'd love to see him take a stand on something -- anything.
Can McCain even answer a question? "I hope to vote for the plan"
McCain didn't take a real stance either. And i'm sorry- corporate greed? Does he realize how much his wife makes? or how frivolously they spend their money? $300 k on an outfit for one night- yeah, clearly, greed hasn't affected them at all.
Good try at the Kennedy empathy move.
And trying to turn his answer back to his age-related experience and foreign policy.
$300 billion in tax cuts? well, we're spending $700 billion on a bailout. Seems like a bargain ...
95% of which 50% don't pay income taxes... Get your hands off of my money
he doesn't even know what a tax break is
Totally agree with you Matt. Top 1% of wage earners accounted for 39 percent of the tax revenues last year. Bottom 50% accounted for 3% of tax revenues.
This earmark stuff is lame. Nobody gives a damn. Move on to something new. Where is the foreign policy? Jim Lehrer is annoying me.
he looked at me and I puked. maybe someone under 250K can clean it up
moderation is horrible so far . . .
i want to hear about nuclear
but I am going to start throwing the term "festuned with Christmas tree ornaments" into conversations thanks to McCain
Jim Lehrer looks confused about where he is ...
first we gave loans to people who couldn't afford them...Now they need broadband too!!!
I'm festuned with hair spray .... Mccain again with the pork and spending ... his polling must show that people care, but I don't see it.
"John's right that we need to make some cuts" ...
Did McCain just propose a spending freeze? that's sort of news.
caring for our veterans?!? let's talk about caring for them through your limiting idea of a GI bill.
Obama opposes nukes -- I knew it!
i do agree with mccain on nuclear. finally. reprocessing would save us tons.
jim lehrer is asking stupid questions.
Senator, I'm asking for those tax cuts ...
haha- did obama call it an orgy of spending?
and can we get off less spending? we get the point mccain- each time you say it- you're not miss congeniality, you're a maverick. and your partner? she's a tool.