Bob McCarty Writes

Search the transcript of tonight’s presidential debate for the word, “Ayers,” and you’ll find it appears four times — but only as the last five letters of another word, “taxpayers.”
In what might rank as the greatest surprise and disappointment of the town hall-style event held at Nashville’s Belmont University, Republican John McCain failed to mention [...]

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Despite the fact it’s taking place some 900 miles from the world-famous horse-racing venue in Upstate New York, Tuesday night’s presidential debate at Nashville’s Belmont University will be jokingly referred to by some in the mainstream news media as the “Belmont Stakes.”  Those in the MSM will not, however, be so bold as to match [...]

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Today, Paul G. Kirk, Jr. and Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. announced the finalized formats of the 2008 presidential and vice presidential debates agreed to by the Obama and McCain campaigns.  In calling them “a breakthrough in the history of televised debates,” however, the co-chairmen of The Commission on Presidential Debates may have exaggerated a [...]

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