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Too bad. I really like Charlie Gibson.

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Seriously - you have to ask such an obvious question? Simple put - the BEST were chosen.

Why "throw a bone" to ABC? Moderators - like, well, candidates - should be chosen with no consideration to throwing a bone to OTA and/or cable and/or online representation. Period.

My disappointment is with the lack of unmoderated or "town hall" debates. Those are the only ones that actually reach out to me. And despite likely voting for Obama, IMHO it's a feather in McCain's hat that he appeared to be willing for more debates in that format.

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I don't know if the moderaters themselves write the questions that the candiates are asked or if its done by committe, but they should have just bypassed the network people, be it ABC or CNN, and simply went the PBS personalities of Charlie Rose, Tavis Smiley, and Bill Moyers. That's all I need is someone like the dry and droll voice of Tom Brokaw moderating.

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Tom Brokaw should fold his tent and - GO AWAY! HE TRIES TO ACT LIKE A MOVIE STAR AND HE IS "OVER THE HILL" AND SHOULD STOP TRYING TO BE "ONE OF THE GUYS". HIS STUPID TWANG IS SOOO ANOYING AND HE IS A "HAS BEEN" AND SHOULD ACCEPT THE FACT THAT HE'S BORINGGGGGGGG.

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Tom Brokaw is boring, stupid, and so unbelievably unprofessional. (1. It was infutiating seeing that tag team of Brokaw and Lieberman against Kerry on MTP. What the hell! 2. The horribly balanced panel afterward: Journalists, and a Republican consultant.)

I am not sure if Schieffer is worse or not. I wanted to string the old fart up by his wrinkled neck at his ridiculous reaction to Wesley Clark when he had him on a couple weeks ago.

Gwen Ifill and Lehrer are wonderful, definitely, but to say that these four anchors, collectively, are the best on Television, is a fucking joke.

I have to agree at the ridiculousness of 3 presidential debates. Yes, 22 was equally ridiculous. It really doesn't matter anyway, because Obama is going to lose. I'm resigned to that fact now. First FISA, public financing, oil drilling, the debates, etc. He is dropping in the polls by the day. Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, etc. were all much farther ahead in the polls at this time in those presidential cycles, and they all lost. How much will Obama lose by by the time this is all said and done? 20 points? It is the biggest joke in the world that everybody talks like he is the frontrunner, because at this point, with the combination of the racism in this country, Obama's cowardice, and McCain's Rovian attack machine, Obama will be lucky if he gets within 10 points of McCain on election day.

I'm not bitter. I'm disgusted with the whole lot of them. Two choices. The incompetent coward, or the incompetent, fumbling, old crook. I guess I'll vote for the coward, but don't call me enthusiastic.

(As sad as Obama has made me, he's still better than Hillary. She would have shown some balls, but it would have been a race between McCain and Hillary at who could pander to the lowest common denominator fast enough. The dueling, disgusting attack machines certainly would have been entertaining.)

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I hate town hall's, they are always fake no matter what they are fake.

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People, get a clue! "Town Hall" meetings are as staged as any formal debate. The questions are pre-screened. Debates are equally useless as proven by the ABC democratic primary debate. Most of the questions aren't even about issues that are important to voters. I haven't enjoyed a debate since Ross Perot and his charts!

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The debates will be good if they finally get both candidates talking about the issues. Obama is doing that somewhat now but all we are getting from the right wing are Paris Hilton commercials and complaints that they don't like it that Obama is so popular. Maybe if the debates actaully get McCain to pony up a platform, we might have a clue of why we should or should not vote for him.

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wow sounds cool a debate for the presidential candidates..well I'm Expecting that they will talked about the current political issue and especially the taxes. well the soaring oil prices affects all from food to our daily needs and now we pay higher taxes? i just heard recently in pollclash that they talked about this and thinking that would they keep their promises? well just see the video http://pollclash.com

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In the interest of full disclosure, I am a conservative (becoming more Independent than Republican) and may even write in my vote this year. Definitely not a McCain fan, but Barry Hussein Obama is chicken for not agreeing to more townhall debates. While I agree some of the questions may be staged, there is no doubt that with liberal moderators like Brokaw, Lehrer and Schieffer in the Q&A debates, McCain will draw the short stick. How about Britt Hume, Chris Wallace or Bill O'Reilly? But then, Obama might actually have to answer some tough questions without a rehearsal. FOX News at least interviews political analysts from each side of the aisle (think Bob Beckel, Howard Wolfsen, Kirsten Powers, Susan Estrich, Harold Ford, Jr.) and offers both sides of an issue (e.g., Hannity & Colmes). Name that many conservatives on any other network. The anti-elitist tone of FOX's reporters display the difference from the other networks' worldview because they don’t talk down to their audience. I don’t need an anchor to interpret the news for me as Peter Jennings often did. I’m intelligent enough to make up my own mind about current events and I resent those folks in the mainstream media who think everyday people who make up the backbone of America are stupid. According to a Rasmussen poll, 72 percent of Americans find FOX News reliable. Even Hillary had to admit that FOX had treated her fairer than any other news channel.

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That should be "The University of Mississippi, Oxford" for the September debate.

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