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Any bloggers need a place near Hofstra

I'm not certain if this is the place to offer this, but it occurred to my husband and I that there may be some bloggers here that need a place to stay while covering the debate and we live less than a...

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Expectations - The Final Debate

John McCain is trailing in every poll outside the margin of error (even his campaign acknowledges that), and he needs to change the trajectory of this race. Conventional wisdom says that John McCain...

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Will Bob Schieffer Be Beguiled Once More?

Bob Schieffer, the moderator of tonight's presidential debate recently said:I don't know who's going to win this debate, but I think somebody is going to win. Somebody is going to score a decisive win....

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Love and Death On Long Island: Prologue

Love and Death on Long Island is a quirky independent film released in 1998, featuring an odd pair of stars: John Hurt, elder statesman of British stage and screen, and . . . Jason Priestley.  It's a...

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Love And Death On Long Island, Part 2

First, let's get the pettiness out of the way...what's up with Bob Schieffer's candy cane tie?McCain: Americans are hurt and angry. And hurt. Apparently all of the blinking is to hold back the tears as...

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Love And Death On Long Island, Part 5

Schieffer goes for the false equivalency in negative campaigning.McCain: It's all Obama's fault since he wouldn't do town halls with me. I regret some of the negativity, now let me be negative and...

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Love and Death on Long Island 3: Joe the Plumber

For the first 10-11 minutes, McCain would start a sentence and repeat phrases as if he was trying to remember the line he had been rehearsed on. He caught his stride a bit toward the end of the "Joe...

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Love and Death On Long Island: Part 4 - POP QUIZ: What Does Joe Do For a Living?

Joe is a plumber.  Not a carpenter or a painter or a mason.  A plumber.What is the plumber's name?His name is Joe.Lord, JSMIII is angry and uncomfortable tonight, like a guy with hemorrhoids stuck in...

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Love And Death On Long Island, Part 8

Oh, this should be fun...why would your running mate make a good president?Obama: It's Joe Biden man (long list of accomplishments).McCain: Americans, via Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, have really gotten...

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Love and Death On Long Island: Part 7 - Schieffs - Making a Big Election...

Barack Obama Is a Phenomenally Cool Guy.  Nothing can ruffle Barack Obama.  He played the John Lewis thing so well.  And McCain is freaking out.But the real story here is how much worse a moderator...

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Love and Death on Long Island 9

A couple threads ago, Trapper John said this:Barack Obama Is a Phenomenally Cool Guy.  Nothing can ruffle Barack Obama. I must agree and endorse the sentiment. And the contrast becomes all the stronger...

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Love and Death On Long Island: Part 10: McCain Brings the L.I.E. Through...

The Long Island Expressway runs about 10 miles north of Hempstead, but McCain is bringing the L.I.E. to Hofstra tonight. On Ayers, on spending, on Palin, on taxes . . . he's caught Palin...

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Hate Talk Express:  Keep On Rollin'!

John McCain is very proud of his Hate Talk Express. You know, the one that doesn't say a word about their supporters shouting "kill him" when they hear Barack Obama's name.In tonight's debate, McCain...

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Love and Death on Long Island 12: Stunned and Befuddled Look

There is no way we will ever be able to say enough about the look on John McCain's face when Obama looked warmly out at Joe the Hypothetical Plumber and said Joe's fine would be zero. Total, stunned,...

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Love and Death On Long Island: Part 13: [deeply perplexed and astonished stare]

That look on JSMIII's face when Obama smacked him down on his lies about Joe the plumber under the Obama health plan . . . ohhh, it was priceless.  Really, the moment of the debate.  Know your shit,...

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Love And Death On Long Island, Part 14

McCain: Baby killer!McCain doesn't seem to understand that most Americans support some degree of abortion rights.Obama: John's a liar (he said it in a nicer way). Democrats, Republicans and the medical...

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Post debate thoughts

In Isaac Asimov's 1955 book "Franchise", a supercomputer chooses a "voter of the year" to decide the fate of the election. Then, that person answers a series of questions which the computer uses to...

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Love and Death on Long Island 15

Ha ha ha ha ha.McCain needed a game-changing debate. It's not just that he hasn't had that. It's that Obama has owned him like he didn't in those two previous debates -- both of which Obama roundly...

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Love and Death On Long Island: Part 16 - Sweeping Up The Broken Pieces of...

This is by far Obama's best performance.  And McCain is still a scowling lizard, tonguing the air to taste/smell the cool being radiated by Obama.BO: Children aren't a special interest.  zing!JSMIII...

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