2012 presidential debate schedule is released

By Richard K. Barry

Here's an exciting bit of news for all you political junkies out there: The Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Monday where the four debates will take place.

Be still my heart.

For the presidential debates, the three meetings will be in Colorado, New York and Florida. The vice presidential debate will take place in Kentucky.

As the New York Times reports:

The first presidential debate will be Oct. 3 at the University of Denver, followed by one on Oct. 16 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The final debate is scheduled for Oct. 22 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. The vice presidential debate is set for Oct. 11 at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.

I am still having a very hard time imagining that the Republican nominee will be anyone but Mitt Romney. Democrats everywhere can certainly hope that some damn fool like Rick Perry or Herman Cain will be going up against President Obama. Even I don't think Republicans are that stupid, but stranger things have happened.

Hey, it's actually starting to get a little exciting, for those of us who get excited about stuff like this.

(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)

He is The One

By Creature

This pretty much sums up how Obama handled John McCain's petulant attacks in the debate last night.



(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)

It's his biography, stupid

By Creature

As I said last night, I believe Barack Obama not only won last night's debate, I believe he put the race away. In retrospect, however, it wasn't his health care as a "right" answer, and it wasn't even his successful punch-back to John McCain's "he doesn't understand" mantra, it was his weaving of his biography into the debate that really won the night (and possibly the presidency) for him.

The lower John McCain gets in the polls the harder he is trying to make Obama into the untrustworthy, terrorist, "other" who came out of nowhere. John McCain likes to remind his mobs that they "know him." Well, last night, in front of a huge audience, Barack Obama was able to bring up his mom, her death from cancer, the fact that he had little growing up, his education, and finally his wife to combat that "other" tag. So, not only did Barack Obama reassure America that he has the policy chops, foreign and domestic, to lead the country, he reassured America that he is one of them as well.

The man raised his game last night to Clintonian levels, I'm sure the polls will follow.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)

"That One"

By Creature

As Andrew Sullivan said: "The moment the contempt spilled over."



And, right on time, also via Sully:



(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)