First 2008 Presidential Debate TONIGHT

Posted September 26, 2008, 1:46 p.m.

The first formal Presidential debate between Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) will be held tonight at 9pm EDT. This is the first of three scheduled general election debates between the two major-party candidates. Third-party candidates are excluded from participation.

Tonight’s debate will be held at the University of Mississippi and will be moderated by PBS NewsHour host Jim Lehrer. The official topic of the evening is foreign policy and national security.

I strongly recommend that all Americans watch this debate, as well as the remaining Presidential and Vice Presidential debates between now and the November elections. For unfettered coverage, I recommend watching the debates on C-SPAN rather than any of the commercial broadcast and cable news outlets.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus Christ

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit ascends to contemplation of truth.

John Paul II

You cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form.

Michael Crichton

The two greatest institutions ever devised for lifting people out of poverty and enabling them to live in dignity are the market economy and the institution of marriage. These institutions will stand together, or they will fall together.

Robert George

The establishment of a Constitution, in time of profound peace, by the voluntary consent of a whole people, is a prodigy, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling anxiety.

Alexander Hamilton

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Fulton Sheen

No matter how formidably communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Instinctively, we turn to holy people for their prayers because they seem nearer to God. Why would we stop asking saints for their prayers after they die? If we believe they are in heaven, would not their prayers be even more effective?

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Names are not arbitrary labels. Names are meanings. We grow into our names, or we fail to grow into them; we live out our names, or we fail to live them out.

Peter Kreeft

For me, the worst thing about having King Kong walk down your street is that kids could look up and see the giant genitalia.

Jack Handey

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Salvador Dalí

Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners!

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations. . . .

James Madison

The name of God must never be used to support immoral acts.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

G.K. Chesterton

Salvation, while personal, is not private. To be incorporated into Christ is to be incorporated into his Church. You cannot sunder the two: it is not two in any case. It is one thing.

Thomas Howard

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Liberals make the same mistake and judge neither. But if you don’t judge the sin, you don’t care about the sinner. If you don’t hate the cancer, you don’t love the patient.

Peter Kreeft

Wherever the poor direct public affairs and dispose of the national resources, it appears certain that, as they profit by the expenditure of the state, they are apt to augment that expenditure.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Go to Top	`tt`
Go to Bottom	`tb`
Search	`ts`
Main Content	`tc`
Open Gallery (if present)	`tg`
Open Flagpole	`tf`
Keyboard Shortcuts	`tk`
Site Information	`ti`

Main Menu

Sidebar

First 2008 Presidential Debate TONIGHT

Main Menu

Sidebar

X

Site Information

Keyboard Shortcuts