{"id":450,"date":"2008-09-25T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T06:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:27","slug":"a-debate-under-duress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/09\/a-debate-under-duress","title":{"rendered":"A Debate Under Duress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really hope the first presidential debate occurs as planned Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Debates, theoretically, are rare opportunities to hear from candidates when their words are unscripted.  In reality, however, candidates often prepare for weeks ahead of time, including last-minute intense cram sessions like the ones you remember from your college days.<\/p>\n<p>What I love about the prospect of a debate Friday night is that both candidates have been severely preoccupied with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/26\/business\/26bailout.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">financial bailout fiasco<\/a> all week and are likely much less prepared than they would otherwise be. I think seeing Barack Obama and John McCain debate each other without all of the usual coaching and grooming that goes on before debates will be an extraordinarily better view into how much each of them really knows about the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>I want to see what each candidate will say in the middle of a storm, not after it.  Debate on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Side note: If you haven&#8217;t read the New York Times article linked to above yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/26\/business\/26bailout.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">give it a read<\/a>. It&#8217;s some pretty dramatic stuff, with Henry Paulson actually getting down on one knee in front of Nancy Pelosi.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hope the first presidential debate occurs as planned Friday night. Debates, theoretically, are rare opportunities to hear from candidates when their words are unscripted. In reality, however, candidates often prepare for weeks ahead of time, including last-minute intense cram sessions like the ones you remember from your college days. What I love about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}