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Starting at 10am EST - Liveblogging ABC's This Week on OpenLeft.com

Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 06:58:36 AM PDT

Hi - it's Adam Green with MoveOn. Just a reminder that at 10am EST, I'll be liveblogging ABC's This Week over on OpenLeft.com. George Stephanopoulos will be interviewing John McCain, just days after the ABC debate disaster. I wanted to invite everyone to join the discussion as we compare and contrast.

A few links to get the thinking started: Click here to see the transcript of Wednesday's debate, click here for a cool video/transcript, and click here if you haven't yet signed MoveOn's petition to ABC (over a quarter million have!).

See you on OpenLeft!

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  •  You should put a link! (0+ / 0-)

    to the liveblog.

  •  There's also coveritlive.com (0+ / 0-)

    Coveritlive.com allows you to liveblog within an iframe and take comments from blog viewers within the panel. A very nice alternative to constantly updating the same post. (I am not a paid operative, but I've used it several times, and know several others who've used it)

  •  I've already watched (7+ / 0-)

    1. And I'm surprised that McCain went straight at the Ayers issue. He will make it a campaign issue BIG TIME. McCain defends Coburn as a great American (I guess you have to be a Republican to appreciate the guy.)
    1. George does raise the Hagee issue and McCain denounces but does not reject. He doesn't like the Catholic bashing, but he embraces Hagee's endorsement.
    1. McCain sticks to his guns on taxes and argues that he can offset them with budget cuts, including subsidies to farmers for ethanol (good bye Iowa and other farm states?)
    1. No surprise the panel of "pundits" defend Stehpanopolous' debate questions - though they specifically avoid mentioning the flag-pin and "Does Rev. Wright love America?" question. They criticize those who criticize Stephanopolous as having situational values, feeling outrage simply because the questions were posed to Obama.
    1. The general tone of the panel is quite anti-Obama. Will, Cokie, and Donaldson all give the sense he's an elitist leftist out of step with America.

    I live in my own little world...but it's okay. They know me here.

    by John Campanelli on Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 07:12:39 AM PDT

  •  I didn't watch (3+ / 0-)

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    jeepdad, peace voter, costello7

    No ratings for them from me. I am waiting for the You Tube video.

    "Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect that spirit as well. " Barack Obama:A More Perfect Union

    by WeBetterWinThisTime on Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 07:24:06 AM PDT

  •  I swore never to watch ABC again (2+ / 0-)

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    peace voter, costello7

    after the "debate" and I'm sticking to it. Blech.

    O, let America be America again-- The land that never has been yet-- And yet must be--the land where every man is free. - Langston Hughes, 1938.

    by Liberal Kansan on Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 07:35:45 AM PDT

  •  Did anyone notice how GS is sitting in the (1+ / 0-)

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    costello7

    a weaker position on the roundtable and that they brought in Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, and George Will to babysit Georgie today.

  •  EDT not EST (0+ / 0-)

    Not sure why this is such a complicated concept.

    For most of the Eastern Time Zone (most of Indiana excepted) switched to Daylight from Standard time last month - hence EST is not in effect presently, EDT is.

    •  In other words we (0+ / 0-)

      should start referring to it as ETZ or plain ol' Eastern because none of us are going to remember if it's when you fall back that you go into daylight saving of if you go forward.  All I know is the clock changes and only my programmer hubby cares which is which.

      •  What is so difficult (0+ / 0-)

        in remembering that S is short for Standard and D is short for daylight?

        And if that is hard, then note that the timestamp for Daily Kos posts use ST and DT when it is appropriate.

        And if that is still too hard, then just say ET, which covers nearly all of the Eastern time zone year round.

        •  What's so hard is remembering which one I'm in. (0+ / 0-)

          Is summer Daylight savings or is winter Daylight savings?  It seems like it's winter when we really need to save Daylight so it makes no sense that when we switch in the fall I have less daylight in the evening when I'm up to view it.

          I'm just glad I know that yes I'm in a Daylight saving state.

          OOOOOOOO that raises a question.  When you say Easter Daylight Time are all the states in the Eastern Time zone a member of the Daylight Savings brigade?  What happens if one opts out?

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