Ok Presidential nominees will battle it out again tonite for the second debate, BURY HIM OBAMA, ahem…im sorry…LOL
I think McCain is going ot use some dirty tricks and do his fair share of mudslinging since he is behind in the polls, and if he does, which im sure he will, it will be a testament to his true character.
Im off for a few days of rest and relaxtion….. Enjoy the debate peeps
(CNN) – Sen. Barack Obama is “prepared for a very aggressive debate” with Sen. John McCain, Obama’s spokesman said Tuesday.
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama will meet again Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee.
McCain “has signaled to his supporters that he is going to be very aggressive in this debate,” Obama campaign spokesman David Axelrod said en route from Asheville, North Carolina, to Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday.
“He is going to take the gloves off. So I hope in the course of it, he has time to speak to the state of our economy, which is in deep trouble right now.”
McCain aides, however, say he is not planning to go on the attack. McCain’s final hours of debate preparations focused on highlighting sharp policy differences with Obama on taxes, health care and other pocketbook issues, the aides said. Watch tonight’s debate on CNN.com/Live
At a campaign event last week, however, a voter asked McCain when he was going to “let the gloves come off and go after” Obama.
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McCain’s response: “How about Tuesday night?”
Nicole Wallace, a senior adviser to McCain, said Tuesday that McCain has just been responding to attacks from Obama.
“Barack Obama has spent a record number of dollars attacking John McCain with ads that are usually not even truthful,” Wallace said on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”
“We’re going to respond, we’re going to set the record straight and unfortunately it’s something we have to do more and more often.”iReport.com: What do you want to hear tonight?
Tuesday’s face-off, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, follows several days of intense sparring from both nominees’ camps.
Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain’s running mate, accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,” and Obama’s campaign released an ad quoting editorials that called McCain “erratic” and “out of touch.”
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The back-and-forth could set the stage for a more heated event than the first presidential debate, one that had few sharp exchanges as both candidates largely stuck to their talking points.
Tuesday’s debate is the second in the series of three presidential debates, but the format is different from the other two events. 
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The second debate will be set up like a town hall meeting, and the audience will be made up of uncommitted voters.
“These debates, town hall debates, are often very telling. They often provide the most dramatic moments in a campaign,” said Bill Schneider, CNN’s senior political analyst.
“If either of the candidates tries to go negative when you’re with an audience of ordinary voters, they don’t like it. We’ve heard them sometimes get very upset when the candidates start attacking each other, so that’s going to be hard to do in a town hall format,” he said.
Republican strategist Alex Castellanos said Tuesday that McCain needs to avoid going on the attack.
“I don’t think an attack strategy is what McCain needs right now. What he needs is a comeback strategy,” he said.
Democratic strategist Paul Begala said Obama needs to “show empathy” in the debate.
“I want to see tonight the same guy who used to go into church basements and work one-on-one with factory workers in Chicago who lost their job through no fault of their own. That’s who he’s going to be talking to tonight,” he said.
The candidates will not only take questions from moderator Tom Brokaw of NBC News on Tuesday; they’ll also answer questions from the audience and from Internet participants.
The first and third debates are divided into approximately eight 10-minute segments. The moderator introduces each segment with an issue and gives each candidate two minutes to respond. Then there is a five-minute discussion period, when direct exchanges between the candidates occur.
Obama’s campaign has been playing up the idea that Tuesday’s town hall setting will benefit McCain.
Going into to debates, campaigns try to build up expectations for their opponent while lowering the bar for their candidate.
“When it comes to sheer format, we enter today’s debate the decided underdog,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton in a memo sent to reporters.
“John McCain does extremely well in town hall settings. It’s been his favorite format throughout his career and we think that he will of course do very well.”
