FROM OLE MISS: Excitement’s building in media tent

By Patsy R. Brumfield
Daily Journal
OXFORD – Greetings, everybody!
I’m writing from the great big white, air-conditioned media tent just northeast of where Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain will face off tonight.
And yes, they’ll be here, campaigns have promised.
While the Journal has other reporters wandering on the outside of the secure debate scene, I’m smack dab [...]

It’s on/Photos from Oxford …

The debate is on. Look for blogging here the rest of the day and night from Journal News Editor Patsy R. Brumfield and Monroe Journal staff writer Jeff Clark.
Here are some photos from Patsy in Oxford …

Debate, bailout … what do you think?

Plenty of things going on today. Tell us what you think ….
Deal said to be near on big financial bailout plan
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi voiced hope Thursday that a White House accommodation with congressional leaders on protections for taxpayers will help speed agreement on a bill to [...]

Debate update Wednesday

Brooks Poole walks past a flag-decorated building in Oxford. Businesses in Oxford have been decorating windows and storefronts in preparation for the debate Friday. (AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman)
The New York Times takes a look at Ole Miss and Oxford click here to read about it.
From The Daily Mississippian – James Meredith proud Ole Miss [...]

Hazards in a half century of presidential debates

By WALTER R. MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
Weary and recovering from illness, Richard Nixon looked so bad in his TV debate with John Kennedy that his mom called afterward to see if he was all right. Forty years later, Al Gore loudly sighed, shrugged in exasperation and got in George W. Bush’s face in a display of [...]