Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have met in the second of three presidential election debates. The townhall style debate was moderated by NBC’s Tom Brokaw.
It was a subdued encounter, likely to be scored a draw, in which both men were able to put their cases in a sober and restrained manner.
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The third and final debate between the presidential candidates will take place on October 15.
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have met in the first of three presidential debates ahead of the 2008 election.
McCain withdrew his demand for the debate’s cancellation, even though congressional negotiations on the financial bailout package are not yet concluded.
The debate was intended to be on foreign affairs, defence and security, but the first 35 minutes were devoted to economic issues.
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Senator Edward Kennedy has endorsed Barack Obama for this year’s presidential election. The senior senator from Massachusetts, and the sole surviving brother of John and Robert Kennedy, was accompanied by JFK’s daughter, Caroline, who endorsed Obama in an op-ed piece in the New York Times on the weekend.
Kennedy paid tribute to Senators Hillary Clinton and John Edwards but said his choice was based on “the candidate who inspires me, who inspires all of us, who can lift our vision and summon our hopes and renew our belief that our country’s best days are still to come”.
