First 2008 Presidential Debate TONIGHT

Posted September 26, 2008, 1:46 p.m.

The first formal Presidential debate between Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) will be held tonight at 9pm EDT. This is the first of three scheduled general election debates between the two major-party candidates. Third-party candidates are excluded from participation.

Tonight’s debate will be held at the University of Mississippi and will be moderated by PBS NewsHour host Jim Lehrer. The official topic of the evening is foreign policy and national security.

I strongly recommend that all Americans watch this debate, as well as the remaining Presidential and Vice Presidential debates between now and the November elections. For unfettered coverage, I recommend watching the debates on C-SPAN rather than any of the commercial broadcast and cable news outlets.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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Error has no rights.

I wish for nothing more than a good government and a constitution under which our liberties will be perfectly safe.

If tyranny is at all feared, the tyranny of the many is to be guarded against more than that of a single person.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Don’t judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

Regardless of its hypothetical virtues . . . the implementation of Marxism was a disaster everywhere it was attempted. . . .

There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.

Religion is no less the companion of liberty in all its battles and its triumphs; the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

What’s weird about modern western society is millions of people pretend to not understand basic truths, because it has been implicitly accepted that ‘political correctness’ is more important than truth.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Maturity is not a matter of age. You have matured when you are no longer concerned with showing how clever you are, and give your full attention to getting the job done right. Many never reach that stage, no matter how old they get.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

One of the strongest walls in our mental prisons is a thing called history. And history isn’t even real.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

One of life’s few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

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