The candidates will face off in a standard debate format, on domestic issues, with Bob Schieffer of CBS News moderating.
In many ways, this has been a standard debate about a scientist's legacy but, so soon after Corkin's death, passions have run too high for a cool consideration.
Anyway, Romney is showing he can do a town hall fomat just as well as a standard debate, when he's not kibbitzing about the rules and being a bit of a dick.
Obama here didn't point out to the audience that Clinton was using a standard conservative debating ploy, but he instead simply accepted her conservative and false framing of this issue, and then proceeded to weaken his own progressive proposal into confusing mush, so as to make it harder for her to attack, yet without his actually defending it.
[Here, she was using the same basic argument that Republicans do against taxes that are targeted at the rich: saying that 'Small businessmen' - here 'firefighters' etc. - will get hit hard by this new tax.' This is a standard conservative debating tactic that she was using, to deceive the audience against a progressive proposal.]... OBAMA: That's why I would look at potentially exempting [them].
A standard stalemate debate between Abby and Theresa on the usual teenager-parent subjects (school, sex, bad influences) has a piquant ring of realness that keeps it from congealing into clichés.
In a standard Pro Con debate, two experts are asked to take opposing points of view on a particular topic.
(The standard feminist debate over gender nominalism and gender realism has largely been about kind essentialism. Being about individual essentialism, Witt's uniessentialism departs in an important way from the standard debate).
It is embarrassing that the fiduciary standard debate rages on without a resolution.
Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has given a personal pitch to the audience at the London Evening Standard debate.
