Scenes From The Hall

By Kleinheider Posted on September 28, 2008 at 4:52 pm

The Sage of Cordova gives us an inside look from the goings on in Oxford during the first Presidential debate:

On Thursday, when two Ole Miss students had stood at the same lecterns as McCain and Obama would an evening later, running through a simulated debate for such purposes as a sound-check and lighting-check, their improvised lines seemed both crisper and more original.

When the two students arrived on stage, incidentally, their exchange of handshakes and pleasantries (”Have a nice trip down? Good”) would make a pointed contrast to that which took place a day later between the two presidential candidates. Obama mouthed similar amenities, but McCain barely nodded as the two contenders touched gloves.

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