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The day's campaign features consisted of NBC's issues series Where They Stand, in which Jim Miklaszewski from the Pentagon walked us through the likely course of the Iraq War under either candidate's leadership. CBS anchor Katie Couric continued her Presidential Questions series with these two puzzlers: "What do you think is the best and the worst thing that ever happened to this country?" "Who are the three people who are alive you would most like to have dinner with?" Couric followed with the joke "other than me?"
Although both John McCain and Barack Obama agreed that its founding was the best thing that ever happened to the United States of America, they diverged on its focus. McCain preferred the Constitution, "a document that is still a model for the rest of the world" while Obama looked to the Declaration of Independence: "All men are created equal." What was worst? McCain named the Great Depression; Obama selected the peculiar institution of slavery "although the treatment of Native Americans oftentimes showed great cruelty"--which is a polite word for genocide.
Couric's dinner party would have the following seating: Nelson Mandela, Warren Buffett, David Petraeus, Meg Whitman, Michael Phelps and "my grandmother."
As for the Iraq War, NBC's Miklaszewski called the policy dispute between McCain and Obama "the most heated battle in the Presidential campaign" before concluding that either President would end up with a "residual force" of 50,000-or-so American troops stationed in Iraq for "15 to 20 years." The major difference between the two candidates' troop drawdowns would be that Obama's withdrawal timetable would be specific and McCain's would not be.
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