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...Obama campaign is similar to other campaigns that ran predominantly on a ticket of “change” against a party which had been in power for some time. Both Tony Blair in the U.K. in 1997, and Gerhard Schroeder a year later in Germany, harnessed the power of such a message in unseating center-right opponents who had ruled for more than a decade. If the tide of history is behind a challenger pushing “change,” it is one of the most powerful forces in politics...
Both the Obama and McCain campaigns declined to discuss specific details of their preparation. "It's the sausage-making part of the process," says Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University journalism professor and author of Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV. "It's the part of the process the public is not meant...
Before Quayle's infamous 1988 debate with Lloyd Bentsen, stand-in Bob Packwood assured Quayle that Bentsen was a courteous man who wouldn't be rough on the young Senator, Schroeder says...
...That's the most famous putdown in debate history," Schroeder says. "There's an example of bad preparation...
...care a whit about business will be intrigued by this portrait of a boy who endured a verbally abusive mother and grew into a man desperately dependent on a series of women to bolster his psyche--even as he became the richest person on the planet. Schroeder, a former insurance-industry analyst, spent years interviewing Buffett, and the result is a side of the Oracle of Omaha that has rarely been seen. When Buffett's daughter tells him he doesn't have to go to his wife's funeral, he is awash with relief: "'I can't,' he said...