US Presidential Election 2008: Presidential Debates (and parodies)

THE ORIGINAL DEBATES:

By going to the following website, you can access both the presidential and vice presidential debates. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html

If you run the video on this site, the transcript appears next to the video.

The following website will take you to Factcheck.org, which analyzes each candidate's claims: http://www.factcheck.org/justarchive/ A transcript of the video clip is available, too. (By the way, the program itself is available as a vidcast)

Here is an analysis of the second presidential debate:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95504018&ps=cprs

THE PARODIES:

Of course you won't want to miss the parodies of the debates:

Vice-presidential debate: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/vp-debate-open-palin-biden/727421/

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=186763

First presidential debate: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/presidential-debate/704121/

Second presidential debate: http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=187363

http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=187381

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=187581