October 8, 2008 7:12 AM PDT

CBS Webcast: Examining McCain-Obama debate No. 2

by Jonathan Skillings
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With just four weeks to go until Election Day, John McCain and Barack Obama met again Tuesday night in the second of three presidential debates.

The White House hopefuls covered familiar ground on topics ranging from the economy and the government's financial rescue plan to how to handle complex foreign policy hot spots, including Pakistan, Iraq, and Iran.

On the tech front, not much was said in the debate, which followed a town-hall format, though McCain suggested that he has considered former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a potential Secretary of the Treasury. Whitman got second billing, though--McCain first named Warren Buffett as a fine choice for that office. Obama allowed that he likes Buffett's economic savvy, too.

For a recap and analysis of Tuesday's debate, check out the Debate Webcast presented here from Katie Couric and the CBS News political team. (It was originally presented immediately after the event.) The CBS Webcast features questions submitted from Web users before and during the debate.

Jonathan Skillings is managing editor of CNET News, based in the Boston bureau. He's been with CNET since 2000, after a decade in tech journalism at the IDG News Service, PC Week, and an AS/400 magazine. He's also been a soldier and a schoolteacher. E-mail Jon.
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by MaggieRed October 8, 2008 11:57 AM PDT
CNET Networks, Inc., a CBS Company.

That says it all, CNET has lost all of its credibility. Shame for the few good writers there, they get lumped into all the bad apples of CBS.
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by Dia_ October 8, 2008 4:36 PM PDT
Please ask McCain why our military can fight in these wars, deployment after deployment, then come home and not be covered by Tricare(military health insurance). Many of our military go into debt, have their credit ruined and have their military wages garnished because they get sick between duty stations and aren't covered by health insurance. Their healthcare bills are thousands of dollars. The word is spreading that if you sign up, there is no health insurance for any military reservists, their civilian jobs are interupted and they worry if they would even will have their jobs when they come back.
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