25 September 2008: Morning By The Morning News — 25 Sep 2008 Video: Letterman craters McCain for pausing his campaign, choosing Couric over Washington. Yes, presidential debates are important--sometimes dramatic and momentous, as these clips show. The GOP revels in rhetoric about never blinking--against terrorism, etc.--and now McCain? He's blinking Op: It took President Bush until Wednesday night to address the American people about the nation's financial crisis, and pretty much all he had to offer was fear itself. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship. Urgent bailout spam. American's Foreign Policy Gift Shop: Souvenir tchotchkes in remembrance of the last eight years. ...lame-@zz UZer Rating of 1.3. U liked it? Wat up wit dat? Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Roger Ebert responds in appropriate register. Love it: The speech accent archive. "See my eyes," Barbara would say. "Jewish eyes are sort of big and brown and terribly sad." More vintage wisdom from Helen Gurley Brown. Preparing for The Great (perpetual) Resources Wars of the Late 21st Century--seriously. Video: Jackson State University Marching Band twirler in the moment.