Presidential Candidates to Debate at Ole Miss



Hillary Clinton, on learning that the first presidential debate will be located in Mississippi.

The University of Mississippi will host the first 2008 presidential debate Sept. 26 at its Oxford campus. The event will be held in the 1,200-seat Gertrude Ford Performing Arts Center. Ole Miss was selected from 19 other potential sites — 14 of which were other colleges or universities — by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

The city’s 700 or so hotel rooms are inadequate to serve the more than 4,000 visitors expected, so they will be shuttled to hotels in Tupelo, Batesville, Memphis, Grenada and other neighboring north Mississippi cities. The Alluvian may also see a spike in traffic that weekend, with the potential for a presidential debate package including a shuttle ride to Oxford in the British taxi.

There will be three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate next year. The other two presidential debates will be held on Oct. 7 at Belmont University in Nashville and on Oct. 15 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The vice-presidential debate will be held Oct. 2 at Washington University in St. Louis.

Assuming that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic presidential nominee, and recounting her political faux pas involving the degradation of the entire State of Mississippi, I wonder if there will be a campaign backlash that stems from this debate location. One can only hope so.

Comments

Anonymous said…
good photo of old hillblly! be nice to those tar heal's now,ya hear!

seyalin
11:34 AM
Anonymous said…
I think Hillary is HOT!
11:37 PM
John Wesley Leek said…
Be ye' kind.
3:13 PM
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