NEW YORK What is the point of a presidential debate? In the context of American presidential elections, debate is something of a misnomer.

Reagan hosted a 2012 Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Presidential Library on September 7, 2011.

Lehrer hosted the first United States presidential election debate for the 2012 U.S. presidential general election.

CHICAGO A real debate is emerging in America s presidential election campaign.

However, this was not the first presidential debate in the Arab world, as in Mauritania in 2007 a televised presidential debate took place between Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and Ahmed Ould Daddah.

Several netizens tweeted about the second presidential debate and made laugh of candidates.

Blogger Ruwayda Mustafah compiled the presidential debate tweets part 1, part 2 and a factcheck.

As such, the currency debate looms as a major issue in the upcoming US presidential campaign.

She was the first woman to moderate a presidential debate since ABC's Carole Simpson in 1992.

Following Egypt's first ever presidential debate, and with interviews being held every day with presidential candidates, political analyst Mohamed Seif Eldawla has written on his blog Zakerat Aloma about the questions missing from the presidential debates .

A mistake in a presidential debate can turn the tide of public opinion overnight, as happened to President Gerald Ford in his debate with Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon during the first televised U.S. presidential debate in 1960.

Later that night, Schwarzenegger was in the audience at a Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.

Americans have once again finished a presidential campaign season in which the quality of the debate over economic policy was abysmal.

In America today, the presidential debate is between Senator John McCain, a war hero, and Senator Barack Obama, a former community organizer.

And the level and tone of political debate for example, within Facebook groups created by presidential candidates or their supporters are worrying.

Meanwhile, over the course of three televised presidential debates and one vice presidential debate, climate change, the signature issue of our time and the most serious problem confronting our planet, was not mentioned even once.

On May 10, 2012, people around the region and beyond were pinned to their screens following Egypt's first ever presidential debate, which was between the top two presidential candidates, Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh.

In Britain s first ever presidential television debate the youthful Nick Clegg stole the show for the Liberal Democrats with his freshness and directness.

One big surprise of the current presidential campaign in France is how national identity has surged to the forefront of the political debate.

AbdEl Rahman Khaled tweeted اللي هيطلع كسبان من ال مناظرة_الرئاسة دي هو حمدين_صباحي The winner of this presidential debate will be Hamdeen Sabahi

Today s debate over national identity arises from this tension, so it s not surprising that it has become a central issue of the presidential campaign.

Other interesting developments on the eve of the election include a fierce public debate over whether to vote or to boycott the presidential race.

What candidates promise on the stump is not always what they do in office. In the second presidential debate, Obama said, We will kill bin Laden.

A special word of appreciation goes to the delegation of Japan for its work on the presidential statement and for its overall engagement in support of our debate today.

The presidential debate merely reinforced the dominant real time plotline Assassinating people (including US citizens) solely on the president s orders, once considered a war crime, has become an applause line.

It was only 20 years ago that, during Bill Clinton s first presidential campaign, his wife Hillary s career that is, the fact that she had one of her own sparked wild and vituperative debate.

The French presidential election may be over, but the fact that outgoing president Nicolas Sarkozy chose immigration as a core theme of his campaign is still the subject of much debate on the Web.

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We are of the view that the presidential statement to be adopted at the end of today's debate would gain from mentioning the need for increased cooperation with Interpol in tracing small arms and light weapons.

The German debate is still largely a policy debate.

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