Friday, October 17, 2008

McCain v. Obama: Competing Visions for America

http://www.robertstrausscenter.org/events/view/64

The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and
the Center for Politics and Governance invite you to McCain v. Obama:
Competing Visions for America, a discussion of foreign and domestic
policy, with panelists Harold Ford, Jr., Lee Feinstein, and Tod
Lindberg on Thursday, October 23, 2008, at 6:00 pm in the LBJ Library
Atrium, 10th Floor. Refreshments will be served, and parking is
available in the LBJ Library lot on Red River Street.

This town hall-style debate with prominent supporters of John McCain
and Barack Obama will examine the competing visions the two
presidential candidates have for foreign and domestic policy. Dr.
James M. Lindsay, Director of the Strauss Center, and Veronica
Stidvent, Director of the Center for Politics and Governance, will
moderate the debate, asking questions of the panelists before opening
the floor to audience members. The panelists are:
  • Harold Ford, Jr., Chairman, Democratic Leadership Council and formerU. S. Representative from Tennessee;
  • Lee Feinstein, former Director of National Security for HillaryClinton for President and Visiting Fellow in the Foreign PolicyStudies Program at the Brookings Institution; and
  • Tod Lindberg, Editor, Policy Review.
The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law
engages the best minds in academia, government and the private sector
in developing practical solutions to the pressing problems of an
increasingly globalized world. For more information on the Strauss
Center, please visit www.RobertStraussCenter.org.

The Center for Politics and Governance is committed to developing new
approaches to political institutions that will foster creative
policymaking. Our areas of focus are the effect of campaign politics
on policy, the changing demographics of the American electorate,
ethical leadership, and the role of the media and emerging
technologies. For more information, please visit
www.utexas.edu/lbj/cpg.

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