Hal Eisner's Blog

Right now I'm writing to you from the Reagan Library in Simi Valley from what's called "The Filing Room." Just across the way ... another special place. Every president debate has one of these things ... the spin room. The idea is after the debate for people from each camp to spin reporters into oblivion with why their candidates did so well and won the debate ... even if they lost!
The spin room stood still for a few moments though just hours before the debate as Rudy Guliani ended his presidential campaign and handed off his dreams to John McCain.
The interesting thing though will be to watch McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul as they stand at podiums under Air Force one in the shadow of Ronald Reagan's library ... all knowing Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow republican.
It took 6 months to build the 3 story stage under and around the the flying white house that served Reagan and 6 other presidents from 1973 to 2001 and was the great communicators airborne office taking him some 600,000 miles around the country and world.
How many times will we hear Ronald Reagan's name during this debate? Kind of like guessing at the number of gumballs in a fishbowl ... want to take a guess?