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| 8bd14f8 | There was a revealing moment in the first presidential debate in September 2008, moderator Jim Lehrer asked the candidates, ''Are you willing to acknowledge, both of this financial crisis is going to affect the way you rule the country as president of the States?''Neither McCain nor Obama objected to Lehrer's phrasing. Both, it seemed, perfectly comfortable with the idea that it's the president's job to ''rule the country. | presidential-debates us-politics us-presidency | Gene Healy |