Comments on: What Debate?

By: Ken Sternberg

Ken Sternberg — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:19:51 +0000

Oh, but were presidential candidates thrown into a genuine, Oxford-style debate. It’s been nothing but choreographed sound bites for at least 12 years now. Even then, the portion that I watched was less than inspiring from either candidate. Nothing that they said would have convinced an undecided person to support one side over the other. If McCain should win, though, I’m checking the real estate ads in BA.

By: colleen

colleen — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:32:03 +0000

yes, I mean I did not understand where either was going with this whole thing. I am an Obama supporter for obvious reasons and already received and cast my absentee ballot but man, that debate was frustrating..I felt they were both so Weak! can’t wait to see the upcoming debate and well the Palin/Biden debate – Ni hablar…
lets hope for the best…Overall, I think this whole Economic crisis situation generated a lot of expectations but also – foreign policy… PLEAAASSEE..USA needs to grow from the inside- out..we are focusing too much abroad and as we saw in Roma— well, that should speak for itself – haven’t we learned anything from History 101?
CHAO/CIAO/BYE
Colleen

By: Still Life in Buenos Aires

Still Life in Buenos Aires — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:40:32 +0000

So true. Talk about both candidates playing it safe.

By: dan

dan — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:17:01 +0000

Distillations Я Us

😉

Just for the hell of it, I threw this one onto Digg in the political opinion category – let’s see where it gets to (which is a subtle way of saying – go Digg It!)

By: Robert Evans

Robert Evans — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:47:26 +0000

Could not agree more. Boring.

I wish we were more like the British in this respect.

By: Stephen Suber

Stephen Suber — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:06:53 +0000

Your analysis is brilliant, and right on target. Neither of these guys said anything worthy of a real debate. The entire exercise was built around sound byte opportunities. And both candidates showed that their handlers got them sort of prepared for this one. Sort of.

Sad to say, the choice is between Tweedle (D) and Tweedle Dumb.

Dumb probably wins.