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- _salisae_0
tommyo,
call me what you will but i am an Obama supporter. i believe him and i trust him. i understand your gripes but i don't share that sentiment.
and ukit makes a great point .. "If these kinds of people were serious candidates, you would see them have to grapple with the same tough choices as everyone else."
- hallelujah0
I believe that Obama is a good man, and more than that, a wise great leader under impossible circumstances if this country has the rare good sense to elect him
- ukit0
- sublocked0
The presidential debate format is a fucking scam.
http://www.opendebates.org/theis…
The Presidential debates -- the single most important electoral event in the process of selecting a President -- should provide voters with an opportunity to see the popular candidates discussing important issues in an unscripted manner. But the Presidential debates fail to do so, because the major party candidates secretly control them.
Presidential debates were run by the civic-minded and non-partisan League of Women Voters until 1988, when the national Republican and Democratic parties seized control of the debates by establishing the bi-partisan, corporate-sponsored Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Posing as a nonpartisan institution committed to voter education, the CPD has continually and deceptively run the debates in the interest of the national Republican and Democratic parties, not the American people.Every four years, negotiators for the Republican and Democratic nominees secretly draft debate contracts called Memoranda of Understanding that dictate precisely how the debates will be structured; co-chaired by the former heads of the Republican and Democratic parties, the CPD obediently implements the contracts, shielding the major party candidates from public criticism.
Such deceptive major party control severely harms our democracy. Candidates that voters want to see are often excluded; issues the American people want to hear about are often ignored; the debates have been turned into a series of glorified bipartisan news conferences, in which the candidates exchange memorized soundbites; and debate viewership has generally dropped, with twenty-five million fewer people watching the 2000 presidential debates than watching the 1992 presidential debates. Walter Cronkite called CPD-sponsored presidential debates an “unconscionable fraud.”
Open Debates has helped establish a truly nonpartisan Citizens' Debate Commission comprised of national civic leaders to sponsor presidential debates that are rigorous, fair, and inclusive of important issues and popular candidates. The higher values of democracy and voter education will be restored to the presidential debates by the Citizens' Debate Commission.
- robotron3k0
and away we go.....
- ukit0
Americans are angry! They are fucking pissed!
- SteveJobs0
where's the live chatty?
- DrBombay0
this american is worried.
- DrBombay0
tbo, make wit the fucking chat thing plz
- robotron3k0
mccain's got charcoal on his eyebrows...
- robotron3k0
put the homos first!?
- SteveJobs0
mccain talks like his jaw's wired shut.
- he's got a pouch in his cheek filled with jellybeans...robotron3k
- haha, or maybe worthers originals... more his style..SteveJobs
- robotron3k0
he's blinking at me...
- over 200 fucking times at leastbulletfactory
- just in that closing remark i meanbulletfactory
- ukit0
Joe the Plumber? Thomas the Tank Engine?
- akiersky0
joe the plumber for president!
- DrBombay0
Sam the Butcher
- monkeyshine0
blah blah blah blah. across the board spending freeze. he just stole Obama's scalpal line.
- monkeyshine0
Oh no..."I know how" is a phrase in my drinking game. Where's my aspirin?
