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November 29, 2007
Presidential Debate
by Jack Lee
The question has been raised in a number of media-talk forums, is necessary to have a live audience in presidential debates? The audience seems to be made up single issue zealots, hyper-partisan hacks and mouth breathers and they boo and cheer according to their narrow and often irrelevant personal interests. Do we really need that, or are the American people sophisticated enough to get beyond the "canned laughter" mentality that tells us the speaker just said something funny?
Another thing that struck me odd was having CNN and MSNBC moderate the event, where's FOX? Obviously CNN and MSNBC wasn't up to the job or they would have asked more relevant questions geared to real conservative concerns like nukes in Iran, not just the fantasized notions about the issues that could only come from people living 24/7 on the left. I could care less about the "Confederate flag" flying in Slippryrock! I want to know what we will do about nukes in Iran or attacking Al Qaeda inside Pakistan.
From the Telegraph in the UK...
Huckabee won
"Bad-tempered slights and bickering over claim and counter-claim marked the latest Republican debate this morning, prompting an ordained minister to intervene and diffuse the situation with his folksy humour.
The minister, a Baptist, was Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and the new surprise front-runner in the first-voting state of Iowa.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has shaken up the Republican race Rudy Giuliani, the national front-runner, and Mitt Romney, who had been leading in Iowa months before the under-funded Mr Huckabee crept up and overtook him, immediately went for each other's jugulars."
"....In a clash over illegal immigration, Mr Giuliani responded angrily to Mr Romney's accusation that New York had been a "sanctuary city" for illegal aliens.
Mr Giuliani shot back that the former Massachusetts governor's home had been a "sanctuary mansion", because a newspaper had revealed that illegal Guatemalans had once tended his lawn."
Posted by Post Scripts at November 29, 2007 08:44 AM