Is there any good or decent reason why, especially during times of financial hardships and security perils, these men need to spend a half-billion dollars spreading lies and misinformation about one another?
It’s obscene.
It’s been suggested countless times. Why not demand at least a monthly forum for debate, provided free of charge to the candidates, accessible over the major network, cable and radio stations?
Since it will never be considered I’ll be even more preposterous.
Involve the electorate. What about giving priority to questions accompanied with a receipt of even a nominal contribution to a charity that actually does someone good or promotes democracy in some way, for instance, buying the equipment that would provide a paper trail on electronic voting machines since this gov’t can’t seem to find money for them. We all know that our ‘leaders’ are being chosen by an elite few and ‘campaign reform’ is nothing but a challenge the status quo has little difficulty circumventing. But why do we tolerate it?
The debates could be held in different cities or towns each time. Imagine what that would do for the local tourist industries. If the cost of security makes this impossible so be it; hole them up in Cheney’s fortified bunker and air the debates from it. Dick could use that time to check-up on Halliburton’s offshore accounts and count his profits.
That years into this war on terror/blood for oil campaign the presidential candidates are significantly less able to freely roam this country should be reason enough to tell them all to take a hike. Exponentially the priorities of these candidates and their employees are so dangerously perverted they threaten to seriously, perhaps irreparably, undermine what little democracy we have left.
Richard Reeves observes:
Reeves, and others, are speculating that months of trash talk will likely lead to low voter turnouts.
Somehow I don’t expect much dissent from an American public weaned on crass rhetoric and polluted streams, beaten into complacency by well-heeled thugs, overmedicated to incapacitation behind the wheel of democracy, dozily wondering if they still are, too addicted to brave a day without the drugs. As I said, obscene.