Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Once again the results of the presidential forum proved to me that the format is dead. I know you’ve heard this before, but I’m just tired of spending so much of my time for such little reward. If we insist on continuing this format with no time to really discuss major issues, and certainly no [...]
Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums, tagged LBJ Library, Presidential Forums, Tavis Smiley on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
These are loose quotes excerpted from the post Tavis Smiley All-American Presidential Forum debrief of participants at the Texas Forums Watch Party at the LBJ Library.
There is a great deal of frustration here because there is no dialgoue.
These are not even real debates. They are sound bite contests. None in the business graced it with [...]
Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
The problem that (as seems increasingly likely) will be the toughest, most immediate thing on the plate of the next president will be what to do about the war in Iraq. It wasn’t until over an hour into the debate that a single question about the war in Iraq was posed to the candidates. They each gave their take on it and everyone moved [...]
Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
The pre-debate discussion and beginning of the debate itself contained an almost palpable sense of disappointment and indignation surrounding the lack of attendance by many of the front-running Republican candidates. Tom Joyner opened the debate and was the first to refer to this lack with a joke that hit a bit too close to [...]
Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
And so the ones who are not there? Said they didn’t want to face a hostile crowd? We want cowards to lead us? Will they cower before a hostile al Qaeda? What a hoot. Love those empty podiums.
Go, Huckabee! Embarrassment is a great, if almost soft, word.
Brownback, uses disgrace. Excellent. Against narrowness! Wow! A [...]
Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Has integration outlived its purpose?
Tancredo: it’s not just about giving a black child the opportunity to sit next to a white child. It’s about making sure that they both have the same quality of teacher. In Texas, children in poorer schools that are largely minority are more likely to have teachers who are teaching out [...]
Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
RON PAUL just changed his stance! wow
Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums, tagged death penalty on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
OK, in keeping with my goal to find something to like in every candidate, I am bowled over - as are my fellow forum watchers here - by Ron Paul’s change of mind about the federal death penalty. He no longer supports the death penalty. Not only am I impressed by his answer because I [...]
Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What should we do about Darfur?
Ron Paul thinks we should ONLY focus on safety and security NOT the feel good stuff like ending genocide. What?
Seriously, I need a little feel good. I want a country that I feel good about. A country that has compassion, leadership, vision. What’s wrong with doing something that feels good!
We [...]
Posted in PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Almost all of these suggestions are good ones, but are much more about the what should happen…I long for the questioners to break in repeatedly with a simple “and how would you do that?” “how would you make that happen?”
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