Posted in Citizen Journalism, Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[This posting was written during our Democrat Presidential Forum Watch Party on June 28, but was never published. It is important to publish even at this late date because these are the concerns of citizens who gathered to hear what the Democrat Presidential candidates had to say about these concerns.]
On the topic of education, [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events on July 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m way behind on getting out my thank you notices to all of the people who helped make the Democrat All-American Presidential Watch Party at the LBJ and Carver libraries successful. (A trip to Sausalito, CA to work on a statewide plan to bring high speed fiber access to every public library intervened. Ironically, I [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
I think Edwards came off best. It’s a shame no one takes Kucinich seriously. And Gravel needs to be quiet. I understand that he needs to get his name out there, but if you are going to attack your opponent at least have something of substance to say afterwards.
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Tavis Smiley, how much am I enjoying a moderator that takes no slack whatsoever! I liked the 1 minute format though I think maybe the 30 second is a bit too hard. I liked the variety I was hearing during the 1 min. Especially when the candidates were building on each other.
I [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Sitting here in this building dedicated to Lyndon Baines Johnson who did so much to address poverty and education and issues of class, I am struck by how much we still have to do to realize the dream of a “Great Society.” The Covenant with Black America – or any social change that we strive to make – will only [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on June 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Can Gravel answer a question without first criticizing someone? My money says no. And as far as abolishing the income tax for a consumption tax is concerned, is it just me or would that aggravate the situation? If there is a poor family who spends every cent they earn, living paycheck-to-paycheck, wouldn’t [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
The group moves closer to the pull down projector screen to better hear the candidates and remain silently rapt as the candidates offer up talking points and sound bites. A few laughs or an occasional cheer at some well made point are all that permeates the silence. Gravel manages to get the most response with [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m not sure why, on the topic of HIV/AIDS, no one talked about comprehensive sex education. For me, accesability to comprehensive sex eduaction is one of the biggest factors in the prevention of STDs. Why no one touched abstience-only education is confusing to me.
And again, what is Gravel talking about? How did [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Evaluation, Get Involved, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate, social networking on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It would be interesting if they said something we hadn’t heard. Barack makes a joke about “No Child Left Behind” and talks about the money left behind but doesn’t get a big response here. Bonnie observes that most of the people here are taking it all blandly and no one is getting up [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Gov. Richardson’s line that ‘people don’t ask how we are going to get the money for the war’ referencing education spending was the best applause line of the night so far from here. I don’t understand why Democrats don’t hit on points like this more outside of Presidental Forums. I really think this [...]
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