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The New Orleans Snub By One Presidential Candidate???
Just in: I was just tipped off that New Orleans (yes, the unfortunate home of Hurricane Katrina…) invited Senator McCain and Senator Obama to do a town hall meeting cp-sponsored by New Orleans and Google. As you might imagine, with all that has happened with Katrina, New Orleans is doing all that it can to attract Presidential candidates, commerce etc to help rebuild and revitalize the area.
Senator McCain accepted the New Orleans / Google town hall meeting 6 weeks ago…and Senator Obama? Well..he just answered yesterday and he declined ….the reason? his campaign says he will agree only to do the Commission on Presidential debates….
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The New Orleans Snub By One Presidential Candidate??? « GretaWire (http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/08/07/the-new-orleans-snub-by-one-presidential-candidate/ - broken link)
When you compare the candidates' records on Katrina, Obama certainly looks better than McCain.
However, Obama agreed to do what is traditionally done: three presidential debates, w/one veep.
Sept 26, Oct 2, Oct 7, Oct 15. link Moderating the presidential debates will be Jim Lehrer of Public Broadcasting's News Hour; Tom Brokaw of NBC, the former anchorman who has temporarily replaced the late Tim Russert on "Meet the Press," and Bob Schieffer of CBS's "Face the Nation." Gwen Ifill, also of PBS's "News Hour" was chosen to moderate the one vice presidential debate.
In accepting the four official Presidential Debate Commission scheduled debates - one of which would be for the vice-presidential nominees - the Barack Obama campaign said late Saturday that there probably isn't enough time for any additional debates. The late conventions, with the GOP meeting in St. Paul ending Sept. 4, three weeks before the first scheduled commission debate, makes it "likely" the four commission debates "will be the sole series of debates in the fall campaign," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe wrote.
Funny that "Greta" says McCain accepted the invitation six weeks ago. "There were reports McCain had accepted the proposed YouTube/Google debate for Sept. 18, although his staff refused to offer a confirmation. Obama's campaign had been saying only that it would consider the proposed New Orleans debate." - nola.com article
Here's an interesting article about the Commission on Presidential Debates vs. a citizen Q & A as the New Orleans-Google debate was envisioned.
For a more open process, the commission could post all citizen questions online; invite non-binding public voting, and publicly share its rationale for why it used certain questions. Debates are still the only time the public can directly assess both presidential candidates. More than 60 million people tuned in last cycle. Shifting more control from the media to the voters, for a single debate, would be a small step toward ensuring that the nation is actually part of the national conversation.
Very interesting. Fascinating to watch how the internet is changing things. I must admit I'm looking forward to the 9-26 debate.
...and thank god the debates aren't starting this week. Considering the penchant for questions on flag pins, you just know any questions this week would be about John Edwards. (I mean, it would be kinda fun to hear McCain address the issue of adulterous politicians but come on folks... the debates need to be about issues...)
Last edited by normie; 08-10-2008 at 06:30 AM..
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