Thursday, August 11, 2011

Do We the People Have To Do EVERYTHING??

Et tu, Fox News?  The questioning in tonight's Republican presidential candidate debate tonight was nothing more than pathetic.  Man for frustrating.  We are RACING towards $15 trillion in debt and we've got a moderator asking Michele Bachmann what she meant when she said she believes in submitting to her husband.  WTH???  This is stupid on a whole new level.  The very best thing that could happen right now is for We the People to moderate a debate.  Skip all the insiders and anchors and have ordinary citizens ask the questions.  Like someone said on Twitter tonight, the candidates weren't even asked if they support the Ryan Plan!  No less than 90% of this debate should have been focused on the economy and how these candidates compare and contrast with Barack Obama.  What was established beyond all reasonable doubt is that Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty don't care for each other.  I'm sure that will become a highly valuable item to note while we dig ourselves out of the massive hole we're in.  Thank God we found that out.  Let me be clear: I don't care what kind of pizza the candidates like and I don't care if they like each other.  Move on to the substantive things already!  I am not a fan of Newt, but he nailed it when he chewed Wallace's rear end over the questioning and the crowd was solidly behind him for doing it.  The people are always right.  Period.  We're going to have to do what we've already been doing and do all the work ourselves.  We'll have to pick through the pathetic showings like we saw tonight and garner the nuggets of information that will help us decide what candidate to get behind and then do all the rest of the homework all on our own.  Really, the Founders intended for us to run the whole blame show, anyway, so I suppose expecting help from anyone else is more than that for which we should hope.

This will not preclude me from watching the remaining debates because I want as much as I can get, but I just wish what the moderators were digging for was far more rich in meaningful information.

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