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Jill2008
2008 Debate Was A Joke!!!!!! I watched the Presidential debate and I was not impressed at all. They spent a whole hour asking questions about nonsense, that I was not interested in at all. I wanted to hear Obama and Clinton speak on real issue's, by the time they got to the real issues I was not interested. Charles Gibson did a horrible job. I don't care whether Obama wears a flag pin, nor do I care about what Dr. Reverend Jeremiah Wright said a month ago, also and Hillary's lies about Bosnia don't intrest me either. I wanted to know what these canidates are going to do for this economy, the war, education, gas prices, the violence in our city of Philadelphia, people losing their homes and jobs. That is my main concern. That debate was a waste of my time and I was very disappointed with it. I truly hope they don't let Charles Gibson do the November Presidential debates, because he doesn't know what questions to ask. Jill

A mutual butt kissing fest perhaps? Kind of like Al Gore on 60 Minutes?

Tell me, do these media people think we are stupid? Do they realize that we are perfectly capable of making up our own minds, and not dependant on their bias innuendo to make a choice?

LIBERAL MEDIA??????

Help me back up... i fainted....

the corporate owned media showed it was more interested in continuing the spectacle than helping citizens make an informed decision... and STILL we get these "liberal "media comments... its unbelievable!

Hmmm, lemme see, liberals really want to help the evil corporations by not asking the real questions of the candidates to they will begin true and open dialog of the real reasons for our foreign policy the past 100 years... for it was never about corporate interest... not for Dole or Chaquita Banana, Not for Enron, Exxon or Monsanto.. never for WalMart or Halliburton... not for wall street or the financeers of offshore tax shelters... not for GE- westinghouse maker of nuclear arms and military weapons...

Yes liberal minded talking heads still read the teleprompter... but its the corporation who writes the words. Propaganda 101... and apparently still as effective as when goebbels introduced it in 1934.

I agree, Pride, About the entertainment producers. And we KNOW They have a liberal mindset.

As far as liberal minded media folk asking liberal politicains tough Questions, Don't hold your breath.

"the if it burns or bleeds it leads mentality ". Well said. But, you forgot sex and scandal. :)

BTW, did you see algore on 60 minutes? Disgusting! And an insult to out intelligence!

The best indicator of who we really are is to get to know the company we keep. When a person wants no part of questions about who they associate with, look out! That's the first sign of a hidden agenda certain to be sprung on all after the election. People can SAY anything. What have they DONE and who do they know and hang out with? Hillary's and Obama's policies are nearly identical. It would serve ABC, or any other network for that matter, no good to ask questions about policies when they are identical. Not much of a debate!

The fact is, their are both full-blood socialists who seem to take most of their policies right out of a Karl Marx textbook. We fought for nearly half a century to stop communism and its philosophies from spreading all over the world. And now the people are willing to ELECT someone who wants more government controls over every citizen's life? I don't think so. What are you people thinking or smoking??

How many people even know about the true nature of health care. We say we don't want the government to run it and make the decisions, but the insurance company governments do it all the time. People actually die because of this. I am speaking from experience of someone that is close to me that was refused an operation, due to policy, and died. It is not something I am getting from ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX. It is the real deal. I have friends that live in Canada, and are happy with their health care. I do not want to have total control by the government, but the truth is they run medicare, and the program runs almost perfectly. The funding is not doing well due to demographic issues with the aging polulation, but the program is a model of effeciency. So the government can do things well. This scare tactic that the government is some evil person is rediculous, we are the government. They respond to what we tell them to do, if we do so in mass. When a person is a idiolog, anything that is different from the standard line is called bad. The Jessie Jackson's and Al Sharptons say that all the problems are based on white racism, and even when they see areas where that is not true they stick to thier idiology. The ultra conservatives, talk about the next boogie man, be that communism, then socialism, then liberalism, Islam, now black nationalism. Neither of these groups look into thier own participation in thier issues. Al and Jessie do not look at gangsta rap, conservatives do not look at racism, or even care. The only way that we are going to make our country better is by wo

I fear the the election is going to turn this country upside down. Obama will probably be the nominee. McCain is a good man, but I think he is stuck in a party which at this time has great issues, and don't think like he does. Regardles of what McCain tells those around him to do, they will turn this into the most racist election ever on both sides. Not the candidates, but those around them or that support them. They will bring up how McCain voted against policies to fight Aparthied, and the Martin Luther King Jr holiday. There will be people in the Republican party that he has some association with who have said racist things, and that will come up. The Rev. Wright issue will come up, and any quasi relationships Obama may have had. The media wil concentrate on that and not the real issues.

I agree with you. I am in business for myself, and I grew up in a lower middle class to poor home. I understand how business people think, and working people think. McCain is trying to get elected by going along with his party's view that the "market" will work things out. The "trickle down" theory, which suggests that if those who run the businesses do well then prospertiy will move downward with jobs, investment in more business, and higher stock prices which helps 401K's. The problem with this is it does not take into account greed. This is why there are Enron's etc. I liked John Edwards also, and like most people I am friends with do not base my view on race, but what they plan to do. Hillary is doing whatever she can to get elected because she believes she can do good for the country, but she is making herself look bad along the way. I personally think that they all should be in office together, then they cannot blame the other party when things are not going well. They would have to work together. Everytime I post this view people call me unrealistic. I guess they have lost hope.

If the Penna. Independents were allowed to vote in the primary for a President, Obama would have won.