Presidential Debates Are They Too Large to Be Useful

Cold weather, lousy weather, days when outdoor exercise isn't going to happen, have you had some of those lately. Bored don't want to watch T.V., but don't want to do much else type of days? The ones where you feel "antsy," but bowling's out of the question. Here is something for you to get into that don't cost a lot and, it might even become something you like. So far, do you have a clue where this is heading? Isn't being curious wonderful? Believe it. Those two sentences relate, read on...

With eight men on stage and no women, the Republicans call it a debate, just like the Democrats, who had a woman to flavor the proceedings; both parties call these two-minute drills, debates. Not even close, remember the debate class you took in speech, or, heard about from the members who were being drilled, two minutes indeed. It has become an event of jostling for position with the best one-liner, and, that's how we're going to be exposed; to a leader, who has their finger on the button? What a process.

Beyond curiosity about all this is how the talking heads respond to the situation, in an earnest effort O'Reily, of the "no spin zone," ilk, tried to have an earnest discussion on the many quips of the so-called debate. The clip du-jour was a brief respite when Mayor Giuliani explained to Rep. Paul that his interpretation of the 9/11 disaster being caused by our continued bombing of their region, simply wouldn't fit. What the N.Y. Times transcript of the debate did bring out was the enormous jumps from subject to subject that the listening audience has to make.

The choice which is before us in the upcoming election is a classic one, it involves the decisions we will expect the executive branch to make on taxation, it involves the decisions we will expect the executive branch to make on education, and it will likely involve some form of reformed thought about Social Security. The war is a hotly debated item, many are saying we should pull out, but some stronger voices within the Republican and Democratic aisles are proclaiming that to jettison the effort at this point would be a disaster to the region. We don't really know, but in our guts as people who hear a lot about this situation, we have some concept of how we feel. The trouble with that decision, as with the debate is, it needs to be based on something more substantial than how we feel.

There are more scheduled get togethers, and the season for choosing is going to be long, but something that is rustling in the wind of numeric overindulgence suggests that we're in for a real barn burner come November, what do you think? There at that point is the item you can write about, what you think, and, if you take a clue from this writing, your writing doesn't have to be "all that good", just consistent, try to research the matter and gain some depth for your readers. Do your very best to make your article worthy of their time to read it, and, make sure what you're saying merits a reader.