July 31, 2007 7:49 AM PDT
Republicans' YouTube debate date in limbo
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debates=voters
voters=donaters....but they rather get cash from the intrest groups(and protect them over the people) than the people they are suppose to protect. Ron Paul has no problem joining the debate as he is the voice of the people and not corporations...and face it...McCain is just desperate for $$$
IF THEY DONT COME THEY DONT SUPPORT THE PEOPLE
so have the debate for the candidates that support the people
from the people, for the people, by the people(after all thats what the constitution says and they are supposed to uphold it and protect it just as our police officers do and military fight for! as them no shows say "they attack us for our freedoms", why do they want to take away our freedoms with things like the patriot act?
LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK! LET THE DEBATE GO ON AS PLANNED!!!!if they dont want to show then they dont want the support of the people
If you want to convince people that you are right, try getting the facts straight, especially those that any sixth grader should know.
"Of the people, by the people and for the people" are not words in the Constitution. They are words in a speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the memorial at Gettysburg.
I suppose, though, it's understandable. Your boy Ron Paul doesn't know the Constitution either. He has been known to state that federal income tax is unconstitutional. I guess he's never heard of the 16th amendment.
If you are representative of the voting populace, I mourn for the next election.
p.s. - what was the Dems excuse for running and hiding from a much more respected and balanced forum at Fox News? Sounds like they have are the ones with something to hide.
p.s.s. - Dems have taken in three times the dirty money of Republicans.
It would take few days to develop a web site where people can upload Videos and have others download it and 1 month max to add some more bells & whistles to it. Why give this free Advertising to Google?
Oh I forgot, CNN parent has Billions of Dollars in Google stock & vis versa.
2nd, why not ask questions from real people, rather than people selected by CNN editors to have their funny videos shown? I mean take the Video camera and just go down to Union station or walk down the street with it and in a real random way ask the questions from people, so that in as much as possible the questions are from real people.
You hit the nail on the head. By having thousands of videos to choose from, the CNN editors basically can just select the questions they want to ask from the very large pool of questions - given the volume, whatever they want to ask will probably have been submitted in some form or another.
This allows them to then ask only they questions they want to ask... while doing it under the guise of 'letting the people' get their say.
If anything, these debates do exactly the OPPOSITE of what a 'townhall' debate does. When you get X-thousand questions posted, the moderators of the debate can then pick and choose the questions they want to use... basically, they can pick the questions they would have asked anyways. Its a total gimmick, and yet people are stupid enough to act like the candidates are then 'talking to the people'.
In a real town hall debate, the questio pool is limited, and the moderator cant then use his power to 'editorialize' by picking specific questions.
The format was hugely successful and is here to stan and will only expand.
Get used to it!
What a farce US politics has become that they stand up and answer these fake questions posted by obviously coached people to ask these essentially fake questions.
These old school gus are on the way out. The GOP needs to be re-worked to serve the people's interest not just the rich and big money.
Also, it is so ironic that the party that screams the most against big government (GOP). Is in reality all about the BIGGEST government. And it does not function worth a ****.
And let us not for get the "Moral Majority" LOL. Yeah the GOP has the most moral polititians. What a freakin' joke. This GOP party (and many of its hig-profile supporters) is the party of hypocrits and perverts.
These nuts are also spending our nations future on foreign nation building, financing war, demanding and pledging MORE defence spending. America supports 700+ military bases. Not only that but the US also out spends the other world military powers (all lumped together) by many times. JUST LOOK AT ALL THAT MONEY THAT COULD BE USED IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!
Why are my fellow Americans the most terrified country/people in the world? We does our country NEED to dominate every single world crisis.
Things are very currently going wrong in America.
One more thing to the GOP. Since it is obvious that you are all on drugs (and perverted acts). Listen to the words of Nancy Reagan and learn to "Just say no."
You mean like Bill Clinton, Wilbur Mills,
Wayne Hays, John Young, Alan Howe, Fred Richmond,
Gerry Studds, Brock Adams, Jim Bates, Gus Savage,
Barney Frank, Charles Robb, Daniel Inouye,
Mel Reynolds, Gary Condit, Paul Patton, Bob Wise,
Jim McGreevey, Neil Goldschmidt, Mike Lowry ?
You mean perverts like those guys?
The repubs, with one exception, were too frightened to stand in front of the NAACP, and are terrified to answer to normal Americans.
That the dems avoided faux news is understandable. It would be like going to a debate hosted by the more honest then fox news, The Weekly World News(RIP).
Like the republicans they all need to answer questions from liberals, conservatives, and moderates.
That means not avoiding anything...
The article explains it all - the DNC mandated everyone show up, <i>or else</i>. The RNC isn't nearly as top-down about it, which means that individual candidates' schedules have to be considered.
The rest is mere hype and blinkered partisanship.
/P
is headlined "Republicans Shun Debate, and Right Cries Out." Of
course, Ms. Seelye and her editors couldn't be bothered to honestly
report that Ron Paul has agreed to participate in the YouTube
debate. Dr. Paul doesn't fit into the neat little box that the Times
has for Republicans.
so nothing surprises me from those 19th century zombies. They'd
ban electricity, if only they could run Cheney without batteries.