It was the candidates' fault after all.
The Des Moines Register, which staged yesterday's disastrously boring Republican debate and whose editor, Carolyn Washburn, moderated it alone, says the candidates are to blame.
In an editorial the Register complains that "many of the candidates' answers were only somewhat satisfying."
Hmmm. If only someone could do something about that. Maybe someone with a forum, like a debate, in which all of the candidates feel compelled to appear. And to have to answer questions from a hard-hitting moderator on national television. Oh, wait.
— Stephen Dinan, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (2)
Let's have a do-over debate, this time without Iowa newspapers involved in any way.
Posted by Jay | December 14, 2007 3:37 PM
There are plenty of problems the next president will face like: China with her arms and military build-up;Putin becoming more old Russia with its
KGB and upset over some of the former Russian countries that are "out of his reach"; Isreal/Palestine problems; the never ending
terrorism that will plague us for years; and how about the US economy? how about that three-countries-in-one(Mexico, Canada and the US) that
Bush is pushing?
We never hear any candidate expressing an opinion
on these and more problems.
Being president of the US is a very taxing job,
yes, job and it would be beneficial to know where they stand on some of these issues rather than bicker back and forth with each other on meaningless things. Why can't the US elections show more than 50% of the voting population get
out and vote? It is the messages the candidates are sending forth-they don't know much about anything.
Posted by Helen Laverdure | December 16, 2007 8:08 PM