I won't be watching the debates - I'll let someone from the
news (or Jon Stewart) tell me what was said.
Personally, I've never heard anything substantive come out of
a presidential debate. To me, they are
just opportunities for one candidate to make a strategically placed quip at the
other candidate's expense. Meanwhile (it
seems to me), the television and studio audiences are sitting back, waiting
with baited breath, for someone to make a mistake, get a fact wrong, or forget
something.
Is this how we would expect our President to govern? Is real
diplomacy conducted under studio lights, and in sound bites? Or, as I believe,
are solutions hammered out in meeting rooms, over time and with painstaking detail?
It is said that races have been won and lost during debates (remember Nixon's sweaty upper lip?). Not everyone agrees: Mike Donning of Bloomberg News, for instance.
Regardless - to me, political debates are uncomfortable,
mean spirited wastes of time. I'll just
let someone else tell me what happened.
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