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Dodd Gives Question To GOP YouTube Debate
The upcoming CNN/YouTube Republican debate has received a submission from a certain Democratic voter. None other than presidential candidate Chris Dodd is pitching a question about whether the GOP candidates think Americans have to give up their Constitutional rights in order to be safe:
A Facebook group has started up, petitioning CNN to accept this questions and other cross-candidate ones like it.
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Bravo, Senator Dodd!
November 26, 2007 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Somehow I don't think this will make the cut.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Ben Franklin, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, Tue, Nov 11, 1755.
November 26, 2007 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe it won't make the cut, but it's a great idea. It makes me wish the candidates did have cross-party debates before the primaries. It's exhausting to watch Clinton and Obama harangue each other; the real question is how they (or anyone--like Dodd) stack up against their real opponents.
November 26, 2007 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
This I find really awesome. We need more direct communication between candidates and while this is kind of indirect direct communication, it's a step in the right direction. The heavily moderated pseudo-Lincoln-Douglas style just doesn't cut it for me at all. I remember watching parts of the French presidential "debates" during their campaign earlier this year and it was quite refreshing. It was a conversation that occasionally became heated argument. All I could think was, "I want that."
Anyway, points to Dodd for doing this. He was my vote until Obama was officially in. Pity this isn't 2004 again. I think he would've run beautifully against Kerry and Edwards and would've been an excellent opponent to Bush as well.
November 26, 2007 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly.
November 26, 2007 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is too good not to pick.
November 26, 2007 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
A Facebook group has started up, petitioning CNN to accept this questions and other cross-candidate ones like it.
You need petitions to get basic questions asked now? Whats next hungerstrikes for follow up questions?
November 26, 2007 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
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November 26, 2007 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink