Best Tool For the Job » Politics http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog Software, Mac and other Goodness Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:00:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The First Presidential Debate http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog/archives/2004/10/01/the-first-presidential-debate/ http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog/archives/2004/10/01/the-first-presidential-debate/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:06:59 +0000 Marcus http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog/index.php/the-first-presidential-debate/ I’m not going to comment much on this, but a couple things I noticed at the debate last night.

1. Why can’t they talk to each other? What I saw was no debate, it was just two guys answering questions.

2. Why can’t the audience applaud? What’s the point of even having a live audience if they’re commanded to stay absolutely quiet. I can see limiting applause to a few seconds but silencing them?

3. Why is there a chosen topic that they can’t stray from? After 30 minutes of hearing about Iraq I was ready to move on to other topics. I’m aware that other things will be discussed in future debates, but if they know ahead of time exactly what to prepare for, then their answers aren’t based on what they already know, they’re based on scripted answers they prepared for in the days before the debate. That’s not real life and it’s not how things will be when one of them is elected to president.

Personally, I’d like to see a true debate.

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