I could've sworn that Energy, Environment, & Education...

[rucky]

were Domestic issues that should've been discussed in last night's domestic debate.

Instead we get more Gays, Guns & God.

Whose questions were those?

[NAO]

1. Schieffer Asked Stupid, Irrelevant Questions

There were no questions on Environment? No questions on corporate maleficence?

The first question in the domestic policy debate was about foreign policy.

Any the questions about faith? Any legitimate Supreme Court would have struck down those questions based on the fact that any answer provided violates the establishment clause. Those questions were sheer pandering to religious zealots who want to establish a theocracy, and not politically relevant.

And gays? Why not ask about blacks and Jews too? Should they be allowed to marry? Are they "born" that way? That question was pure pandering to bigotry, and not politically relevant.

Notice that Bush did not answer the Roe v Wade question. He just dodged it. I hope that cost him votes among his rabid religious base.

And the guns question. Again Bush blew the handling of his own wedge issue. Which does not mean it, or any of these other irrelevant questions had any place being asked in a formal presidential debate.

[TheFarseer]

2. YES!!!

That's what I was screaming right after the debate. Education was only briefly touched on. There was no official question about it. I want to say the same about the environment. I was aphauled that energy was not even mentioned once in the debate. Instead we get, which one of you loves your family more? Are gay people born that way? More stem cell questions and abortion questions(which isn't so bad except that we basically know where everyone stands on that so waste of time in a debate) I expected more from Bob Scheifer.

on edit - the question about racism really burned me up and I know people on here might jump on me a little but it's not 1956. Everyone knows racism is bad. What did you really expect the candidates to say? That question was a complete waste of time.