Why didn't the frontrunners want to talk about Education?

[jillan]

I remember in the spring, they didn't show up to talk about Iraq either:shrug:

A funny thing happened last week in Reno...there was a party (a candidates' forum, actually), and (almost) nobody came. The University of Nevada, Reno and the Brookings Institute hosted a forum on national education policy for the Democratic candidates "designed to focus the presidential debate on substantive issues rather than horse-race politics." Actually, they initially invited the four front-runners, but after only Bill Richardson accepted, the organizers invited Joe Biden, and he also came.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debbie-seltzer/education-debate-and-de_b_62404.html

[demommom]

1. Serves the sponsors right for buying in to that front runner thing.

Sorry,but that is how I feel.

[jillan]

2. Especially since Obama doesn't do debates anymore.

And the fact the Biden - someone who lives with the problems of our education system on a daily basis - was an afterthought?!

[murbley40]

3. kick

:kick: