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patrioticintellect Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 07:49 AM
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What's all the fuss about the ABC debate?
I woke up this morning to a storm of angry Americans who were upset over the way ABC ran a debate in Pennsylvania last night. I did not know there was going to be a debate. I thought the Democrats were done debating. And don’t you have to have something to debate about in order to have a debate?

Who are we kidding ourselves? There wasn’t going to be a debate. These corporate media debates don’t raise any issues.

Is our thinking so short term that we’ve forgotten how in January we were all up in arms about Kucinich being kept out of the debates? And then months before that, remember when many of us were upset about Mike Gravel being kept out of the debate after we heard him challenge Hillary on Iran in a previous one?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_kevin_go_080417_what_s_all_the_fuss_.htm">What's All the Fuss About the ABC Debate?
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 07:50 AM
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1. Gravel is no longer running as a Democrat and ABC is only nominally a
news agency.


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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 07:52 AM
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2. If you'd seen it, you would know
It was the most obvious, blatant, attack... on both candidates...I've ever witnessed by the media.

It was very evident, for whatever reasons, the aim by ABC was to tear them both down.
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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 07:54 AM
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3. Opportunity to whine and snivel
and play sore winner.
Very tiresome.
Anybody would think Obama was an unprepared imperial underpuppy who was about to be seen without his nice suit.
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MethuenProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 07:55 AM
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4. ABC didn't offer BO a pillow for his feet and a neck rub - so the debate was "unfair"
Crybabies.
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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 07:57 AM
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5. I Learned Alot From The Debate
It's not easy being an intrepid journalist. And yet Charlie and George seem like they are hardly working at all.
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DAGDA56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 08:01 AM
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6. Your headline, and entire article, are cut and paste...
...I appreciate your including the link, but would also like to hear your own opinion...thanks
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patrioticintellect Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-19-08 12:36 AM
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7. That was my own opinion
What do you think?
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