Put Elizabeth in the debate and I will watch it.
Good for him. The media has no right to decide who to include and who to exclude. I surely wish the candidates included would say thanks, but no thanks until everyone is invited.
ET is wrong. ABC owns the microphones, they get to decide who will show up. ET should shut up or buy ad time.
Put Elizabeth in the debate and I will watch it.
Hey everybody! I am a short, left-wing, wacko kook who believes in UFOs, Marxism, and the Easter Bunny. But forget about all that. Check out my hot, red headed, British young wife here holding my sign!
This is the second time this week I agreed with Kucinich. Very scary.
He refused to sign a loyalty agreement in Texas stating that he swears allegiance to the Dem nominee just to be on the ballot in Texas.
I haven’t paid that much attention to how these things were arranged in the past, but should the Democrat Party and the Republican Party have some say in which candidates should participate in the debates? I.e., the DNC and the RNC?
The Republicans have been particularly dismal in the way they have let the TV people run all over them, without any kind of consequences.
I remember a day, way way in the past, when the League of Women’s Voters ran these debates, and did so as honest and neutral umpires. Of course now that would be ludicrous.
The problem is, there should be some sort of grownups in charge, to decide when the debates should be narrowed down. And there is no one in sight to do it.
I suppose you can say that the media have a right to do whatever they like, and that the two parties have a right not to agree with decisions they consider unfair. And the candidates have a right not to work with a network they consider unfair—as, indeed, the Democrats agreed to do with Fox. But the whole process is breaking down, and you can’t trust any of the parties to be fair or decent, because those concepts seem to have gone out the window.
I'd love to see Hillary brought to a studio in handcuffs and FORCED to answer questions based on "equal time" rules.
Everything I need to know about Ron Paul supporters I read on two bumper stickers on the same car.
First bumper sticker...”PSYCHIATRY KILLS!!!”
Second bumper sticker, next to the first....”Ron Paul for President.”
ABC is on pretty safe ground, as they can argue that the debate is a “bona-fide news event,” separate from their coverage.
Fox News is not a broadcast network, so they don’t have to follow equal time rules, as far as I know.
In a way, I hope he succedes...but for my reasons not his. Marvin the Martian, and Gravel, only dilute the Dems push by highlighting theit patys weaknesses, while Hunter, will only bring foeward the best of the consertvate hopes and ideals.
The irony in all of this is that now all of the excluded Presidential candidates are getting more attention from being excluded from the debates! They truly wouldn’t be getting this much present attention if they were included in the debates!
Kucinich is a whacko, but he’s right on this.
Besides, I am from the time when cartoons were played before the movie at the theaters...I missed them then, I will miss them now. ;>)
I emailed both.
Paul and Hunter should be included. Paul meets the Fox debate polling criteria, and Hunter is one of the best conservatives in the race.
I agree with Kooch on this one.....but only because the media is running our nation's presidential elections now, and picking and choosing who shall be in or out of the debates is just another part of its Orwellian control of our political system and information.
Leni
Go get ‘em, Dennis!
Sad news for Hunter, my favorite candidate. But I guess that’s just how it goes. They set out these rules ahead of time.
ABC’s exclusion of Kucinich, Hunter and Gravel is the Fairness Doctrine in reverse.
All legitimate, filed candidates deserve to be heard in debates. There is way too much manipulation going on with the media and people who want to influence an election to deny people the opportunity to hear from all the candidates. The greatest injustice has been done against Duncan Hunter.