There are many characteristics that we should seek in selecting our President. These include shared values on important policy issues, integrity, decisiveness, the willingness and ability to lead, and skill in managing a strong supporting cast. Some would add many other personal attributes and specific policy preferences.
Here are some things that might not […]

The punditry declares victory for debaters who look and sound good. They especially like it if someone comes up with a clever comment or response. This has little to do with Presidential qualifications, but it makes for a nice story.
Meanwhile, the debaters cite various facts and statistics to support positions. There are […]

Seriously, a candidate needs endorsements and $$ in order to win, and just how much will be rolling in at a debate?
Rudy Giuliani was not the only republican candidate to skip the Morgan State debate hosted by PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley . Other no-shows were Fred, Mitt, and John McCain also thwarted by […]

The first question in tonight’s Democratic debate invited the candidates to address an important issue: Withdrawing troops from Iraq. Tim Russert asked each candidate, starting with Obama and Clinton, whether they would assure that all troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by 2013, the end of their first term. Russert followed up […]

A featured media clip on MySpace video was this rather funny satire of debates. Their claim was that so often the candidate will talk and talk and talk, but really say nothing. Enjoy this video, I know I chuckled a bit.
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Candidate Mashup (debate) to be sponsored by Slate.com along with Yahoo and the Huffington Post. All 8 candidates will sit for a 15 min. interview with Charlie Rose. Three questions will be asked. You can send yours in text, audio or video to: [email protected]. Be there or be square. Save […]

With all the recent talk about the sub prime mortgage crisis, and The Fed’s response, it provides the presidential candidates an interesting situation, in which to highlight their economic policy and try to downplay their opponents’. This can be very helpful for investors, as a prediction of how the market will do in general.
At the […]

The Democrats have managed to get through a YouTube debate, so why shouldn’t the Republicans? As John Fout said in his article on TheStreet.com Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have already said that the wouldn’t be attending a CNN/YouTube debate due to scheduling conflicts. Fout asks “I don’t understand why the GOP candidates wouldn’t attend. […]

Well, people have been calling this the “YouTube Election” for a while, but now with the CNN/YouTube debate this seems to take a new meaning. The campaigns really are run by the internet now, and it has been proven with this new and unfortunately unsuccessful debate style. You can read all about the flaws of […]

CNN in correlation with YouTube put together one of the most diabolically bad formats for a debate that we have seen in our lives. Off the bat, the YouTube debate was a terrible idea because it uses YouTube, a video uploading site notorious for its terrible image and sound quality. Almost all the submitted videos […]