Debate this.

I started to watch the debates last night and I just had to turn it off.

Really.

Listening to the news today, one question came to mind immediately... when did not screwing up become a measure of success?

To hear all the analysis of the debate, someone (I’m not going to say who) didn’t screw up, didn’t make an obvious gaffe and didn’t do anything that would prove detrimental to the campaign over the long haul but, how is this a victory?

Is this emblematic of the watering down of the standards we have for our leaders?

The debates are fine and everything but, they are so tightly choreographed as to be almost useless to a lot of the American electorate. Besides, who are the debates really for?

If you’ve already made up your mind about who you are going to vote for, is anything that happens during the debate really going to sway you away from the candidate you’ve chosen?

Debates I imagine are for that vast pool of undecided voters. They’re for them and for the rest of us they are akin to some kind of sporting event (this is proved by the existence of the Palin Bingo card). (1448 Views pre transfer)