Comments | dredpiraterober: debates

dredpiraterober

debates

Oct 02, 2008 22:29

presidential and or vice presidential debates make me mad. They don't answer be questions and they quote all these numbers and don't cite sources. Like Obama keeps quoting this number of 700 billion dollars to foreign countries (he says many of them do not like us). No source. It also happens to be untrue. 600 billion is more like it, and 1/3 comes ( Read more... )

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matthewljacobs October 3 2008, 02:46:15 UTC

presidential and or vice presidential debates make me mad.

Then don't watch them? There's like 500 other TV channels and billions of websites to read instead.

nytesenvy October 3 2008, 03:04:53 UTC

it's our duty as americans to be as informed as possible and then vote - so despite anger we should watch them. at least then we know a little better what we're getting in bed with

dredpiraterober October 3 2008, 13:42:44 UTC

I agree that it is our duty to be informed, but I don't think the debates help us with that. In fast, I think it is just the same party line they give in their attack ads.

dredpiraterober October 3 2008, 13:42:06 UTC

I don't think I will be watching the rest of them this year.

nytesenvy October 3 2008, 03:06:17 UTC

i agree that i wish they cited their sources instead of just throwing numbers around, but its hard to do in a debate format. maybe they should provide a list of checked facts and their sources for anything they site on their website or something for us voters to check up on if we feel the need to. it's easy to screw up numbers when in an argument like that and i, for one, would like clean facts from both sides

dredpiraterober October 3 2008, 13:43:42 UTC

Hard to do in a debate forum? If I remember correctly, in a high school debate, if you give a stat, or any kind of number, you need to have a source to back it up. Am I not remembering correctly?

nytesenvy October 3 2008, 14:32:41 UTC

when you only have 90 seconds, how fast would you have to be talking to spit out the factoid and then the citation?

ladyelaine23 October 3 2008, 14:52:24 UTC

I agree. Debates are agitating, because you don't learn anything new about either candidate. It's just a back and forth "he said she said" type thing. I agree with Jill, it is our duty to be informed, but debates are hardly informational. Especially when the media likens them to celebrity boxing. Gaah. So yeah, I'm with you.