NewsCloud.com Debate News http://www.newscloud.com/section/debate Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:27:45 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us Greg Mitchell: A 'Terrible' Debate Performance By Brokaw and Organizers http://www.newscloud.com/read/Greg_Mitchell_A_Terrible_Debate_Performance_By_Brokaw_and_Organizers Who picked the questions from the, we were told, six million sent in online plus the dozens from the people in the hall? The first half was fine but then why go into the same foreign policy questions raised two weeks ago -- knowing they were certain to draw the very same, almost word for word responses? After kicking off the debate by saying we were in the worst economic crisis in 80 years?

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What many appeared to be most miffed about was the unusual barrage of seemingly un-important salvos leveled by moderators Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos at Senator Barack Obama.

The truth is, voters should be upset, because if the moderators were looking to perform some sort of hit job on Senator Obama, they could have at least attempted to aim above the belt and attack issues of substance and relevance.

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