The Crimson Blog » McCain http://www.thecrimsonblog.com Views and Social Commentary about News of the Day, Society, and Technology Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:15:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gordon and the Contestants http://www.thecrimsonblog.com/gordon-and-the-contestants/ http://www.thecrimsonblog.com/gordon-and-the-contestants/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:29:05 +0000 Rick http://www.thecrimsonblog.com/?p=7 Yesterday, during a visit to Washington, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met separately with each of the U.S. Presidential Candidates, Senator John McCain, Senator Hillary Clinton, and Senator Barack Obama.

Was it just me, or did it look like a astonishingly bizarre beauty pageant, with each of the candidates seeking to look the most Presidential?

In the end, it was actually Gordon Brown who appeared the most Presidential.

Sigh.

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It wasn’t really a debate between Democratic Candidates, as much as it was a littany of “gotcha” moments between moderators and Candidates.

Any real substantive issue was not covered until well into the 1st hour of the program.  Instead, the moderators seemed hell bent on examining every gaffe, mis-statement, controversy thus far in the campaign season.

This is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.  This is a media issue.  It was a bad night for American Journalism, and this is definitely not the kind of debate I want to see in the General Election.

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but I for one, am interested in the issues of the day, and how they impact our Country.

Or maybe I’ve just found myself in some weird parallel universe.

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