The liberal blogosphere is lit up tonight, in reaction to what’s basically being called ABC’s substance-free, right-wing-framed debate. See here, here, here, here, and the 6404 comments and growing at ABC’s web site, here.
The problem with many of those questions, I think, was that they’re not anything that Democratic voters care about. If “flag pins” were important, Obama wouldn’t be leading the race right now.
It was something like an hour before they got to a policy question.
Hello Ben - You see no problem with the “questions”? They were asked about lapel pins and pastors. But NONE of the following topics were mentioned:
The financial crisis
The collapse of housing values in the US and around the world
Afghanistan
Health care
Torture
The declining value of the US Dollar
Education
Trade
Pakistan
Energy
Immigration
The decline of American manufacturing
The Supreme Court
The burgeoning world food crisis.
Global warming
China
The attacks on organized labor and the working class
Terrorism and al Qaeda
Civil liberties and constraints on government surveillance
But I guess you think that kind of stuff is boring.
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Carlo Scannella
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Virtual Memory... -- presented at the Critical Themes conference, April 2008, The New School, (paper to follow)
Virtual Memory: The Blog as Technological Prosthetic -- presented at the 2008 Interdisciplinary Memory Conference, February 2008, New School for Social Research
The Emergence of the Political Blogospheric Field -- presented at the Critical Themes conference, April 2007, The New School (pdf)
3 responses so far ↓
Ben Keeler // April 17, 2008 at 6:37 am
I didnt see a problem with the questions. Better than the usual 45 min droning on about their health care plans.
Carlo Scannella // April 17, 2008 at 11:43 am
The problem with many of those questions, I think, was that they’re not anything that Democratic voters care about. If “flag pins” were important, Obama wouldn’t be leading the race right now.
It was something like an hour before they got to a policy question.
nobody // April 17, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Hello Ben - You see no problem with the “questions”? They were asked about lapel pins and pastors. But NONE of the following topics were mentioned:
The financial crisis
The collapse of housing values in the US and around the world
Afghanistan
Health care
Torture
The declining value of the US Dollar
Education
Trade
Pakistan
Energy
Immigration
The decline of American manufacturing
The Supreme Court
The burgeoning world food crisis.
Global warming
China
The attacks on organized labor and the working class
Terrorism and al Qaeda
Civil liberties and constraints on government surveillance
But I guess you think that kind of stuff is boring.
Leave a Comment