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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Long, Eckersley agree to third debate
Seventh District Congressional candidates Billy Long and Scott Eckersley have agree to a third debate, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, in the Willard High School gymnasium, according to the Springfield News-Leader.
Wouldn't it be nice if the candidates had to answer question from the audience or other sources, not knowing what those questions might be. When the candidates get the questions in advance, it becomes just another media commercial.
11:49, your recommendation is the problem, not the solution. Do you think you could ask a question that would derive a specific answer? If yes, I stand corrected.
Pick twelve issues. Ask each candidate to give one specific solution to a problem on that issue.
He who delivers, wins.
I believe Long does not have the mental capacity to have one solution to one single problem in any issue.
to 11:49 I am not sure what you point is. I think that I could ask a question that would help me decide how I would want to vote. Are you saying you know how you are going to vote right now or our you willing to ask a question about any issue. I think if we have a voter that is informed and knows how they want to vote then we will be a better society. I personally would question the ability of Billy to serve our state with the respect it deserves, but I am willing to listen to a real question/answer encounter before I decide. How about you?
4:06, I agree with you but Mr. Long has been campaigning since January, 2009.
Can you remember one specific solution to one specific problem from all of this time? I can't.
Is that his fault? Perhaps not but I believe the media has a responsibility to take a leadership role in getting specific answers to specific questions, be it in a debate, forum or whatever. The media has failed us and unfortunately, none of the candidates have outline solutions to problems in any great detail.
Watch the 30-second commercials. Blunt, Long, Dixon, Wasson, all of them, are reading from a playbook of what they have been told we want to hear.
Here's hoping for the real question/answer encounter you and I both deserve, and everyone needs.
Billy won't get my vote. I think he is a jerk and not anything he says he is! I see him as a pawn that is not intelligent but someone who is directed by others that have little concern about mankind, but rather about their own agenda.
These are not debates. They are brief bullshit sessions.
ReplyDeleteEach candidate gets to ramble on without giving specific examples of what they believe needs to be done by the United States Congress.
I must say. This is the sorriest crop of candidates ever to collectively run for this seat in Southwest Missouri, ever.
Wouldn't it be nice if the candidates had to answer question from the audience or other sources, not knowing what those questions might be. When the candidates get the questions in advance, it becomes just another media commercial.
ReplyDelete11:49, your recommendation is the problem, not the solution. Do you think you could ask a question that would derive a specific answer? If yes, I stand corrected.
ReplyDeletePick twelve issues. Ask each candidate to give one specific solution to a problem on that issue.
He who delivers, wins.
I believe Long does not have the mental capacity to have one solution to one single problem in any issue.
Don't know about Eck.
Craig? Just way to goofy.
to 11:49
ReplyDeleteI am not sure what you point is. I think that I could ask a question that would help me decide how I would want to vote. Are you saying you know how you are going to vote right now or our you willing to ask a question about any issue.
I think if we have a voter that is informed and knows how they want to vote then we will be a better society.
I personally would question the ability of Billy to serve our state with the respect it deserves, but I am willing to listen to a real question/answer encounter before I decide.
How about you?
4:06, I agree with you but Mr. Long has been campaigning since January, 2009.
ReplyDeleteCan you remember one specific solution to one specific problem from all of this time? I can't.
Is that his fault? Perhaps not but I believe the media has a responsibility to take a leadership role in getting specific answers to specific questions, be it in a debate, forum or whatever. The media has failed us and unfortunately, none of the candidates have outline solutions to problems in any great detail.
Watch the 30-second commercials. Blunt, Long, Dixon, Wasson, all of them, are reading from a playbook of what they have been told we want to hear.
Here's hoping for the real question/answer encounter you and I both deserve, and everyone needs.
Just remember that you are voting FOR someone to represent you, not against someone. There's rarely ever only 2 options.
ReplyDeleteBilly won't get my vote. I think he is a jerk and not anything he says he is!
ReplyDeleteI see him as a pawn that is not intelligent but someone who is directed by others that have little concern about mankind, but rather about their own agenda.