10 Real Presidential Candidate Debates Needed

Ok, if you are anything like me, you are fed up with 90 minute debates that contain 80 minutes of drivel and gossip, followed by 10 minutes of real issue discussion after 90% of the viewers have already left out of disgust. I would have to say, like myself, you are tired of “canned debates” and speeches, where all of the following occur; the audience is screened, the “journalists” may have engaged in male prostitution, the questions are selected by the Main Stream Media with the only reason being they want to prolong the debates to increase profit, the questions are “softballs”, and the candidates recite the names of past presidents, dead or alive, as answers to the question.

As all past debates have proven, we cannot count on the MSM to have the attention span any longer than a kid with ADD in Toys-R-Us without his Riddilin. The issues we face in the future are too great and too important to believe we can spend 10 minutes, or less, on any one of them with the notion they will be revisited in future debates, because they will not be as “new breaking gossip” rears its ugly head once again. Therefore, as the concerns of this nation are too important, each one of these debates must be about one main topic or theme and there is no room for tangents taken off of these predetermined issues.

I have watched most debates, both Republican & Democratic, and honestly I have not learned much, if anything, about either Senator Barack Obama or Senator John McCain in the over 30 hours they have “graced” the screen. It is time for open, honest debates to be held on issues, so that for once in my generation I can learn about whichever candidate I decide to vote for before I vote. The times are too important to “vote for not that guy” and the electorate for once, must stand up, with the assistance of the Presidential Candidates, and vote based on what the candidate can offer and how closely the candidate’s beliefs match the reality that the voter lives in. No longer is it allowed to vote on Ideology & Pragmatism alone. The voter must set aside ideological issues like “God & Guns” which do not directly influence their lives and make a decision based on the cold, hard reality of “Jobs & Food” in which they live.

No more MSM mediators of the debates, they all fail miserably and as we know it is about ratings and profit for their parent corporation, not the good of the electorate. Potentially each debate could be moderated by two people, one of each “Party” or Ideology, so that no one candidate could be discriminated upon by “faux” journalists. The moderators, just like the candidates must stay on the topic as well, no straying to the gossip pages allowed.

The Moderator Teams:

• 1) Jon Stewart & Tony Snow
• 2) Warren Buffet & Michael Bloomberg
• 3) George Soros & Rubert Murdock
• 4) Colin Powell & Wesley Clark
• 5) Oprah Winfrey & Martha Stewart
• 6) Pat Roberson & Jesse Jackson
• 7) Gov. Arnold Swartenagger & Gov. Jesse Ventura
• President Carter & Tony Blair
• 9) Kieth Olbermann & Bill O’Reilly (they would be the most entertaining match-up )
• 10) Koffe Annan (former head of UN) & Pat Buchannon (but not Pat, someone in the “isolationist camp”)

The Topics to be Covered
(They align with their numbered Moderators)

• 1) The Planet, Climate Change & Green Technology/Green Economy, Future Outlook
• 2) American Macro Economy: Balancing Budgets, National Debt, Spending, Dollar Devaluation
• 3) Medio Economic: Jobs Development, Globalization, College Education (Between the Government & The “Doorstep”
• 4) Iraq, What to do & where to go? (1/4 on State of US Military as a Whole & Rebuilding it)
• 5) Average American Life, Values, Pressure & Struggles of an American Family
• 6) Social Issues-Religion, Civil Rights, Education
• 7) Executive Management (Running the White House, Working with Congress & Judiciary)
• Iran, Global Terrorism & Israeli Relations (prioritized in that order & time needed)
• 9) Energy Policy, Energy “Independence”, Resources & Origins, Nuclear vs Wind & Solar
• 10) US Foreign Relations: Mending Alliances & Role of US in the Global Community, Immigration

I think an immediate Congressional bill should be written and passed into law by the President, authorizing $1 Billion (less than a day in Iraq) to be allocated for buying airtime on all MSM (Big 3 Network & the Big 3 Cable) that they would agree to charge 1/2 price normal rates. The have more than profited from the last 4 months of ever continuing Primary Coverage.

So I am up for any ideas, I am certain there are more topics that could easily fill a debate per week until the Election in November. I don’t care how large or small the venue is, however 1000 people should be the max for most of them given the disturbances that would be caused (applause, booing, chanting, The Wave!). There should be at least one in each of the two candidates preferred speaking forums, tiny for McCain & Large for Obama.

Let the idea flow forth. Ideas for “better” moderators are welcome. I see the need for another 11th debate on “Military ‘Readiness’ & Veterans Affairs” that could be removed from Topic #4 Iraq as it needs at least one full debate, if not another.