Reinventing Presidential Debates

P.S. Huff
Sunday, January 22, 2012

This post by the always-interesting Ann Althouse got me thinking about just how useless post-primary presidential debates are in this country. Nothing intelligent is ever said on either side.

I suggest it's time for a new paradigm. Instead of the two presidential candidates "debating" one another for an hour and a half, each presidential candidate should have to debate a non-candidate who (a) does not hold any public office and (b) knows what he is talking about.

Question: Who would you make each candidate debate? I propose Glenn Greenwald versus Barack Obama, and Ron Paul versus whoever gets the GOP nomination.

2 comments:

Mordac writes:

Actually I would like a Portuguese (and I assume generally latin?) style debate where the candidates seat at a table and actually talk to one another.

January 22, 2012 7:14 PM

P.S. Huff writes:

Interesting. But suppose you tried to hold one. My guess is that the candidates would just deliver the same mini-speeches while pretending to talk to one another. But maybe I'm wrong.

January 23, 2012 12:13 AM

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