| You know what? Ya a lot of what was asked, in fact, nearly all of what was asked has been asked before. But this is the first time I 'FELT' like watching.
Most of the time its all flugg and a bunch of old people giving dumb ass stump speeches and avoiding any questions we want to hear answers to and yes I know they did a whole hell of a lot of dodging tonight to I defintely felt like they were agitated by some of the directness of the questions.
Lesbians asked "Can we get married?"
Obama says" Marriage? No. civil unions, Yes. Civil Unions which have the full rights (i.e. to do their taxes and health care etc.) that marriage does but he said that each denomination should be able to decide what to allow two peolpe to do. Not the government.
While I personally don't give a damn who marries what I think that was a fan-fuckingtastic answer. I have seen civil unions as a response many times but thats the first time I heard it put like that "Let each denomination decided for themselves." Which I think is absoultey fucking great. Get government out of this one.
Sure mabye he answered that before but I never heard it and I was entertanied and enjoyed the questions and answers tonight. I think that is what is going to get more young voters out and we DO NEEED to get more young voters out.
Yes th questions were stil screened but the show host guy did an excellent job of pulling canadites back onto the question and forcing them to either answer it outright or not answer it at all. (And he called a few of them out for it)
Obvisouly they aren't going to answer every question outright but still I felt it was very good.
The question about reperations I felt was idiotic (I am black). I didn't think there is any reasonable way to even give out reperations these days it's just stupid to even think about it. But the canadites almost ALL gave FANTASITC ANSWERS! I did NOT expect what they said and mabye I'm not a super goddamn fucking genius like everyone here but I thought they were caught blindsided and still showed up.
I think its a GREAT idea to give some reperatinos in the form of more money to ALL people that need help in school, and health care, etc etc etc. I think they could draft a bill and even call it reperations bill or something and put it into effect. While its obviously just another "help the poor" bill it would still be a very very nice thing to have for lower class america.
For those of you who didnt watch it and have comments go watch it. It is worth it and it was good. It is not your standard debate imho. And for those of you who watched it and felt it was the same shit over and over.... Well I don't know what to say but i have feel asleep and been bored to tears by enough stump speech debates that appeal to rich america but not young or lower class america.. I want more questions..
I also love the peachers question.
Preacher "In the past religion has been used to justify racism and now none of you support that so do you support using religion to support discrimination against gays and lesbians?"
Or something like that... I PARAPHRASED A LOT so don't quote me.. If you want to hear their resopnses or more questions GO WATCH IT.
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Originally Posted by Requiem I'd elaborate on what I said since you obviously took it wrong, but I don't believe that you're stupid enough to not get what I was saying. The very next sentence qualifies the statement.
I see now. You're one of those people that looks for reasons to be offended. It must be frustrating to go through life like that. | |