Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. April 17, 2008. It was hard to top some of the previous ones for pure inanity, but ABC pulled it off.
Will Durst, AlterNet. February 29, 2008. Clinton and Obama agree on almost every policy issue. That's not a debate -- it's a swimsuit competition with pants.
Mark Ames, AlterNet. February 1, 2008. Stupefied by the excitement over the Democratic contest, an American expat asks us, "What's gotten into you people?"
Eric Haas, The Rockridge Institute. December 5, 2007. By repeating the phrase "illegal immigrants," the media and politicians have created a misleading framework to talk about immigration.
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. July 24, 2007. All the fear of unfiltered, unmediated questions delivered directly from the electorate was misplaced. It was CNN and the candidates who let us down.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. July 24, 2007. Ari Melber: The YouTube debate lived up to its hype by serving up questions that traditional media moderators don't ask.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 29, 2007. Oliver Willis: I'm trying to figure out if this is the first debate to have the words "crack" and "cocaine" in them. I understand why, but....
David Sirota, AlterNet: Video. June 4, 2007. David Sirota: Projecting weakness has a lot less to do with issues than it does with refusing to wield the power the public has given you.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. June 3, 2007. In one of the more interesting exchanges from the New Hampshire Democratic debate, John Edwards takes Senators Clinton and Obama to task for not opposing Bush's Iraq War bill more vehemently.
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