Tonight for as long as I am able I will be blogging the Democratic Presidential debate. Debates, alas, are not what they used to be. Witness the headline I just saw at CNN "dot" com: " Dem candidates in one another's face for first time." Now just what kind of headline is that? Besides being grammatically incorrect and awkward, it is inaccurate, unkind, and un-Presidential.
Yet, this is the kind of verbiage around the Presidential race we now take for granted. And does anyone remember the neutral third-party nonprofit organization which sponsored several debates? It is and was called the League of Women Voters. Forced out of the sponsorship of debates by circumstances, the League is still very much around. It is now working on reform of the redistricting process in this country which has turned into a gerrymandering field day exercise in ever so many of our states.
Yet here we are, attempting to elect the President of the most powerful nation on earth by using phrases such as "in each other's face (sic)" and "jabs." Such language may have been all right in the nineteenth century when the nation was still mostly undeveloped. But for a world leader in the 21st century it is the picture of ridiculousness.
Yet, this is the kind of verbiage around the Presidential race we now take for granted. And does anyone remember the neutral third-party nonprofit organization which sponsored several debates? It is and was called the League of Women Voters. Forced out of the sponsorship of debates by circumstances, the League is still very much around. It is now working on reform of the redistricting process in this country which has turned into a gerrymandering field day exercise in ever so many of our states.
Yet here we are, attempting to elect the President of the most powerful nation on earth by using phrases such as "in each other's face (sic)" and "jabs." Such language may have been all right in the nineteenth century when the nation was still mostly undeveloped. But for a world leader in the 21st century it is the picture of ridiculousness.
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