Presidential Youth Debate Answers and Details Now Online 74
Last month, Slashdot readers contributed their own inquiries to the pool of questions for the Walden University Presidential Youth Debate. Two of those questions made the cut, and you can watch either the individual video responses to each of the questions presented to John McCain and Barack Obama (by scrolling down the just-linked debate home page), or the whole debate straight through. For something meatier, if you are weary of predictably slippery campaign-style answers, Ethan Rowe of End Point has a very interesting blog post about the technology background of the debate.
Transcript (Score:2, Informative)
Are transcripts of the video responses available anywhere? I checked quickly, but there doesn't appear to be one on the main site. It's a shame that such a 'high-tech' 'debate' can't deliver information to those unable to hear the responses.
Re:The question we failed to ask (Score:3, Informative)
Quoting the Daily Fail is never a good idea..
That's 1.5bn christmas bonus shared between 10,000 staff and 5.5bn in salary that they'd have to pay anyway.
Yes it's a big figure, but it's nowhere *near* as bad as the headline would suggest.
CPD question not even answered (Score:4, Informative)
They didn't even comment on the Commission on Presidential Debates which is Dems and Reps trying to limit the debates to just their parties, despite question number six asking about it.
Just another opportunity for the candidates to 1) not even answer the questions and 2) we didn't even see Barr/Nader/Baldwin/McKinney asked any of these questions on an equal level.
Why even bother asking about the commission on presidential debates when the debate itself excludes minor party candidates that have enough ballot access to potentially win the election?
tooting my own horn. (Score:4, Informative)
all of those questions are typical shit political questions. They don't force any real answers.
my question http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=978947&cid=25190311 [slashdot.org]
I asked that and it should have been put forth. Whomever chose the questions is a nitwit.
Re:The question we failed to ask (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The question we failed to ask (Score:3, Informative)
From the article:
The news comes after it was revealed that even bankers working for collapsed Wall Street giant, Lehman Brothers, could receive huge payouts.
Its 10,000 U.S. staff are expected to share a £1.5billion bonus pool. The payouts were agreed as part of the rescue takeover of Lehman's American arm by Barclays last month.
That's the Lehman Brothers. The 7 billion pounds or roughly 11.5 billion USD bonus is for Goldman Sachs.
Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million.