More CNN/YouTube Debate Follow Up

I have to do a little self-blogwhoring again. At my second blog I have a breakdown of the number of male verses female question askers. What I couldn't say about the guy who asked Hillary Clinton if Arab and Muslim nations would deal with a *gasp* woman, I pretty much say here in the comments.

Let it be known that it's not *actually* my regular second blog (that's this one)...we were having issues with blogger and had to put it in the second site. Which is kind of why I'm blogwhoring it because otherwise no one will ever find it.

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That debate was aggressive! There were a lot of questions that are things that people talk about, like the man who asked Hillary Clinton about two families running the country for 20 years, that people rarely get asked to their face.

Too many similar questions on Iraq. I know we're democrats but I would have rather seen a greater selection of topics.

Some of the videos were very good. But the “funny” videos mostly made me cringe. Any video with anyone singing. The snowman one about global warming. It's a little like it was "America's Got Talent" night.

I can't blame the video makers, but CNN which was ultimate gatekeeper here. So what exactly was their criteria? How about some transparency in the selection process or was it just the big black box that spits out YouTube video questions at random?

It seemed to me there were a lot of questions which were framed as if a Republican was asking the question. “Will you raise taxes like the way every Democrat usually does.” The gun owner who called his assault rifle his “child.”

I don’t mind that, Republicans are citizens who vote. Checking people’s party registration isn’t the way to handle citizen questions.

But it does make me wonder if now I can ask an abortion question Kitty Dukakis-style to the Republicans.

Something like “If your daughter/niece was raped, would you tell her she can’t have emergency contraception? Would you tell her she can’t get an abortion if she found herself pregnant?”