Your reaction to the debate?

by TM

ABC News has received thousands of responses to Charles Gibson's and George Stephanopoulos's moderation of tonight's Democratic debate in PA.

I thought it was the worst moderation ever, "gotcha" questions rather than real policy issues. Elizabeth Drew in the latest New York Review of Books (posted earlier) called it "molehill politics" — the concerted effort to make every molehill into a mountain.

Most of those writing in expressed similar views, which you can see here.

Here is a sample:

"Our country is engaged in unlawful war, our military is breaking, our economy faces severe recession, our moral standing in the world has collapsed, our currency has lost nearly half its value, our infrastructure is disintegrating, our citizens cannot afford to stay in their homes though Wall Street moguls make billions of dollars annually, our current adminsitration condones and encourages torture - and lies to us about their actions, our borders cannot be adequatley policed for unlawful entry, our school sytems are so underfunded as to be barely above 'third-world' standards, our major auto manufacturers refuse to create vehicles that achieve even half the mpg of European manufactures, our minimum wage is slightly above poverty levels, our health care system operates to benefit the pharmaceutical industry, our veterans are ignored; their physical and emotional suffering trivialized, our energy conglomerates purposely stand in the way of advancing alternative energy, our citizens believe elections have been manipulated and stolen - and that our government has manufactured terror to maintain the facade of protecting us, our constitutional rights and responsibilities have been abridged and decimated, our access to meaningful 'news' is stymied by corporate media interests, our government spies on us by unlawful means under the guise of protecting our freedoms, our military commanders present disparate assessments of our 'success' in the middle east, our citizenry argues about gay marriage and flag burning while congress postures about life-saving possibilities of stem cell research, our airwaves are filled with hate speech spewing from commentators more interested in shocking us than being truthful..... and you waste our time at this most crucial period in US history asking a man as intelligent and insightful as Senator Obama why he doesn't wear a flag pin on his lapel? This? This is the best we can do to elect a president?"
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Bitter in Seattle 11:42 PM
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