a little red hen: A Little Red Hen to Obama and Clinton #1

Somebody had to do it...why not US?

I was pleased with an email from Women'sEnews that the my question of Clinton and Obama had been added to this list for their upcoming forum in Pennsylvania. Rita Jensen, Editor-in-Chief of this online service, will be asking representatives of the Democratic candidates this list of questions their readers have submitted.

You will not be surprised that mine was about Aging. Why, I asked, are older women not visible on either of the candidates' websites. I point out that John Edwards' campaign site listed an 11-point, "Declaration of Independence for Older Americans" with specific concerns addressed-- affordable prescription drugs and Social Security among them.

Check out the entire list. Is there another you'd like to ask?

Wednesday's dreadful ABC-TV "debate" with Obama and Clinton has had some encouraging fallout. GoozNews.com alerted me to a letter by angry journalists (Merrill Goozner among them) on The Nation's website. They let the network know what a travesty the program was. You can send a letter to The Nation on your ideas about a "meaningful presidential debate."

All of us need to be shaping the questions and complaining to the media about what we are not hearing. I believe it's called substantive issues. In "Road Map to Defeat," Bob Herbert's column in today's New York Times --

"The issues still favor the Democrats....Instead of capitalizing on the political advantages...the Democrats, with their increasingly small-minded approach are squandering them...It's not too late [but] The GOP's fondest wish is tht the Democrats keep doing what they're doing."

February 2012

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glenn greenwald has a GREAT column on the last debate, and digby has some splendid words, too. i HATE it that the media--even bob herbert, whom i love--are already dumping on the democratic candidates. HOW do they FREAKING KNOW this???? if only they would apply the same stringent standards to that jackass mccain!! but they love him...why? because he's funny, and being a bunch of draft-dodgers themselves, they kind of admire him.

we need to get over this mean way of thinking about the democratic party and its TWO SPLENDID candidates for president.

Posted by: M.E. | April 19, 2008 at 07:41 PM