Not a surprise, as the New York Times points out, but it is disappointing.
Having the debate in New Orleans would provide a forum for residents to grill candidates. But the committee in charge of the decision, as the Times complains, "sounded as if they cared more about the stretch-limo and hospitality-suite amenities of politicking."
I agree, give the city a chance to help right its wrong, and to ask the difficult and important questions to the person who will be the next president.
Today MySpace and MTV announced the details of the presidential candidate forums they will hold this fall. Hosted on college campuses across the country, broadcast on MTV and streamed live on MySpace, the forums seek to foster “candid, unfiltered” discussions between young voters and the major Republican and Democratic candidates.
As I write in an identical blog post at HuffPo, the blogosphere seems abuzz with optimism about the forums, the latest evidence that 2008 won’t be your mother and father’s election. “MTV and MySpace have hit up an interactive format with the potential to pioneer a whole new way of doing candidate debates/forums,” writes Michael Connery, co-founder of Future Majority, a prominent blog with well-done reporting on progressive youth politics. (Yes, that Mike Connery who came at Campus Progress back in June.)
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