Oct 04 2012
Presidential Debate Offers No Critique of Capitalism
The two major party candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney faced off against each other for the first time in this election season last night at the University of Denver in Colorado. The first presidential debate, moderated by PBS’s Jim Lehrer, excluded all other party candidates from the debate.
The candidates sparred over the economy with respect to taxes, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, financial regulations, domestic energy production, and the role of government. Commentators this morning are concluding that Governor Romney appeared to be the better prepared of the two, while President Obama appeared unsure of himself.
It is still too soon to tell what impact last night’s debate will have on both major party candidate’s popularity, particularly in swing states like Ohio and Colorado. But we’ll spend the next 30 minutes of our program this morning getting into the issues discussed and whether some of the facts thrown out by the candidates stand up to scrutiny.
GUESTS: Our guests today are a roundtable of Uprising’s 2012 Election analysts: Roberto Lovato, Writer with New America Media, Co-Founder of Presente.org, Adele Stan, is the Washington bureau chief for AlterNet, and Eric Mann, host of Voices from the Frontline, and author of Playbook for Progressives
4 Responses to “Presidential Debate Offers No Critique of Capitalism”
Presidential Debate Standings, Round 1
First Place: Dr. Jill Stein
Close 2d: Rocky Anderson
Very Distant 3d: Mitt Romney
Close 4th: Barack Obama
Why are we given a choice from among the worst, of which we choose the lesser of two evils??
In 2008, Eric Mann told people to vote for Obama (http://kasamaproject.org/2008/10/24/eric-mann-10-reasons-for-obama-vote/). In 2009, he gave a speech at the Labor Strategy Center’s 20th anniversary in which he strongly criticized Obama. What does Mann have to say for himself and is he endorsing Obama again?
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