Presidential Youth Debate Answers and Details Now Online

Last month, Slashdot readers contributed their own inquiries to the pool of questions for the Walden University Presidential Youth Debate. Two of those questions made the cut, and you can watch either the individual video responses to each of the questions presented to John McCain and Barack Obama (by scrolling down the just-linked debate home page), or the whole debate straight through. For something meatier, if you are weary of predictably slippery campaign-style answers, Ethan Rowe of End Point has a very interesting blog post about the technology background of the debate.

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[SuperKendall]

Or, better yet, don't choose "evil" at all... take a stand and refuse the non-choices we have been given for candidates.

Currently that attitude means you are acting for Obama to win.

If you truly think it does not matter the Democrats gain a complete majority, that is your choice of course. But I do not think it a wise course of action.

They WANT you to think you're cornered and only have two options...

You only have two people that will win this election. As much as you or I would wish otherwise, this is fact. This is reality.

One will win, you can either help even the balance of power so to keep both sides as ineffective as possible, or you can (through inaction) cause the elevation of even worse problems with government in terms of power and growth than we have seen to date.

Do you want to send a message that no-one will hear, or do you want to help prevent changes over the next four years that will take forty to undo? Do you want to send messages, or actually be effective?

There is no fear here, only practicality and calculation. It's not fear that makes me say Obama or McCain will win the presidency... it's just fact. Everything stems from there. Libertarian ideas must be ratcheted in place to hold, they cannot all be pushed by force in one massive movement.