We Probably Won’t Get a Debate
Unfortunately, it looks as if the once-touted YouTube debate in New Orleans won’t happen.
With less than a hundred days out, there’s just not a heck of a lot of time to fit in a fourth (and I suppose “unofficial”) Presidential debate.
A proposed YouTube/Google presidential debate in New Orleans next month appears unlikely to happen.
In accepting the four official Presidential Debate Commission scheduled debates – one of which would be for the vice-presidential nominees – the Barack Obama campaign said late Saturday that there probably isn’t enough time for any additional debates.
OK. If there’s really not enough time, then at least make some time during the three other debates to talk specifically about New Orleans and the issues affecting the Gulf Coast– models of rebuilding, the continued and persistent problems with levee protection, Cat 5 commitment, the vulnerabilities of our oil and gas infrastructure, overhauling FEMA, and ensuring for the effective expenditure of disaster relief funds in the future, to name a few.
