iVoteAmerica will post the interviews for our readers to digest.

The debate choreography is nonsense. The crafting of the props, including muzzling the audience and pre-selecting a so-called “balanced” allowance of hand picked questioners is no debate at all.

Another thing. Why is it that only the media are the sole moderators of such debates? After all, what do multi-millionaire, left-leaning media people like Tom Brokaw know that we don’t?

Imagine the Real American McCoy Running the Debates

Why not have a team of real American moderators that represent us, the people, running the show and asking the questions? Let’s call this the “All American Debate Panel.”

Such a panel could include, a home-maker mom from Cleveland, a surgeon from San Diego, a single dad from Kansas, a factory worker from Detroit, a CEO from a prominent national bank (ouch!), a health insurance representative, newlyweds who want to purchase their first home, a veteran or two, a wall street broker, a small plumbing business owner from Springfield, MO, a retiree from Sun City, AZ, an immigrant waiting for citizenship, etc.

The debates need to be at least three hours to allow true grilling of the candidates. Cross-examination and crowd hoopla would include such things as hissing and booing when the candidates lie or exaggerate.

At the conclusion all of the Americans in attendance will vote for the winner electronically. No polls by the professional pollsters will be conducted just real polling of Americans in attendance.

This debate approach would allow true informational exchanges. Rules would include allowing the candidates to talk off the cuff and for the audience to actually challenge their answers. Let the candidates literally argue their way into the Presidency by scoring points with the “Real McCoys,” us.

Let’s Legislate the Presidential Debate Format into Federal Law

In fact, we should legislate this concept into national law so that no politician can hide and no mainstream media host can manipulate the questions with his/her tone, pace and editorial comments.

National Presidential debate formats should be codified as a requirement of the candidates. They should be held in at least 6 cities of different sizes with at least two of them held in local gymnasiums in towns with less than 15,000 populations. There should be no media people on site, except camera operators and necessary stage personnel. All other media people can watch from home, like we do, take notes and report their stories.

These debates need to be real debates and the blueprinting by the controllers needs to end.

After all, did any of us come away from the Obama-McCain debate with new information or insights about the candidates that would help us make a decision in 27 days.

Your thoughts? Will you watch the next and final debate? Why? What do/did you glean from the time spent glued to the tube?

Read about the Lincoln-Douglas debate.

The image used here is courtesy of University of Arizona.

On September 13, 2008 during The View, Walters went “WA-WA” on John McCain, interrupting, turning her cold shoulder to him and failing to look him in the eye while attacking his selection of Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential candidate.

See the YouTube replay here.

iVoteAmerica doesn’t care about The View and how it chooses to execute its program and John McCain is a big boy who should be able to hold up to the women who host The View.

You Just think it’s the Economy

What we do want our readers to note is that the division among American women over the selection of Sarah Palin continues to be “THE STORY” of this election.

Palin is the new Republican weapon and an electrifying personality whose rapid rise has taken her from the relative obscurity of the Governorship of Alaska to a heart-beat from the most powerful position in the world, President of the United States.

Palin is intelligent, articulate, disciplined, outspoken and accomplished in her own right, but Palin is a novice when it comes to the intensity of the Washington culture. This is why the McCain campaign is grooming her, metering her and throttling her appearances while she comes up to political speed.

Clinton Vs. Palin 2012: Mano-a-Mano

When it comes to Sarah Palin, the Republican Party is already looking beyond this election toward 2012 and the potential match-up of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. This would truly be a war of the women unlike anything we have ever seen.

For the first time, the Veep selection actually matters. For the first time, in a long time, people are not defining the Vice President in obscure terms such as “the nation’s funeral director.”

We are witnessing a major shift from male-based presidential campains to female-centric politics. But more than this, we are witnessing the rebirth of the cultural wars that have been dividing women since the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.

Should McCain prevail in November and become the next President of the United States, Obama will be severly weakened, Hillary Clinton will be vindicated and the 2012 election could pit Palin against Clinton. Watching the two of them go mano-a-mano will be the most fascinating and exhilerating match up in the history of Presidential elections.

iVoteAmerica thinks the vote count in this election is going to be about Palin’s influence over the female vote. If you don’t believe it, start asking the women you know? This race is about Palin, its about Hillary, it’s about women.

Thank you “WA-WA.”

Obama made an appearance this morning at a school in Virginia to address the subject of education but was forced by public and media attention to address the lipstick on a pig comment.

The McCain team came out swinging over the pig comment, putting pressure on the Obama team to focus on Sarah Palin, pigs, pit bulls and cosmetics. Never mind the fact that John McCain himself has used the “lipstick on a pig” comment to refer to legislation and politcal distortions in Washington.

We Need a Candidate Code of Conduct

Obama mentioned the students were putting together a “code of conduct” to govern how they treat each other during the school year. He then quipped, “Wouldn’t it be great if Congress could do the same.”

Obama said he needed to divert his comments to the “made up controversy,” referring to the “pig and lipstick” comment that he said was, “taken out of context.”

Obama demanded that the media and McCain “Spare me the phony outrage…” calling this an “innocent remark” and one that “the news media decided that that it should be the lead story.”

Wouldn’t be nice if we had a “Candidate’s Code of Conduct” signed by all politicians?

Is Obama Right on this One?

iVoteAmerica thinks on this one Barack Obama is right and we don’t think Obama ever intended to actually call Sarah Palin a pig. iVoteAmerica agrees with Obama on this one because we are truly “sick and tired of politics.”

Barack is right…”every four years this is what we do.”

Obama then went on to reference education, the economy, two wars…”and this is what they want to talk about…” “Enough,” said Obama, “enough is enough.”

“These are serious times and they call for serious debate…we have real problems in this country and the American people want real answers to real problems…” said Obama.

Is Obama Right on this One?

In a Presidential election, we deserve the highest levels of speech, demeanor and more importantly a specific focus on the policies and programs the candidates intend to support.

Don’t we deserve more? We have a war in Afghanistan, a war in Iraq, problems in North Korea and Iran, Russia flexing its muscles with surrounding neighbors, a huge deficit, housing market in shambles, financial institutions teetering on collapse and a President and Congress with the lowest approval ratings in history.

Don’t YOU deserve more?