16 April, 2008
Things that were not discussed in tonight's debate
- The financial crisis
- The collapse of housing values in the US and around the world
- Health care
- Energy
- Immigration
- Education
- Trade
- Pakistan
- Afghanistan
- Iran
- China
- Torture
- Global warming
- The world food crisis
- The declining value of the US Dollar
Things that were:
- Whether Obama thinks people in small towns are "bitter"
- Whether Obama should have walked out of his preacher's church
- Whether Obama supports Weather Underground, a terrorist group who were last operational over 30 years ago
- Whether Obama isn't patriotic because he doesn't wear a flag-pin in his lapel
- How Obama intends to modify affirmative action so rich black kids don't get special treatment
- Whether the candidates support gun control
- How the candidates plan to get out of Iraq
- Whether the candidates will raise taxes, and how exactly
In all, nearly substance-free and pretty nakedly pro-Hillary. ABC's debates are terrible even by the very low standard of American political debates.