Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: `Debate' suggestion Message-ID: <372@cepu.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 10:34:01 EDT Article-I.D.: cepu.372 Posted: Thu Oct 11 10:34:01 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 08:03:17 EDT References: <174@rlgvax.UUCP> Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Distribution: net Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA Lines: 16 Summary: In article <174@rlgvax.UUCP> plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (S. Plunkett) writes: >Why not this: Each candidate, in turn, is submitted to two one-hour >sit-down discussion sessions with, say, Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. for one >session and, say, J. K. Galbraith for the other. The intent is to >have each candidate grilled [...] and absurdities seen last Sunday >night: e.g., a scolding moderator, a partisan and cheering audience, >insipid questions, dodged and incomplete answers, and not least, >an utter waste of time for all concerned. Right on! What a wonderful idea. You should send a hard copy to the League of Women Voters (the folks who usually arrange the 'debates'). -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcrdcf}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 3' 9.1" W 118 27' 4.3"