You really do owe it to yourself to watch the debate this coming Wednesday night between President Obama and Mitt Romney.
OK, OK, it's not going to be a "real" debate.
It's been a long, long time since Lincoln and Douglas crossed swords in the hinterlands of Illinois, for a celebrated series of debates that went something like this: two men with strong voices and strong hearts stood up in the middle of crowds of thousands of people, and talked earnestly and fervently for several hours about serious issues of the day.....
....and apparently the crowds basically stood there and listened, the history books are not filled with anecdotes of beastly heckling and disruptions....
So, it's not going to be a "real debate," and I guess the moderator most likely will ask the usual series of lackluster, provocative questions, and the crowd will be a bit unruly, and mostly the candidates will be delivering "talking points".......
But it's a rare chance to hear the candidates live, maybe we'll learn something, and we owe it to ourselves to be informed...
Make a space in your life and watch the debate.
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