Texas Threatens to Arrest U.N. Observers at the Polls: We Don’t Need International Supervision of OUR Elections

Texas has threatened to arrest United Nations officials if they show up at any voting locations in the state of Texas.  Good!

We don’t need the U.N. to play any part in our elections.  If they do show up, it will give the militia types more reasons to scream about U.N. troops taking over the U.S.

I think the U.N. has bigger fish to fry and can be more useful elsewhere in the world on November 6th.

Romney Should Have Openly Questioned Candy Crawley’s Impartiality at the Debate When She Kept Cutting Him Off: Moderators Should Not Be Influencing the Debate to That Degree

“Sit down, Mr. Romney.” 

Crawley should have just said “STFU Mr. Romney!!” and gotten any image of impartiality off the table.  She was awful and was tiled toward President Obama all evening long.

Reporters should limited to asking questions during the debate, not moderating, or they shouldn’t be from openly biased news outfits.  This would exclude CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News from providing  moderators.  

What was the debate commission thinking, choosing a moderator who described Romney’s VP pick as a “ticket death wish”  in the days and weeks before the debate?  THAT’S IMPARTIAL?

Obama had to have help to fight off Romney in this debate, and he got it in the form of Candy Crowley, who managed to turn it into a three-way dance.

I was just watching one of the George HW Bush/Bill Clinton/Ross Perot debates on YouTube from 1992.  That was a well-run debate and looks like what a proper debate should look like, compared to last night’s train wreck of a debate.  She even got on CNN and admitted after the debate that she was incorrect about her Libya “fact check” and that Romney was “right in the main” but had chosen one wrong word.  Thanks for the clarification.

And what was she doing on CNN after the debate?  Spinning for Obama from the moderator’s chair?

Slate documented some of the problems with the train wrecked debate.  And this is coming from a liberal-leaning magazine, so there were huge issues with the debate last night that the left and right noticed.

Regardless of who won, there were major structural problems with how this debate was set up, how it was run, and how the candidates and audience acted during the course of the debate.

Can we get some independent news journalists and others in to moderate these debates?