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Why is there any Need to have a Time/Place

FreeDem — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:06:24 -0400

Hello?..... This is the Internet calling! Time place and space don't matter here!

If YouTube and CNN want to sponsor a debate, then Do it here!

Let the questions and answers be in a special place on YouTube, grouped so that Questions answers and follow up questions could be asked and answered on a permanent archive format, and invite Al Gore, Wes Clark, and anyone with support and willing if called to join in.

With a PreNomination system like that ALL of America can have a voice, and you don't need to raise Millions to do it.

That would make a much better nomination system that leaving it up to two rather conservative States, and all the Money people, to do the first vetting before that.

call me crazy

paigeturner2 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:30:00 -0400

I'd love to see a debate that was essentially based on constitutional questions. Almost a gameshow type format. If a candidate answers correctly, he/she earns time to discuss their stance on that issue. I doubt many of the candidates know as much about the Constitution as they would like for us to believe. After all, it's the document they would be swearing to uphold. How refreshing it would be knowing those with more face-time actually earned it.

I just visited the YouTube website

stevegarfield — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:33:48 -0400

I just visited the YouTube website, expecting to be able to look at all the questions submitted by people to the Democratic CNN*YouTube Debates.

http://www.youtube.com/contest/DemocraticDebate

They don't have it set up so you can easily find the submitted videos.

If you click the submit button, you'll see that you are presented with a list of your videos.

This means the the videos are public, just not officially organized by YouTube.

That's easily fixed by publicizing a TAG for everyone to use on their videos. CNNYOUTUBEDEBATES seems reasonable to me.

I just did a search:

No Videos found for 'cnnyoutubedebates'

That's unique enough to allow us to see everyone's submissions. let's use it!

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The CNN/YouTube Debate: Make it Truly Open

Joshua Levy — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:31:23 -0400

This morning Micah and I participated in a conference call with CNN President Jon Klein, CNN VP and Washington D.C. bureau chief David Bohrman, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley, and YouTube politics and news editor Steve Grove. While the semi-illuminating hour made CNN and YouTube's intentions clear, we were disappointed by one major detail.