Joe Biden’s campaign asks voters to swamp the YouTube/CNN debate with the same question. Now it’s not a bad question — after we leave Iraq, what then? But we don’t really need a candidate to tell us what to ask the candidates, do we?
Still, there’s some handy instruction here for how to submit a question to the debates. So go ask.
* Here’s a guy who asked the same question on his own two weeks ago:
And here’s my own version three months ago:
Well, when CNN is content to let the candidates slide by with their 30-second “get out now” soundbites and rushes to the next pre-packaged buzzword bonanza without a decent opportunity for discussion of what happens after the other candidates pull the troops out, it’s a worthy effort to make sure CNN hears this question over and over again. It’s not about the originality of the question, it’s about trying to ensure the post-war political solution is given its due time during the debate, because it’s the issue that will weigh heavily on international security policy for many years to come.
And for full disclaimer, that June 30 video of mine was a trial version of the language worked out specifically for this online endeavor; it wasn’t that I, like you, had already asked the question from scratch.