After a lot of back and forth, there will be a third party presidential debate tonight in Washington D.C. The debate will also be broadcast live on CSPAN starting at 9PM. So far, all six presidential candidates have been invited but so far only Constitutional candidate Chuck Baldwin and Independent candidate Ralph Nader have confirmed their attendance. Still, these two candidates represent opposite sides of the political spectrum, with Chuck Baldwin being a true conservative in the Ron Paul tradition, while Ralph Nader is a true liberal in the Ralph Nader tradition.
I'm glad that a debate will occur, as I was actually thinking of withdrawing my vote for Nader if he was not able to debate someone, my thinking being that if you can't get a debate going, how could you ever manage a country? Now, I know this debate is not organized by Mr. Nader and that he has a campaign to run but in my opinion the best thing for Ron Paul and Ralph Nader would have been to spend some of those megabucks raised by money bombs and fundraising on getting a new debate going counter to the mainstream, corporate owned debates.
Hopefully Cynthia McKinney is able to show up at the debates tonight too, though Bob Barr has stated numerous times he will not attend due to a prior engagement at Georgia Tech. Honestly, if I was in charge of the Barr event at GT, I'd cancel it and encourage him to attend the debate, but perhaps that's why I'm not running a campaign...
In either case, tune in tonight to C-SPAN or head on over to Restore the Republic Radio for a live web stream of the event.
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Post written on 2008-10-23.
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Sounds interesting. Unfortunetly my 12 inch television with bunny ears lacks the ability to catch cspan waves…
I think it would have been a great idea for Nader/Paul to use the cash they piled up to get a debate going. Sure beats the crap debates we are stuck watching.
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Well, not sure how your computer monitor is, but there’s always the web stream via CSPAN.org.
It’s how I’ll be watching it on my 24 inch SoYo monitor…
If you don’t have cable you can watch and hear it on http://www.rtrradio.com . They are airing it on the web.
Thanks for the info Travis.
We’ll also be live blogging the event at the freshly launched Proletariat Power.
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Hopefully people will think before they vote
That’s all we can really ask favorites. As long as someone puts some thought into their vote then their vote is valid. Those who vote based on race, gender, or some other shallow reason mock and harm our democracy.
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