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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 12:54 PM
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4. Not a big deal.
Edited on Mon Jun-04-07 12:55 PM by Heaven and Earth
They'll probably all agree with each other anyway. This isn't really an event where including the second-string is going to make a difference.
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  -ONLY THE 3 "FRONTRUNNERS" will discuss their FAITH/VALUES on CNN tonight-IS THIS DEMOCRACY AT WORK? FrenchieCat  Jun-04-07 12:49 PM   #0 
  - What do you think this is, C-SPAN? No, CNN is not a democracy.  Kagemusha   Jun-04-07 12:51 PM   #1 
  - I realize that the media has no responsibility to us our democracy  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:10 PM   #11 
     - Okay, it was hosted by a major New Hampshire paper, right?  Kagemusha   Jun-04-07 05:44 PM   #43 
  - I'd like to decide for myself, thank you.  rucky   Jun-04-07 12:52 PM   #2 
  - Where Can we Blast "Em with E-Mail?  Dinger   Jun-04-07 12:54 PM   #3 
  - Just go to CNN.com and nose around until you find a "contact."  DemBones DemBones   Jun-04-07 01:25 PM   #22 
  - Not a big deal.  Heaven and Earth   Jun-04-07 12:54 PM   #4 
  - Very fair; the others do not count.  Katzenkavalier   Jun-04-07 12:55 PM   #5 
  - Neither do the front runners.  Clark2008   Jun-04-07 01:16 PM   #14 
  - I hope that you were being "snarky" intentionally.......  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:24 PM   #21 
  - They've been advertising this on CNN for about a week now  Bullet1987   Jun-04-07 12:55 PM   #6 
  - To paraphrase Tina Turner, "whoa oh oh! What's Democracy got to do with it?"  wyldwolf   Jun-04-07 12:56 PM   #7 
  - And if they were all at the debate  doggyboy   Jun-04-07 01:00 PM   #9 
     - It isn't even a debate. It's a "forum."  Heaven and Earth   Jun-04-07 01:06 PM   #10 
        - How do we know that "they will all be saying the exact same thing" IF  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:44 PM   #32 
           - Because this one is about faith. Everyone except Kucinich is some brand of mainstream Christian  Heaven and Earth   Jun-04-07 02:41 PM   #37 
  - Are the other candidates attending this conference?  rinsd   Jun-04-07 12:59 PM   #8 
  - I don't believe so.....but I don't know if they were invited and declined, or what!  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:15 PM   #13 
     - They could very well have not been invited.  rinsd   Jun-04-07 01:18 PM   #16 
        - And to me, that would be the tackiest.....if the others had simply not even been invited!  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:27 PM   #23 
           - Weird for Sojourners of all people to do that though.  rinsd   Jun-04-07 01:35 PM   #27 
              - Agreed. I too believe that something is "not quite right".......  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:37 PM   #29 
  - In France, this would be illegal  StudentsMustUniteNow   Jun-04-07 01:11 PM   #12 
  - We did with Networks till 1987.....  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:19 PM   #17 
  - At some point they are going to have to start focusing one the serious candidates  Freddie Stubbs   Jun-04-07 01:17 PM   #15 
  - I still don't see how it is a few who determines what "serious" is.....  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:21 PM   #18 
     - So, you think that Randy Crow, Dan Francis, Karl Krueger, and  Freddie Stubbs   Jun-04-07 01:30 PM   #24 
        - Some of them might actually be better than anything our side's  Clark2008   Jun-04-07 01:33 PM   #26 
        - But we'll never know, will we?  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:40 PM   #30 
        - Well, I'm not into "extremes".....one way or another!  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:36 PM   #28 
  - This far out, the event won't matter any more than the single digit candidates anyway.  jobycom   Jun-04-07 01:21 PM   #19 
  - Yep, this is it: the only democracy we have left at work.  damntexdem   Jun-04-07 01:23 PM   #20 
  - DKos story that may interest others here  NewYorkerfromMass   Jun-04-07 01:31 PM   #25 
  - Very apropos! Thank you for this.........as it glaringly evident--Yet even "Dems" here deny this!  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:43 PM   #31 
  - Mike Gravel was initially not supposed to participate in the debates last night.....  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 01:49 PM   #33 
  - How enlightened...  Everybody   Jun-04-07 02:10 PM   #34 
  - We continue to have our candidates selected for us  OHdem10   Jun-04-07 02:16 PM   #35 
  - I will be pissed off at ANYONE that attends or any other media event  LiberalFighter   Jun-04-07 02:23 PM   #36 
  - Is there any reason to assume  frebrd   Jun-04-07 02:47 PM   #38 
  - It is unfair, but legal :(  skypuddle   Jun-04-07 04:05 PM   #39 
  - And I think in 1987, this was done away altogether...Network or not.....  FrenchieCat   Jun-04-07 04:22 PM   #41 
  - This is total bullshit, the MSM is just trying to choose for us..  bamacrat   Jun-04-07 04:19 PM   #40 
  - Lucky for the others...  polichick   Jun-04-07 04:35 PM   #42 
  - I ended up accidentally catching the end of this...  polichick   Jun-04-07 08:07 PM   #44 
  - CNN had Paula Zahn's show on the topic  MonkeyFunk   Jun-04-07 08:08 PM   #45 
  - I suspect this is more about what will "sell" than anything else  JerseygirlCT   Jun-04-07 08:09 PM   #46 
 

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