Why Was Lawrence Lessig Missing From the CNN Debate?

[ellenrr]

“Why are the insiders trying to keep me silent?” Lessig asked in a recent Politico Magazine piece in which he suggested that Democratic Party honchos are trying to stifle his campaign finance reform message. Lessig said that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has given him the cold shoulder despite his numerous pleas to participate in the primary process.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-is-lawrence-lessig-missing-from-tonights-cnn-debate

[RBInMaine]

1. Because a party draws lines as it should and he isn't qualified to hold the nation's highest office.

He is HIGHLY educated, VERY smart, a great person, and has done some great things is academia. BUT he has never held high elective office or high level government positions so therefore does not have the governing or executive experience necessary to be president.

[TexasTowelie]

2. If that's the standard

Carson, Fiorina or Trump don't qualify for the Republican debates either.

[RBInMaine]

4. This is the difference between us and the Republican Clown Car.

[Duckhunter935]

3. first I have read about that

as being a qualification


Qualifications for the Office of President

Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

[RBInMaine]

5. Oh please. We all know the strict constructionist REQUIREMENTS.Then there is the REALITY of the job.

Simply reading the constitutional requirements to us doesn't mean anything in REALITY. Technically, yes, ANY citizen 35 years old can run. I could run. That doesn't mean I'm PREPARED to be president. Please, let's be real.

[ellenrr]

6. yeah, you haven't heard about that as a qualification because it isn't.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. Who?

No, but seriously, you probably had to actually having polling somewhere actually have people mention you to get on stage. I haven't heard of Lessig moving the needle in any polls. He probably ranks right there with 'Sydney's Voluptuous Buttocks' in polling beyond the people who actually did get on stage.

[DemocraticWing]

8. Every college professor who runs for President gets to be in the debate?

Clear my schedule for 2028, I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring.

[davidpdx]

9. I like Lessig's ideas on campaign finance reform

Right now I am in the middle of his book Republic Lost. I believe campaign finance is a very important issue and needs to be solved, however I'm not sold on a candidate running on one single issue and then stepping down.

In my opinion, (and this is nothing personal against any of them) I don't think he, nor Chaffee or Webb should be on the stage.

[FSogol]

10. He was missing because he didn't deserve to be there. He's a vanity candidate. n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

11. I lost respect for him over this to some extent. Larry is asking me to vote for him as a Temp who

will resign upon completion of one single objective. He has not bothered to present the pig in a poke he would run as 'VP' who would be already set to be President. If his 'plan' is to run only to quit, his VP is of total importance. Why didn't he understand that?