Something You'll Never See on YouTube: A Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate Series

[CorpGovActivist]

Oh, to have a time machine and a camcorder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_douglas_debates

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No planted questions.

Agreed-upon debate format.

Equal time over the series.

No Wolf Blitzer.

- Dave

[Blackhatjack]

1. I think you are right --Corporate Entities Cannot Allow That. n/t

[patrice]

2. I think these should become a national hobby.

Like square dancing or model trains.

People have stuff they WANT to say. It would be good for everyone to encourage that in a civil manner. Thus also, we would not be sooooooo dependent upon our "leaders" to do our thinking for us.

[CorpGovActivist]

3. Cool Idea! n/t

[patrice]

4. Lincoln - Douglas is a less intimidating format.

Shorter too. People would be more comfortable with giving it a try. You could have tournaments, change topics, have a wild-card topic. The audience could decide the criteria by survey and vote on the "winner". The grassroots could be concretely modeling (face-to-face) to one another HOW to disagree, instead of the BS that the media is feeding us.

(I used to be an assistant highschool debate coach.)

[CorpGovActivist]

5. Bet You Drew a Lot of Kids out of Their Shells, Too...

... funny how the quiet ones can surprise you.

: )

- Dave

[patrice]

6. That's the other part of it! People find one another.

AND Listeners like it too.

[CorpGovActivist]

7. Still an Educator?

Inspiring teachers rock!

: )

- Dave

[patrice]

8. I'm in community education now with a non-profit in the Long-term Care milieu.

www.gerti.info

Our mission is Person Centered Care, which I recognized immediately as being related to Student Centered Curriculum. We serve the professional educational needs of all levels of long-term care staff, with special focus on non-licensed staff, especially in regards to retention.

My boss, the director of GERTI, is a proponent of this school of thought on the issues surrounding long-term care http://www.ncbcapitalimpact.org/default.aspx?id=146

[CorpGovActivist]

9. Very cool!

What a cool career transition.

- Dave

[patrice]

10. I love work that I can care about.

I've been seeing up-close and personal what Elder-care does to family, in the best and in the worst of circumstances ($$$+ and $$$-) and, in neither instance is it necessarily all that good for anyone. We CAN do better.

[CorpGovActivist]

11. The Requirement to Spend down Resources...

... is going to become a MAJOR campaign issue by 2012.

Lots of baby boomers were astonished to see what they had to do to get their parents into good care.

- Dave

[patrice]

13. So do you see some version of "health savings accounts"

on the horizon of that issue?

[CorpGovActivist]

17. That's a Part...

... of the solution.

First, I think a lot a boomer-centric financial advisors will spend time marketing tried and true methods to protect their own resources for their kids.

Second, I think we'll see boomers push for expanding the circumstances under which they can be included in their adult working kids' group policies.

Third, I see more LTC policies being offered in the workplace.

Boomers who were burned by the lack of info with regard to their own parents' care will create a huge market demand for these changes, and more, to ensure that their own kids don't face the same "squeezed generation" problems.

- Dave

[hootinholler]

12. Political karaoke?

Or more along the poetry slam model?

-Hoot

[patrice]

14. That could be up to the audience. nt

[Subdivisions]

16. According to 404 Congress members, we ARE dependent on

our "leaders" to do our thinking for us.

To wit: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2305406&mesg_id=2305406

[madrchsod]

15. do you think any of today`s candidates

would stand a chance against Lincoln or Douglas in a debate?.. by scrolling down this first debate i think todays canidates would`t stand a chance in hell. this form of real debate is a long lost art,in the the sound bite world of today no one would listen....it`s all about the ratings

http://www.nps.gov/archive/liho/debate1.htm
First Debate