Hats off to those Republican candidates who were willing to venture into the treacherous territory of CNN (“Battling the Past,” Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, Nov. 29).
I didn’t watch the whole debate because it was obvious that it wasn’t going to be a fair outlet for the Republicans.
Only after the debate did I learn that Keith Kerr, a retired Army general who submitted a question about gays in the military, is a member of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s campaign.
Not only is Clinton inserting questions in her own debates and rallies, but she’s doing the same in others.
I wonder how many plants she has sent to Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign meetings. Heaven help us if she gets elected.
Frank White
West Chester, Ohio
The dumbing down of America continues.
Candidates, who surely have better things to do than waste their time with trivia and nonsense, fielded questions from ill-dressed, offbeat, humor-focused “everyday” Americans.
Although some of the questions were interesting, valuable and posed cleverly, many were pure fluff.
It is regrettable that the political process has degenerated not only into a perpetual cycle that is bound to turn most away with disgust but also into one that demeans and degrades the process and is an insult to the intelligent voter.
If YouTube and its “stars” are now to dominate the process, then the process will have collapsed into slop.
Oren M. Spiegler
Upper Saint Clair, Pa.