debates

Are you completely tired of all the debates held among the contenders for US President? I was after about the 4th debate. I stipped watching them, mostly because the so-called moderators turned the whole affair into another game show, or so it felt like that to me.

Kenneth Eaton wants to everyone to know that he ain’t yella:

1st District Congressman David Davis issued a challenge on his website to debate his opponents in the GOP primary. But not long after GOP candidate Phil Roe agreed to the challenge, Rep. Davis changed his mind. He refuses to participate in the June 24th debate and worse, he tried to even remove his challenge, originally from his website in '06. Bad move.

Sean Braisted takes issue with Clint Brewer on the strides Barack Obama can make in Tennessee by merely showing up in the state:

Andrew Sullivan is pondering aloud what many other early and prolific bloggers (I confess) are wondering these days: Are we losing our ability to read (and write) in the long-form.

Two quotes:

I was wondering if the NashPo blog was ever going to get to the fire that City Paper writer Richard Lawson has been taking (and long been deserving) for his minimizing stance on developers and for his jaded views of neighborhoods.

I concede these are my favorite stories this morning….

Detroit’s scandal–ridden mayor gets drowned out by boos at a downtown rally for the Stanley Cup champion Red Wings.

A prominent conservative activist declares the conservative movement dead:

Greg Siskind discusses the comprehensive vs. incrementalist approach to immigration reform: