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From: William Corpora [mailto:billcorpora@gmail.com]
Posted At: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:25 PM
Posted To: Letters to the Editor
Conversation: Debate was a missed opportunity for voters
Subject: Debate was a missed opportunity for voters

Hi,

Colleen Campbell got it exactly right in her article, “Debate was a missed opportunity for voters”. I recently saw some tape of Dwight D. Eisenhower. On the tape he was addressing some issue, and essentially said the American public is going to have to trust me, and for what it is worth they did.

The trust issue comes through loud and clear to me every time I go to the polls to vote for any one. I would like to vote for someone that has roughly the same mindset on sensitive issues that I have. This is best discovered by past track records of saying what one will do, and then doing that, or at least a close variant of it. That is how trust is established. The candidates wanted a “town meeting” format in word only. I know what town meeting look like, and far more often than not they are attended by folks that are not reading from cards to ask there question, because they already the issues at hand, and want resolution or to know what will be done. Obama and McCain set it up so that wasn’t going to happen. The last thing they wanted was to be asked pointed question by folks that weren’t shy because of their star power. What a town meeting format was to get a feel of the human beings that are going to represent them. McCain and Obama are not going for any of that.

Let’s keep this campaign to useless sound bites.

Bill Corpora
St. Louis