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by BooMan
Tue Dec 16th, 2008 at 03:44:45 PM EST

It's cool that Obama took twice as many questions from schoolchildren today as he did from the press. Maybe we should make that a rule.

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The grade schooler's questions most certainly have more thought behind them than those from the corporate media.

Jesus, not one damn kid asked him about Blagojevich, Ayers, his smoking habit, terrorist fist bumps or any of the other very important things which will determine our country's future and fate.

They can kiss goodbye any hope of ever being a "purrfeshunal journamalist in thuh prezuhdenshal puhress pewl".

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

by MikeInOhio on Tue Dec 16th, 2008 at 05:54:10 PM EST

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I thought you were just ripping on the press until I went and read the story:

One child, who said a cousin was serving in Iraq, asked Obama about the troops overseas.
...
Another asked Obama what he would do to represent the efforts of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Those two questions alone show more intellectual engagement and knowledge of current affairs about real topics than the press corpse has been able to find in the last month.

This tells me that the reporters covering the political beat should be fired and replaced by grade schoolers. On the down side, we'd get a lot more stories about the horrors of extending school through the summers and unchecked power of teachers to give detentions. But on the plus side, those same stories would be a lot more relevant and interesting than the dreck we've been getting.

by nonynony on Tue Dec 16th, 2008 at 11:30:32 PM EST
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Without a doubt, the kids would ask lots better questions. So why shouldn't they get more answers?

by arcadesproject on Tue Dec 16th, 2008 at 05:57:04 PM EST

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