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March 4, 2008 at 09:52:15

NO TRIVIA LEFT BEHIND

by William Fisher Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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nstead, we were treated to such inconsequential distractions as the truly intellectually challenging colloquy about whether Senator Obama simply denounced the praise he got from Louis Farrakhan or both denounced and rejected it. (He chose the twofer.)

Someone once defined leadership as telling us not what we want to hear but what we need to hear. By that standard, the candidates, the debate hosts, and the media who reported the debates, have all been an embarrassing failure.

Don’t our voters deserve a lot better?

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William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East and elsewhere for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration and now writes on subjects ranging from human rights to foreign affairs for a number of newspapers ond online journals.