Presidential debate was just beginning of joke
Editor:
I’d like to extend a challenge to the Statesman in the coming weeks with
regards to elections. I attended the presidential “debates” on Wednesday and
realized-more than ever-what a complete joke this process is.
The challenge I’d like to extend is that the Statesman put these candidates up
against the light, so to speak. I don’t mean dig up dirty laundry on them, but I’d like you to challenge these candidates on their ideas.
The candidates are doing what all individuals running for office do: blowing
smoke! But it’s the job of the Statesman-USU’s fourth estate-to make sure the ideas these candidates put forward are actually feasible and that the
candidates have a clue how to accomplish them.
For example, if getting an ATM and more movie rental machines in the TSC is
really the issue headlining your campaign, perhaps you’re a little under-qualified. Maybe I’m the only one who thinks these ideas are a ridiculous waste of time, but I’d like some sort of practical voice to ask this candidate why she thinks these are the important issues facing our campus. And while getting more student jobs and higher pay is a rich idea, where, precisely, does this candidate plan on getting the money for such an idea without raising tuition? The state Legislature hasn’t been very quick to give us more funding in past years, and I’m sure declining enrollment isn’t going to change their minds.
And by the way, memo to candidates: having made-out atop the A in-front of Old Main does not make you qualified to be school president.So, between all the vain handing out of t-shirts and cookies; between all the hoo-hawing of rounded up friends; between all the empty, pie-in-the-sky promises, I urge the Statesman to make these candidates really explain their positions, rather than them taking softball questions from their own roommates in the crowd.
And P.S. I’m sure with a little effort ASUSU could have dug up some PA
speakers and four microphones for those debates Wednesday. The bullhorns and
standing on coffee tables was a really lame idea.
Justin Siebenhaar