The Glittering Eye’s Dave Schuler is one of the most thoughtful writers in the blogosphere (or as skippy would say in the word skippy invented, blogtopia…). And unlike an increasingly large number of Americans and bloggers, he remains undecided on who he wants for President.
Meanwhile, Schuler — like many Americans — craves for a SERIOUS discussion of SERIOUS issues in campaign 2008, without the typical talk show and blog polemics. So he’s hoping to host a serious discussion among weblog writers. Here’s part of what he proposes:
This Tuesday the election will just be four short weeks away. As an explication of my dissatisfaction, an indication of the yardstick against which I’m judging the candidates, and in the hope of starting a substantive discussion of issues in the blogosphere, over the next few days I plan to post a number of explorations of the issues before us. Here’s my planned schedule
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Foreign policy
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Fiscal policy
Thursday, October 9, 2008 Economic policy
Friday, October 10, 2008 Health care
Saturday, October 11, 2008 Energy policy
Monday, October 13, 2008 ConclusionI also plan to solicit contributions from bloggers with a variety of political persuasions; I’m hoping to ignite a cross-blog conversation about the issues. Feel free to pitch in on your own blogs and drop a note in the comments here—I’ll link to all reasonable contributions to the discussion.
Please make your contributions substantive and positive. Not just the regular talking points.
Read his post in full — and participate if you think a campaign should be more than suggesting that someone who you don’t agree with is a closet terrorist who is a danger to America or is an emotional loose-cannon who is a danger to America. Dave wants i-s-s-u-e-s to be discussed. You know: those things that don’t get ratings on most shout-fest talk shows….
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.