Following up on Shalini’s post below: Where the $#%! was the environment last night? I actually think Bob Schieffer did a decent job overall, but he found time to ask about gay marriage, strong women, and … the flu? Listen, I love marriage, and gay people, and strong women, and I don’t like the flu, and I don’t want strong married gay women in this country coughing and sniffling, but those are relatively peripheral issues, are they not, compared to mercury in our fish? Soot in our air? Shortages in our water supply? Oil and gas execs swarming over our public land like ants on a discarded Krispy Kreme?
Kerry wisely ignored the flu question and addressed health care squarely. Bush unwisely ignored jobs questions and talked about education — several times. And Bob Scheiffer unaccountably ignored one policy area about which majorities in this country consistently express concern, over which the executive branch has considerable control: the environment. A full debate transcript is here.
