The loser of tonight's debate is...

...the Commission on Presidential Debates.  Hands down.  The loser.

That was the lamest 90 minutes of my life.  No one learned anything, except that politicians in conventional debates can say absolutely nothing and get away with it.  That, and America learned that Gwen Ifill is more entertaining than Tom Brokaw.

I have been saying since August that the Saddleback Forum was the most useful program for getting to know candidates on television that I have seen in my life.  After tonight, I am convinced that traditional debates are useless and future elections should utilize the Warren method.

The time has come to abolish the Commission.  Turn the final debate over to Rick Warren.  Please.

Comments

[Patrick Joubert Conlon]

Well, I'm still not sure what the point of the debates is.

[Yomi Mizuhara]

This much is true: McCain needs to slam Obama on the FMs and Democrats on the economy.

Until then, it's gonna be boring. Is the next debate a townhall, or a standard straight up debate. And is Bob Schieffer a fair guy, or is he a tankster?

[Gullyborg]

Standard/tankster.

And of course, there are no more VP events.

The "impartial" commission has stacked it against McCain.