Originally Posted by guyy

Does it matter what you ask? These people are coached and rehearsed at blabbing about something without really accepting the premises of the discussion -- or, of course, answering the question. Not only that, but we've had a couple of mentally limited presidents that have been more or less unable to answer a lot of good questions. Over the past few decades, incompetence has somehow become acceptable.

That being the case, do you try to expose the candidates as poseurs and phonies, or do you earnestly plunge ahead and try to have a conversation?

It seems to me that these Q&A sessions with the candidates are spectacles of domination, in which popular language is ignored and/or re-processed in such a way as to make it appear that the politicians have mastered it. Kind of like a bullfight.