To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Observercast

Hard Questions for Debating Democrats

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BY JOE CONASON Imagine for a moment that the purpose of a presidential debate is to elucidate policy differences on matters of concern to American voters — instead of engaging the leading Democrats in still more boring babble about Hillary Clinton’s email habits or Bernie Sanders’ socialist sympathies. What might a moderator ask, if she is seeking substance and happens to have done her homework? One urgent issue that has received too little attention — […]

Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.