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I should have seen it coming when ABC News kept promoting its televised Democratic debate last night as "Clinton vs. Obama" -- like it was a prize fight! Boorish anchors Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos came out like hackneyed corner men, urging the candidates to bash and bloody each other with cheap entreaties on overwrought gossip and innuendo. About 50 minutes into the debate (I just happened to look up at the clock), I realized that not ONE substantive question had been asked on issues that matter to the American public. Where were the questions on jobs, trade agreements, education, the environment and a host of other issues that people wanted to hear about, and needed answers to, during the course of the 90-minute debate?

It seems like an awfully long time ago when these debates were hosted by the League of Women Voters. Back then, they were smart, sensible affairs that allowed the PEOPLE to vet the candidates, not the so-called journalists. Gibson, Stephanopolous and their handlers at ABC heaped great shame upon their profession last night. If this is how political debates are orchestrated these days, they no longer serve us.

Finally, I trust that the American people will have the sense to listen to the candidates that choose to discuss the ISSUES as opposed to those who can prop themselves up only if they sling enough mud.