Presidential Debate Tonight

Posted on September 26, 2008 
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So it looks like John McCain has decided to in fact join Barack Obama for the first presidential debate tonight at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I think that it’s good that McCain is going to go to the debate, because it is difficult to have a presidential debate unless both of the candidates are there.

Most Americans seem to agree with that assessment. An AP-Knowledge Network poll found that 60% of the respondents wanted the debate to go on as planned and 22% felt that it should not, with the rest undecided.

Someone who is an office assistant working on a particular project may be asked to suddenly shift priorities and schedule an itinerary for an account executive who has a couple of fires to tend to in his or her region. The office assistant may have to finish the original project before leaving work for the day to meet a deadline, then pick her kids up from school after work, feed them, take them to a soccer game, and tend to her ailing mom after that, checking if her WaMu saving are still there on the way. We have all experienced the need to multi-task, and it is challenging, but that is the way that it is in the modern world.

Being technologically savvy helps us to multi-task, and most busy people with demanding schedules would find it impossible to be productive and do our jobs if we did not know how to use mobile technologies to maximize our time, especially while we are traveling on business. Presidents hold a pretty important executive position as far as I can tell, and domestic and world affairs are very unpredictable and take place across many different time zones. Being able to juggle shifting priorities while maintaining your schedule is one of the demands placed upon the chief executive of the United States. I am glad to see that the debate will go on as scheduled, because we need a president that is capable of handling the challenges that confront us, aided by the utilization of the technologies that enable us to multi-task effectively.

Now that the candidates have both announced that they will show up in Mississippi tonight, the onus is on us to watch it and participate in the process. It will take place at 9:00 p.m. EST (6:00 here in the west). The election is just over a month away, and we need to make an intelligent and informed decision. Seeing the candidates respond to questioning side by side should give us a clearer picture of who appears more prepared to be the next president.

           

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