Reader Reaction To The ABC Debate

I'll post some of the more interesting responses from readers. D.W:

..And that's why it was a bad debate. Obama definitely got flustered, but the questions were inconsequential and relatively easy, if you ask me; Obama was able to dismiss them as needless distractions (which they were) without ever having to be pressed on what type of president he would be, or what capacity he may or may not have for leading the free world. No direct questions about handling the mortgage crisis, no questions about handling a potential environmental crisis, no questions about China, nothing about Pakistan, on and on and on. You can ask difficult questions about these subjects, and make these candidates squirm, about stuff that matters, not just petty BS that really acts as nothing but high-fructose story fodder for political columnists and reporters writing process-oriented campaign stories. The questions last night were simply lazy, poorly written, of no consequence, and, in the end, just all too easy to dismiss for those two who may one day be leader of the free world. Voters deserved better; neither candidate was ever really challenged.