Maybe it’s better that Cynthia McKinney (or Bob Barr) aren’t part of such a corporate bribery clusterfuck as this, the list of Fortune 500-level sponsors The Commission on Presidential Debates, the “window dressing” of the Republicrats, has lined up:
• Anheuser-Busch? Given Cindy McCain’s A-B distributorship, isn’t there a HUGE conflict of interest on this ?
• BBH New York: The U.S. branch of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, a British advertising agency. Any advertising agency sponsoring a presidential debate is suspect.
• EDS. Given that EDS has been bought by Hewlett-Packard, former jobsite of John McCain campaign advisor Carly Fiorina, another conflict of interest, isn’t it?
Meanwhile, from the third-party perspective, here’s more of what’s wrong with the current debate structure.
If you want to see how the two-party duopoly hammer out Memoranda of Understanding, part of a quadrennial attempt to exclude certain issues from debate, read about how this process is “gamed” from the word go.
And, if you want to try to change the process, click here for Open Debates’ online petition.
Finally, it’s arguable that the Commission on Presidential Debates violates Section 501(c)(3) of IRS code.
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