Letter Sent on 10/6/96 to MSNBC in response to its post-debate survey to assess which candidate "won"

This is Caryn Shalita (caryn@caryn.com) using someone else's mailer.

I would have filled out your debate survey, but the questions were simplistic, verging on stupid. It is rare that anyone "wins" a debate, although it is often that someone "loses". How about asking relevant questions--like who came off sounding like a petty, old coot who had been told by his handlers to be friendly and funny, and who kept to the same plan that what's happening is working, because, after all, he was the one in charge for the last four years?

Here's my opinion--that didn't fit in your survey-- of the debates, an opinion I suspect similar to many of those held by the cyberian twenty-somethings that stop by msnbc from time to time.

All I could think of while looking at Clinton....

He tried to stay on the issues...but kept saying that his solutions were working. I winced at V-chip and damned him again for being so damn ignorant as to actually support the Telecomm Bill.

All I could think of while looking at Dole...

He also tried to stay on the issues--as he sees them--which is through a generalized, simplistic view of the world, which might have worked for Bob Dole back in Bob Dole's hometown of wherever when he was young, but hardly fit in today's modern society, which asks for complex choices to be made daily. Bob Dole, striving for the epitome of hip, sounded so uncomfortable reciting his web address, as if he had obviously been coached on it repeatedly. It really drove home the point that Bob Dole probably has no clue how to access his own web page, and as such, has no business attempting to lead this country into the digital age.

Not that I'm sure that Clinton has ever been by whitehouse.gov...but at least I can rest assured that Mr. Gore is aware of rec.music.gdead.

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