The Steamboat Institute, a think tank in lovely Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and my alma mater, The Virginia Military Institute (a jewel of a school in the spectacular Shenandoah Valley of Virginia) teamed up to debate:
If you highlight and click on the first sentence of the question, you can see a video of the debate between John Bolton and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Bolton is an old school, mustached, neo-con stalwart with more than three decades in the national security racket and a stint as US Ambassador to the United Nations. He sat at the tables at which some of the world’s most substantial national security conversations took place.
Vivek Ramaswamy is a brilliant young man — pianist, tennis player, lawyer, venture capitalist, entrepreneur — with a budding promise of greatness who sought out the Republican nomination for President unsuccessfully. He is someone to watch and is a likely Trump Cabinet officer.
Yes, the debate, dear reader, was 90 minutes and provided a thoughtful, respectful, and bloody civil discussion of competing views.
I mention this because the sham “debates” undertaken in this presidential election campaign are worthless and without any real useful purpose.
OK, here it is. We can do some much better on the debate venue for President. This debate shows how two modestly contentious men can debate a serious subject with civility and leave the audience better educated for the exercise.
Those presidential debates with ABC and CNN are stupid, without substance, biased, and leave us all more stupid.
But, hey, what the Hell do I really know anyway? I’m just a Big Red Car. Vote early and vote often.
