Sunday, September 23, 2012
Karl Rove vs. James Carville: A Debate
Last week, I attended the political debate between Karl Rove and James Carville. While I realize that I am not a PSL scholar, as a college student of voting age I believe it was an important opportunity of which to take advantage. While neither of these men are candidates in a current election, they have both played important roles in national politics and presidential campaigns over the past years. Listening to what they had to say was informative and contained a surprising touch of humor. They both made very strong arguments for their contrasting points of view concerning the upcoming election and were encouraged by the audience throughout. At the end of the debate, they even answered questions that the students in the audience posted on Twitter with the hashtag #OUABdebate. It was an enlightening experience and I'm glad I was able to attend.
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I also attended this event with Cece. I thought it was a great event and I came away with a lot of gained knowledge from it. I thought it was beneficial that neither of the debaters were running for a political office because they were able to tell the crowd their honest opinions without trying to win anyone over.
ReplyDeleteI went to this. I found it hard not to question and fact check every other thing the debaters had to say... although that might be because I was in the middle of the college Republicans.
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