Marital, personal ties link Obama admin. to Commission on Presidential Debates?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/08/23 11:42:35

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The moderator of the lone October vice presidential debate was previously married to a top Obama official, an association both ABC News and the left-leaning Commission on Presidential Debates do not view as a conflict of interest.

ABC Senior Foreign Correspondent Martha Raddatz, whose role as moderator was announced on August 13, was previously married to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski — an Obama appointee.

Genachowki and Raddatz were married in 1991, the same year he graduated from Harvard Law School. Their marriage ended in 1997; the two have a son together. Raddatz does not report on the FCC for ABC News.

Genachowski and classmate Barack Obama worked together on the Harvard Law Review, Genachowski as notes editor and Obama as the publication’s president. They graduated in the same class.

ABC did not consider the disclosure of Raddatz’s ties to an Obama appointee necessary when it issued a press release announcing that the Commission on Presidential Debates had selected her to moderate the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican nominee Rep. Paul Ryan.

Rebel Yell 2012/08/23 14:55:40

For some odd reason, people tend to believe there must be a winner in these debates. The purpse is for each person to lay out his party's platform with as much clarity as possible. The questions for the moderator are predetermined and the politicians know which topics will be covered ( foreign policy, immigration, etc). It is the moderator's job to keep the debators focused and with a time frame.

During the Republican debates, that did not happen. Bachmann veered off on wild tangents and Gingrich focused on ridiculing the moderators and self posturing. I don't know anything about Raddatz, but I hope she will not allow that to happen.

Her back story means nothing to me.

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Seonag 2012/08/23 14:53:52

+1
CONFLICT of interest. But then look at the entire group! All left-wingers!

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