I have an idea for future Presidential Debates

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:33 pm

I noticed a lot of people mentioning that supporters on both sides believed things that simply weren't true, and that they believed them because of what their campaigns told them.

So here's what I suggest. Next debate, instead of using stupid little lights to tell me how time is left in any particular non-answer, we use those lights for a real purpose.

Show the green light when the candidate is listing information that's true. Show the yellow light when the candidate is stretching the truth. And flash the red light when he's outright lying.

We can also flash "LIAR!" on the screen when a lie is detected.

Can I get any support for this?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:35 pm

Or we could get rid of the traditional debate mold and ask real questions and make them sit there until they give a real answer. We could even make it like Millioniare where they get lifelines.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:37 pm

And set up a 900 number so the national audience can *VOTE* the presidential hopeful off the ballot (at a mere $.99 per vote). Our America needs to blend reality programming with our elective capabilities...

~Neal

Kadoth Nodens · Post by **Kadoth Nodens** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:39 pm

Lets make it entertaining. Liars get spanked by hot chicks.

They get barehanded smacks for using stats that are technically true, but misleading, and paddled with a board for out-and-out lies.

If you manage to get through the debate without lying at all, you get to spank the hot chicks or your opponent.

Kadoth Nodens · Post by **Kadoth Nodens** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:40 pm

oh, and we need cooler moderators (for the debates, not here). Like pro wrestlers or wookies.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:47 pm

There is a shot in an old sf movie -- 2001 A Space Odyssey, IIRC -- in which a politician is giving a speech while captions on the screen correct his statistics and give labels like "Speculation" and "Untruth" in real time. Maybe in a few more years, speech recognition + AI + the internet will make it possible.

Mr. Fed · Post by **Mr. Fed** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:59 pm

Lights? Bah. Lights are for wimps. What you need is for the candidates to have electrodes attached to their genitals and hooked to a monitoring system and power souce. For each second that they proceed without directly answering the question before them, the juice would get turned up. Only the truly determined would be able to dissemble for long. And it should cut back on sex scandals.

dangerballs · Post by **dangerballs** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:59 pm

Ironrod wrote:There is a shot in an old sf movie -- 2001 A Space Odyssey, IIRC -- in which a politician is giving a speech while captions on the screen correct his statistics and give labels like "Speculation" and "Untruth" in real time. Maybe in a few more years, speech recognition + AI + the internet will make it possible.

Or you could just have color commentators that give play-by-play assessment of the debate.

Trent Steel · Post by **Trent Steel** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:02 pm

If someone could ever figure out a way to make a fantasy league out of politics...

Or hot chicks. Use hot chicks.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:04 pm

Mr. Fed wrote:Lights? Bah. Lights are for wimps. What you need is for the candidates to have electrodes attached to their genitals and hooked to a monitoring system and power souce. For each second that they proceed without directly answering the question before them, the juice would get turned up. Only the truly determined would be able to dissemble for long. And it should cut back on sex scandals.

Even better, simmilar to one from a Doctor Who episode, is to set up every television with a voting system, and after each question is answered, the population gets to vote on who is zapped. Power to the people!

rrmorton · Post by **rrmorton** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:03 pm

Great idea, RunningMan.

And I don't know what movie that was, but it weren't 2001.