Could Mr. Keyes be the ‘Obama’ running mate of the Republican contenders ?
Mr. Keyes is an articulate , educated , quality candidate. Would adding him to the ticket counter act the vote Obama may get from the minority community ? This could get real interesting !

Seems like the candidates try to condense their identities, ideas, and principles into 10 to 30 second sound bites with the luxury of 60 seconds made available to some within the context of an American “Debate” or paid commercial. This strikes me as “Old Fashioned” – pre internet – from the days when publicity and global exposure was expensive so that quick wit could be all that was needed for election.

I would like to see (via internet or through web conference) a real debate between candidates in pairs where positions that are held counter to each other are discussed and truly debated until completely expressed. It might mean each candidate gets 30 minutes to 1 hour, but the video would be helpful to understand differences and common ground between candidates.

Candidates who differ on defining topics would have popular webcast click counts on their video resulting in direct feed back to the candidates showing which issues / topics were important to the electorate.

Alan is as powerful a candidate as he is primarily because of his potential to dominate within a true debate venue. He has some videos posted on his http://www.alankeyes.com/ web site and I can view them whenever I want to help me understand his position. I would like to see Alan debate each of the other candidates in a full debate.

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