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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 01:18 AM

  Can't stand it anymore!

  I want to apologize to all of you for the years I spent working to achieve equality for women in this country. At the same time, I want to apologize for all the years and the leadership positions I held in the League of Women Voters who instituted this concept of debates for those seeking the highest office in the land--and then threw it to the wolves in the BI-partisan Presidential Debate Commission to run!

  What used to be a real debate concept has turned into a circus since the League stopped running them. There are bizarre formats these days, no tough time limits, no moderators who INSIST the participants stick to the question or be penalized by having time to speak taken away from--heck, there's no one developing good questions to ask the candidates!!

  After watching the VP so-called debate last night, I confess to being so very, very ashamed to be one of the people who was complicit in helping to change society's attitudes and arcane laws so that this caricature of a feminist could think she's qualified to be in any high political position!

  That something which should be a boon to our democratic electoral process has become a thing from which comedy acts are developed.

  Sorry, folks. I've been playing computer games all evening to try to rid my mind of the last night but it hasn't worked. I had to let it out.

  Please, somebody, tell this old woman that you forgive me.....

  —greenholdt Read greenholdt's other letters
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