I am the first and the last woman to moderate a presidential debate during a general-election campaign. That was in 1992. Twenty years ago.
I was shocked when reminded of this fact by three teenage girls from New Jersey. Sammi Siegel, who’s 15, and Elena Tsemberis and Emma Axelrod, both 16, started a campaign to petition the Bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates to pick a female moderator for at least one of the three presidential debates scheduled for this October. Debates are often decisive in who becomes president, since it’s a chance for voters to hear the candidates state their positions on the issues and discuss solutions for the future.
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Moderator? We need a woman CANDIDATE! And we have one: Jill Stein, Green Party. The candidate that is unbought and unbossed, that believes taking care of the society and the environment leads to a good economy as well. But the Republicrats don't want to let in a third party candidate, lest they lose votes -- from people who are following their conscience and voting for what they want, for a change, rather than for the lesser of two evils. Goes to show you how little progress women have made, that we only aspire to ask the questions, and not to be the ones providing the answers.