The so-called debate presented in Philadelphia this week consisting of moderators George Stephanopoulous and Charlie Gibson substituted what should have been a serious analysis of the major topics facing America and the globe and substituted frivolity and absurdity, reducing the issue of presidential politics to a laughable side show.

The major issues were the ones that were not tackled at all.

People throughout the world would like to know what will be done about a war of occupation launched on provable lies, chiefly that Saddam Hussein must be stopped before he can wage nuclear war on America with weapons he did not possess, and that according to the respected British journal Lancet has documented that over 1.2 million Iraqi lives have been lost.

How about the U.S. debt that exceeds the amount of all of our previous debts combined?  How about the largest debt in the history of the planet that now exceeds $9.3 trillion as it approaches an astronomical $10 trillion figure?