Prometheus 6

they were unfair to the viewer, not unfair to obama. if they'd split their time asking bullshit questions between obama and clinton i still would have been pissed.

Fair enough...true enough.

ABC was unfair to the viewing audience and to Obama. Asking Obama, for example, about his alleged relationship with the former Weatherman member Bill Ayers was nothing more than an attempt to smear him. How is sitting on the board of a community-based organization that Ayers also sat on indicative of a "relationship"? In any case, when Ayers was running around like a madman planting bombs Obama was 8 years old. Eight years old! 

I have argued here before that these "debates" are not debates at all. Having television program hosts or newspaper columnists asking questions of politicians, any questions at all, is not a debate. The current process is a travesty period.