Let's Have a Nationally Televised Healthcare Debate!
While we've spent the last few months generating lots of angry heat over healthcare reform pro-and-con, we've spent more time focusing on firearms, death panels, green protein biscuits made from old people, and Obama's Hitler moustache. We've been subjected to a blizzard of fear/hate angry commercials lobbed like artillery from one side to the other. What we HAVEN'T seen is a side-by-side, real-time comparison of the pros and cons of healthcare reform. The premise of this petition is simple: A "DEBATE" ISN'T A DEBATE WITHOUT A DEBATE. We intend to present this petition to the President, to Congress, and to all the media outlets on cable and broadcast DEMANDING AN ACTUAL LIVE NATIONALLY TELEVISED CONVERSATION ON HEALTHCARE REFORM. Will you sign? Let's stop the nonsense and start making intelligent choices for our future!
We, the undersigned, call upon the President and the Congress to endorse a nationally televised debate (or series of debates) on the subject of healthcare reform, giving the American people the opportunity for a side-by-side comparison of the options presented by the major parties to this debate, pro-and-con. We further call upon the national news media, charged occasionally with providing the public service function mandated in their licensure responsibilities by the Federal Communications Commission, to perform this service to the nation at this critical time.If--as all parties to this pivotal debate seem to concur--the decisions we make in the next few weeks could have lasting consequences for the American people and future generations, we the people deserve and demand the opportunity to have a clear and unbiased presentation of the choice we face.
This petition will be circulated--along with a list of written petitioners' names--simultaneously to the above petitioned parties.
Sincerely,
The Petition Signatories
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