Just hours before the two US presidential hopefuls square off for their third and final debate, Wall Street suffered one of its worst losses in a single trading day, with the Dow falling 733 points, most coming in the final hour of trading. After Monday’s record breaking rebound, today’s losses reminded people that the economy continues to be the main focal point of this year’s elections.
Democratic nominee Barack Obama currently enjoys a lead in nationwide opinion polls and is ahead in many of the key battleground states. In this debate, the American public will surely be hungry for specifics from the two candidates on how they plan to solve this crisis and avert a 1930s Great Depression-like meltdown.
Four years ago, opposition presidential candidate the late Fernando Poe Jr. backed out from joining any debates. President Arroyo, sensing it was no use being on those debates without her closest rival anyway, decided not to participate as well.
I believe people have the right to see whoever plans to occupy the highest office in the land to at least participate in these healthy exchanges so that they would have a better understanding of the people who would lead them. Nobody said a president has to be a rocket scientist but at least someone who can show that he or she is capable of handling the pressure of a debate.
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