Letter: Citizens should be interested in the issues, not debating skills

Published: Friday, Oct. 5 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and with wife Ann wave toward the audience after the first presidential debate at the University of Denver, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver.

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There has been a lot of discussion about who won the recent debate — as though it were a sporting contest. Should we not be more interested in the issues and principles involved than in debating skills?

My feelings are that this is one of the most important decisions that we have ever made as a nation — whether to follow the pattern of the European countries or return to the principles and values of our Founding Fathers.

I don't know how George Washington would have fared in a debating contest, but the principles which he stood for, as our first president, have helped us endure.

Don S. Robertson

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Kent C. DeForrest

Provo, UT

joe5, they are fabrications because the numbers don't add up, because the half-dozen fact checkers I follow agree that he's talking out of both sides of his mouth, and because his words contradict what he has said before. So which Rmoney am More..

11:38 a.m. Oct. 5, 2012
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joe5

South Jordan, UT

Would the letter writer have the same sentiments is Obama had been declared the winner. I can't help but think this is sour grapes after the fact. Why wasn't this letter submitted prior to the debate when the winner was still More..

7:38 a.m. Oct. 5, 2012
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Kent C. DeForrest

Provo, UT

The media treated this debate as if it were the Academy Awards. Who had the best "performance"? Who cares who had the best performance. If this were the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, I would give Rmoney high marks. But I'd really More..

9:30 a.m. Oct. 5, 2012
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