ONE has an exciting campaign to make the fight against global poverty a part of the presidential debates. Read on to find out how to get involved.
Two. Only two questions about global poverty have been asked in the history of modern presidential debates, going back to Kennedy-Nixon in 1960. That's less than 1% of all questions asked.
To change that shockingly low figure, ONE is launching a new campaign to get "Just ONE Question" about the fight against global poverty asked at the 2008 presidential debates.
The first debate at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi, will focus on foreign policy and is only 10 days away. It happens just one day after world leaders gather at the United Nations in New York for an emergency meeting on the Millennium Development Goals – the global pledge made in 2000 to halve extreme poverty and global disease by 2015.
Meeting those goals will require unprecedented U.S. leadership during the next eight years. For at least four of those years, John McCain or Barack Obama will be our president. It's up to us to make sure that the issues being discussed at the United Nations in New York are also being raised with Senators Obama and McCain at the debate in Mississippi. Take action now by sending a message to debate moderator Jim Lehrer. Click here and we'll send your message to Mr. Lehrer, urging him to ask Just ONE Question on the fight against global poverty.
The Oxford, MS topic was changed to Domestic & Economic Policy a few weeks ago...
Posted by: William E. Pearson III, Oxford, MS | 17 September 2008 at 06:42 PM