No Sport of Kings: How the Questioners Featured in Last Night's Debate Feel Now

Huffingon Post:

Jordan Williams was watching the debate with his mother and began jumping up and down when his video came on, and the candidates all turned their heads toward him. It asked how Obama or Clinton would reply to critics who charge that "one is not authentically black enough, or the other is not satisfactorily feminine." Williams felt the candidates basically blew him off.

"Much to my chagrin, I felt Senator Clinton just cut off the fact that she's a woman, instead of answering it." He felt Obama "made a nice little joke..." (that taxi drivers in New York City seem to know he was black) "but didn't answer it in the least." Overall? "I was pretty disappointed by both of them."

CNN, which had exclusive control over which questions got asked in last night's co-production with YouTube, had a Kucinich supporter ask Dennis Kucinich a Kucinich question. It asked another questioner to re-shoot his video to make it 27seconds long. YouTube flew ten top contributors to Charleston, but none knew if their questions would make it on air. Some did, most didn't. Meanwhile, others were watching at home hoping to see themselves and doubting it would ever happen. But then it did.

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