V.P. Debates Review

On March 18, the vice president candidates faced off in the little theater. Topics in debate ranged from the War on Terror to the rising concern over global warming and climate change.
Senator Bodily, the Republican nominee, received the first question from moderator Olsen on the War on Terror. Bodily answered Olsen by saying that his main problem with the war now is that there is a deadline, seemingly confusing the War on Terror and the War in Iraq. The Democratic nominee, Jessie Du Pre, continued with them of the Iraq war saying that “...regardless of the military deaths, we shouldn't force democracy on people”.
Olsen followed the trend that Bodily set and asked the candidates if they thought that the we were justified in going into Iraq. Senator Bodily responded first again, asserting that it doesn't matter why we went into Iraq and that we should remain there, but should focus more of our efforts in Afghanistan, while Du Pre simply retorted that it was not justified.
In a segue from the topic of Iraq, Olsen poses the question of troop withdrawal from Iraq. Senator Du Pre states that we should pull out immediately and passes the buck. Bodily proposes the use of benchmarks, also pushing for putting continual pressure on suspected terrorist groups, “...or else they will strike out at us”.
Next on Olsen's list was how the nominee's plan to combat terror, and whether or not they were in favor of enhanced interrogation. Du Pre vehemently condemns the act of enhanced interrogation, even on highly suspect components, yet she endorses the use of wire tapping of American citizens. Bodily, on the other hand, called for enhanced interrogation with the single reservation of “making sure that it doesn't get out of control” which seemed to be Bodily's mantra throughout the debate. He also condones the use of water boarding, as long as again, “things don't get out of control”.
Olsen then led the debate to extraordinary rendition, asking the views of nominee's on military justice in regards to P.O.W.'s. Bodily calls for the continuation of the actions at Guantanamo Bay and that we should keep all of the those prisoners that we capture. Du pre argues that humans are still human and that all of those suspected terrorist should be given a civil trial, even though they are not a citizen of this country and have been accused of committing crimes equal to that of treason.
There was then a barrage of questions from the audience which seemed to fluster both nominee's, even bringing senator Bodily to silence. After the question period, Moderator Olsen regained control to pose a final question of their views on global warming and climate change to the senator's. At this point, the bell to dismiss the students had rung, both senators answering in a quick short burst. Bodily proclaims that he believes solely in climate change, but that there simply isn't enough data to conclusively decide that we should be worried about a “global warming”. Du Pre says that no matter what is happening in the climate right now, we should move towards alternative fuel sources to lower all around costs.