Can I ask, who started this load of crap? These people are running for president and you want to limit their thought process to thirty seconds? Are you crazy?

Personally I think if you are running for president you shouldn’t be allowed to make any proposal or speak on any subject for less than ten minutes. If that issue involves global thermonuclear war, you should probably take a half an hour.

“Please solve the crisis in Iran in under thirty seconds GO!!!”

How do you answer that? Frankly the only way you can plausibly solve the problem of nuclear proliferation in thirty seconds or less is to say the following:

Answer: “I will change the laws of nature to make nuclear material non-fissionable.”

Here are some others:

Question: How will you solve the Healthcare crisis in America in thirty seconds or less?

Answer: I will outlaw sickness.

Question: How will you make America more competitive in Math and Science globally in thirty seconds or less?

Answer: I will change the discipline of science into the study of reality television and the discipline of Math into knowledge of Seinfeld trivia. America’s dominance will then be unrivaled!

Question: How will you solve racial intolerance in America in thirty seconds or less?

Answer: I will kill all white people and let minorities rule.

Question: How will you solve the nations energy crisis in thirty seconds or less?

Answer: I will invent a time machine, go back to the invention of electricity and kill Thomas Edison. I will then find and kill Henry Ford. Thereby removing the nations need for both oil and electricity. This action will also result in the end of Paris Hilton’s celebrity.

Any answer you can give to the Iranian crisis or Healthcare or any other topic in thirty seconds or less probably isn’t a good enough answer for the president of the United States. Listen up Tim Russert and Brian Williams, most of these issues are ones we’ve been debating for weeks, months, years, decades and centuries. Thirty seconds isn’t going to cover it.

The worst part about this thirty seconds or less format is that candidates are scolded for having too many ideas and too much information. They present the sharing of information as a sign of stupidity during these debates. When a candidate goes on too long the audience laughs at them and the moderators make them out to be idiots. MEANWHILE it takes the moderators two minutes to ask the damn question in the first place.

Sorry but that seems a little unfair to me. If you expect a thirty second answer you should be able to ask the question in fifteen seconds or less.

If I found out the president of the United States worked on any of these issues for thirty seconds or less and made a decision, I would raise a militia and head the advice of the Declaration of Independence.

What utter nonsense this format is.