10 Questions That Could Have Actually Made The First CNN-YouTube Debate Interesting

July 25, 2007 | by Jefferson | Filed Under Video, Websites, Politics |

A couple nights ago, CNN hosted the first ever YouTube-tastic Democratic presidential debate, which asked candidates to respond to questions that had been submitted by YouTube users. It sounded like a great idea, but when the show finally aired, it wasn’t very different from all the other lame debates that have been held so far. Sure, there was some comic relief from a snowman and some hicks, but the rest of the debate was the same old boring questions with candidates giving vague and useless answers.

Why did they even bother selecting serious-sounding questions? We here at Who-Sucks.com believe that all such debates are nothing more than a terribly unfunny joke. Perhaps if CNN had used some of these 10 hilarious rejected submissions, the debates might have actually been worth watching on some level:

1. Mental Problems: This guy has a question about our mental health system:

2. Batman Harasses Hillary: Har har har, this guy has a camera and an action figure:

3. Take off your chicken costume: I can’t hear you.

4. Man Boobs: This shirtless guy has a very important question.

5. Masked Man: “I call myself the anonymous American. I am wearing this mask so I can creep out everyone who watches this video.”

6. Satan: Why is he asking questions?

7. STD Crab: Some fat-handed person really wants to know what the candidates will do about STD’s, so much so that he/she is willing to make this crabby video:

8. Who are you people? This guy hasn’t bothered to find out anything about the candidates, so he wanted them to spend time at a debate telling him: