Candidates, forget the EU: Where do you stand on `The O.C.'?
By Beth Teitell
Thursday, November 6, 2003
With all due respect to the youthful questioners at Tuesday night's CNN/Rock the Vote debate, I'm not sure we learned much about the candidates. I mean, really, who cares whether they prefer Macintosh computers or PCs? Or even whether they smoked pot?
Let's bring the Democratic contenders back to Boston and put some real questions to them:
Regarding cellphone calls, how do you feel about the fact that both the sender and the receiver have to pay?
Can you describe in detail the difference between the South Beach and Atkins diets, and have you tried the ``cauliflower mashed potatoes''?
Let's talk about privacy. Do you support expanding the ``Do Not Call'' list beyond telemarketers to include relatives and employers?
Here's a two-part question, and please be honest. Do you think Marc Jacobs' entire fall line of mod clothes will be marked down before Thanksgiving? And do you think the fashion industry's change in direction for spring - with flirty and feminine clothes - will speak to today's woman?
Have any of you experimented with watching ``The O.C.'' on Fox?
I'd like to see how you function under stress: Say you and your spouse are dining at the Olive Garden and there's one sip left in your glass of shiraz, when the waiter - without so much as an ``Are you still working on that?'' -swoops down and takes it away. What would you do?
Let's talk about corporate greed and ethics. Given how much time jurors are putting in on the larceny trial of former Tyco International CEO Dennis Kozlowski, is it fair that they didn't get to see the good parts of the video - specifically, the anatomically correct ice sculpture of Michelangelo's David that ``urinates'' vodka?
E-mail abuse has become a major problem in our society. With that in mind, do you think an e-mailed thank-you note counts, or must thanks be sent by so-called ``snail mail''?
There was a report out Tuesday that Martha Stewart was ``steaming'' over the fact that CBS yanked its Ronald Reagan miniseries for a reputed lack of balance, but did air an unflattering movie about her. I'm wondering if any of you think her feelings are justified?
And to follow up on the last question: Given the fact that the nation lacks a clear-cut scapegoat at the moment, if you were elected president, would you appoint the equivalent of a scapegoat laureate to focus the country's free-floating anger?
