Last Straw

Demo­cracy Now’s Juan Gonza­lez:

The Obama and McCain cam­paigns jointly nego­ti­ated a detailed con­tract dic­tat­ing the terms of all the 2008 debates. This includes who gets to par­ti­cip­ate as well as the top­ics raised dur­ing the debates. But the con­tract remains secret and the Com­mis­sion on Pres­id­en­tial Debates, a private cor­por­a­tion cre­ated by the two major parties, has refused to release the con­tract to the public.

Another feather in the cap of U.S. “democracy.”