"For all intents and purposes, the debate has ended," said Representative Byron Rushing, a Boston Democrat and the assistant majority leader.
The demonization of crazed shooters can serve a political purpose: personalizing the debate engages the public and enables politicians to face down the gun lobby.
Last fall, he told the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that he doesn't think the minimum wage "serves a purpose" because the debate becomes "what the lowest levels are at.
"It's a private event, we're a private sponsor," Ms. Brown said, and in any case, "The purpose of the debate is for the television audience at home, not for the rather small number of people in the hall who are there to represent the host institutions that made this happen".
"The purpose of the debate last week was to try to create some impetus for the banks to start renegotiating these mortgages in a positive way and the industry fought it," Durbin, who last week concluded banks "frankly own the place," told the Huffington Post.
This defeats the purpose of the debate, and as an organizer you should strive for the best results a debate can have.
Bolded text is inserted to highlight an important moment for the purposes of the debate over the debate: Here's where Obama — or his speechwriter — might have inserted the fact that it was a terrorist attack.
Organize a debate around the following question: "Should the museum return the culturally significant meteorite to the Clackamas, or should the Clackamas allow the museum to display it for educational purposes?" After the debate's conclusion, analyze the actual agreement made by the museum and tribal group over the meteorite's usage (//www.amnh.org/rose/meteorite_agreement.html).html
It is, however, quite common to assume that our intuitive understanding of "physical knowledge" in the broad sense at issue is clear enough for the purposes of the debate, though some argue that talk of "physical facts" needs clarification (see Alter 1998).
The purpose of the debates is to let the people see and hear the candidates, so that they can make a choice.
