\u201cWe created the civil forums to promote civility and personal respect between people with major differences,\u201d Warren said. \u201cThe forums are meant to be a place where people of goodwill can seriously disagree on significant issues without being disagreeable or resorting to personal attack and name-calling. But that is not the climate of today\u2019s campaign. I\u2019ve never seen more irresponsible personal attacks, mean-spirited slander, and flat-out dishonest attack ads, and I don\u2019t expect that tone to change before the election\u2026It would be hypocritical to pretend civility for one evening only to have the name-calling return the next day,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Four years ago Saddleback held a forum with the two major candidates that was praised as fresh new alternative to the joint press conferences that debates have turned into. This year they had another planned but they pulled the plug. Warren said, \u201cWe created the civil forums to promote civility and personal respect between people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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