During my book club gathering this week the idea hit me that in addition to the series of presidential candidate debates we have for the 2008 USA presidential election some entity -- perhaps Oprah's Book Club (http://www.oprah.com/books/books_landing.jhtml) or the American Booksellers Association (www.bookweb.org) -- should sponsor a "presidential candidate book club session".
A very simple proposal here -- the sponsoring organization should select one book that all the participating candidates would read and then discuss on live television just like my book club. Interested citizens would know which book was selected so us common folk could read the selection to follow along.
Now such a format would no doubt supply some real insights to how our candidates process information and interpret literature thereby providing us with much more than the sound bites we often see in the official debates.
Books are timeless while candidates come and go.
Todd
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