The Hill News

Ever since televised debates became the focus of presidential campaigns, I’ve been bemused by how odd subjects, having nothing to do with the issues that should be guiding people’s choices, come front and center. Quemoy-Matsu in the Kennedy-Nixon debate; the metaphoric rape of Ms. Dukakis and the appropriateness of capital punishment (most people, beside candidate Dukakis, were for it). Now it seems to be the correctness of Gov. Perry’s condoning of HPV inoculations â€" as if, at a time when our economy is in dire straits, and we are in unnecessary and bankrupting wars, the use of inoculations for HPV is on anyone’s minds, except as a debate issue.

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