Jill Stein’s arrest yesterday trying to crash the Presidential debate at Hofstra University caused me to reshuffle the clips from our interview. If you watch footage from last nights debate, particularly the parts about women, where Governor Romney got into talking about binders, remember that there were two women who are on the ballot as candidates in over 80% of the states who were in cuffs not far from the debate site. This is the final clip that I am posting and it may be the last post in this series.
Some of the feedback, that I have gotten on this site and seen on other sites seems to imply that people think I was taking a position contrary to or in agreement with Dr. Stein’s. This may well reflect on my modest skills as an interviewer. My plan was to have an interview not a debate. In this segment Dr. Stein addresses defense and the health elements of the Green New Deal. If you want to accuse me of lapsing into debate this would be the piece to do it on.
I had not planned on asking Dr. Stein about Green Party foreign policy, but her blithe assumption that we can pay for the Green New Deal by cutting the defense budget in half left me a bit skeptical. Generally when people come up with round numbers like that I get skeptical. I don’t think I will go into it further. If you watched the clip you now know that I am not much of a defense analyst.
I was pleased that she was not enthusiastic about the junk food tax although I would have been satisfied with a Mountain Dew exception.
I greatly appreciated Dr. Stein taking the time to be interviewed by me and her forthright answers to question of which she had no advance notice. If you have an hour to spare, here is the entire interview.
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Originally published on Forbes.com Oct 17th, 2012