YouTube debate questions? That's freaking cool

Have you guys seen the news that CNN is going to host a debate where presidential candidates will be forced to evade amateur, softball questions posed by YouTube users?

More than 2,000 video questions have been submitted, representing a cross-section of issues and coming from as far away as Spain, Panama and Chad.

CNN editors, including tonight’s debate moderator, CNN host Anderson Cooper, will select as many as four dozen to air in the two-hour broadcast from Charleston, S.C. But the submissions, which must be 30 seconds or less, can be viewed at Youtube.com.

That’s a pretty sweet debate idea. Bringing the debate back to the masses instead of having some boring, pre-arranged posing contest where candidates spend too much time thanking the host for such an excellent question. Let’s have some stupid questions, so they can skip that part and go straight to the answer!