Dear Jon,
Two. Only two questions about global poverty have been asked in the history
of modern presidential debates, going back to Kennedy-Nixon in 1960. That's less
than 1% of all questions asked.
To change that shockingly low figure, ONE is launching a new campaign to get
"Just ONE Question" about the fight against global poverty asked at the 2008 presidential
debates.
The first debate at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi, will
focus on foreign policy and is only 10 days away. Take action now by sending the
message below to debate moderator Jim Lehrer. Click the link and we'll send your
message to Mr. Lehrer, urging him to ask Just ONE Question on the fight against global
poverty.
http://www.one.org/debates/o.pl?id=562-3700484-HaTK84x&t=2
At the presidential debate, please ask John McCain and Barack Obama
just ONE question about their plans to fight global poverty.
This first debate will happen just one day after world leaders gather at the United
Nations in New York for an emergency meeting on the Millennium Development Goals
– the global pledge made in 2000 to halve extreme poverty and global disease by 2015.
Meeting those goals will require unprecedented U.S. leadership during the next
eight years. For at least four of those years, John McCain or Barack Obama will
be our president. It's up to us to make sure that the issues being discussed at
the United Nations in New York are also being raised with Senators Obama and McCain
at the debate in Mississippi.
We can't afford to have another presidential debate that ignores extreme poverty
and global disease. Please ask Jim Lehrer for Just ONE Question on global poverty,
and we'll deliver your message to him next week, right when he's sitting down
to decide what he'll ask the next President of the United States:
http://www.one.org/debates/o.pl?id=562-3700484-HaTK84x&t=3
Thank you for your voice,
Josh Peck, ONE.org
