These so-called presidential candidate “debates” really have torn at my ex-debate-coach heart. These have been merely childish, rude arguments and cut-downs. Any high school debate that was run this way would be suspended from the debate league until they came up to high school standards. If these fiascoes are going to be called “debates,” let them be carried out in the spirit and rule of actual debates, in which views on serious matters are discussed intelligently and the moderators maintain control toward that end. Otherwise they’re useless to us voters.