As per our assignment in Advocacy Classes this week, I created a video of myself asking a question to the Democratic candidate, for Monday’s CNN-YouTube debate. I must say I wasn’t especially pleased with the result - in order to conform to the 30-second time limit, the staff had to clip a good chunk of the film, which made it disconnected - and the sound was weird and I hate listening to my own voice anyway. (It has a somewhat whiny intonation that I never notice when I speak) Still, anyone who’s interested in wht I was saying might like to know where I came up with the question, which is why I created this page.

The original text of the question was: “Hi, my name is Conor Dinan and I live in Northern Virginia. My question is about the rise of China. Chinese aid and diplomatic support have allowed the government of Sudan to resist the US and its allies on the issue of the Darfur crisis, in an unprecedented show of defiance