Dodgeball Questions

   The other night I was listening to CNN in the car on XM radio, and there was an interview with someone by someone. Yeah, I was listening that closely, but the people aren't the point. What caught my ear was when the reporter asked something, the guy would totally dodge the question. So at the end of the interview I hear, "and this was so-and-so ducking the question." Yay! She pointed it out.
   I wish that all reporters would do something like that. Whenever the politician dodges the question by answering another question, or says something repeatedly without getting to a point, or simply can't make an intelligible comment, the reporter should just announce that the person has dodged the question. I think this would be helpful so that we can point out when our representatives can't answer questions. I'm not talking about national security here. I'm talking about the ones who can't seem to make up their minds about social, economic, policy issues etc. It would also alert those who aren't listening critically that the politician has taken the fifth, usually associated with some criminal or self-incriminating statement.
   I know that politicians are just people, they're only human, etc. But these are the people who are supposed to be the best of the best, the ones that represent us in our democracy and to the rest of the world. This is no small order, and I certainly don't want to make life more difficult for them. But perhaps they should be held to a higher standard, not the lowest common denominator.