Why does it matter that this questioner is a member of Hillary Clinton's steering committee. Is he not an American? Should he not have the right to ask a question just because he's a passionate activist? Or are you suggesting that the only people worthy of posing a question to the candidates for the presidency are the uninvolved? I thought Anderson Cooper and CNN handled this issue of "disclosure" terribly. Why should a questioner's background or political stance matter? All Americans deserve the chance to ask their questions and get answers. For the candidates to act as though they were "blindsided" is absurd. American citizens have been "blindsided" by the idiocy of George W. Bush for going on eight years now. I don't hear anyone apologizing and saying it should have been disclosed that Bush is a nitwit.

yea, abny, i absolutely agree. sure, it's rotten and cynical, but that seems to be the way the game is played now. when you've got jeff gannon asking questions a presidential press conference there's nowhere to go but down. additonally, after the swift-boating fiasco democrats are more than willing to fight fire with fire. for these reasons, i don't see any issue whatsoever with a planted questioner at a lousy debate.

It should have been disclosed, but this guy isn't a political pro, just a campaign volunteer. Besides, did CNN disclose at the Democratic debate that Campbell Brown was married to a Romney staffer? And for crying out loud, one question came from Grover Nordquist, who gets interviewed somewhere daily! Why not just have useless pundits and lobbyists ask questions on a webcam?