Presidential Debates Set

The debates are set, there will be four of them: Sept. 30, Oct. 8, and Oct. 13, and Oct. 5 for the VPs. All are at 9 p.m. Eastern. Get more details and read the memorandum of understanding (it is unreadable in Preview for me, I had to use Acrobat). There's not much different in here than in previous years. Says CNN: "A senior Kerry source said the Bush campaign was 'hung up' over whether a light or something audible like a buzzer would be used to tell the candidates when their time is up. A Bush official acknowledged that last-minute questions, mostly over the time cue issue, held up the agreement." In related news, it appears the first debate proposed by the truly nonpartisan Citizens' Debate Commission, scheduled for this Wednesday in Columbus, isn't going to happen.

Comments

Re:The debates could be very good for Kerry

[bhima]

To be sure! "Not being Bush" will carry him so far. And I think the whole Vietnam thing is a waste of time.

I've never heard him speak (I live in the EU) can he speak proper English? This is always a point of contention with my British friends, after they are done lambasting Blair for being a dishonest Bush lapdog, they point out that at least he has a grasp of the English language.

One of them recently sent me a MP3 of Bush struggling with the concept of Native American sovereignty and it was just too painful to listen to.

Re:bush is hard to beat

[fenix down]

Bush can't lose because everybody thinks he's stupid. That's why he wins, he wanders around stuttering and mispronouncing everything for 6 months, until the expectation is that he'll debate like a rotting fish. Then Bush just does enough coke pre-debate to create the illusion of competence, and victory is his.

Slight difference.

[khasim]

Moderator: Targeted specific question about exact concrete details that you would do the next four years in your administration.

Kerry: Patriotism, I am not Bush, purple heart, I am not Bush.

Bush: 9/11, fear, terrorists, tax cut.