Democrat Kerry Challenges Bush to Monthly Debates

[buff2]

<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-campaign-kerry.html>

Democrat Kerry Challenges Bush to Monthly Debates
By REUTERS

Published: March 13, 2004

Filed at 9:56 a.m. ET

BOSTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry,
visiting the site of one of the most famous political debates in U.S.
history, planned to challenge President Bush on Saturday to a ``real
discussion about America's future'' in a monthly series of debates.

Kerry, already engaged in a running exchange of negative ads with Bush
eight months before the November election, planned to deliver the
challenge at the site of the historic Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas
debates in Quincy, Illinois.

[bryant69]

1. Good sign

The Bushies aren't going to want any debates, or as few as possible, so it's a smart move on Kerry's part to ask for a lot; that way the compromise number will be somewhere in the middle instead of somewhere on the bottom.

Bryant
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[buff2]

2. This is something the idiot in thief does NOT want

Kerry will chew that moron up and spit him out!I can't wait for the debates....I know Kerry will not let bu$h get by with just short little quips. He's going to have to debate....and that is something bu$h is unable to do.

[bryant69]

5. There it is

Unless they manage to wrangle the daul press conference mode of debate--but again by asking for so much so early, they limit the possibility of the Bush Administration weaseling out entirely.

Bryant
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[Killarney]

3. This is good

We know Bush will decline monthly debates and it will look bad on him.

[YNGW]

4. 3 debates

There will be 3 debates; 2 presidental and 1 veep.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Where could we write to put pressure on Shrub

to do the debates? Any suggestions?

[readmylips]

7. That's a great challenge from Kerry...

little man bush will say, 'I got a country to run. I got to cut brush back at the ranch. I'm going on vacation.'
He will hide and use every excuse possible not to debate the issues.

I just hope that the Kerry campaign leaders will demand that the narrators will be intellects, and not these stupid cheap pretty boy pundits that did all the questioning during the democrat debates.

I'm sick and tired of stupid questions.

[Yupster]

8. The debate commission has already

recommended its debate schedule I believe. I think even the cities are set.

There are two presidential and one vice-presidential scheduled.