I expect that Kerry will be asked difficult questions in the debates.

bhw

With moderator Jim Lehrer on hand (30 Sept) you can't expect too much. Lehrer is a fair reporter but hardly "hard hitting."

For the Oct 8 debate they have named Charlie Gibson who is an absolute joke.

The Oct 13th debate has CBS's "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer as moderator. It has been so long since I have seen Schieffer I couldn't make a fair judgement.

Here is my bet: Zero questions on the Swift boats. Zero questions on Vietnam medals. Zero questions on "Winter Soldier."

Zero questions on any thing that requires more than a 5 word answer.

Are you now -- or have you ever been -- a member of the Communist Party?

Do you have any children or pets? --because know where you live...

When you became a liberal, did you know that they were associated with Satan?

When we cancel the upcoming election, declare martial law, bring out our October Surprise, and stage a 'terrorist attack' on our own nation, will you be surprised?

Will you agree to attend a debate with Bush by arriving via a slow-moving convertible driving through Dealy Plaza in Dallas?

If you owned as much stock in Halliburton as Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, would you have supported the war in Iraq?

If your daughter were gay, would you have enough personal integrity to admit that she probably deserves some form of civil protection for a deep personal relationship with her chosen mate?

-- And if so, would you openly oppose your reactionary boss -- or would you be an opportunistic pig playing to the Christian Far Right Nut Bars?

Will you do anything to further America's Empire Expansion and "Humble" Nation Building -- including lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction -- or are you just another liberal wimp who values honesty over efficiency?

If you win the election -- and Iraq continues to be a gigantic resource/treasury-draining quagmire/death trap for years to come, will you please not mention how we got into it?

Please?

Marc, maybe the moderators will skip the swiftie questions and ask Kerry about subjects the voters actually care about, like how he will help improve the economy and how he will fight terrorism.

Then again, maybe they'll ask these swiftie questions of Bush:

--Why won't you renounce the swiftie ads questioning Kerry's military service, when you yourself avoided going to Vietnam and have faced accusations that you went AWOL, which you haven't been able to successfully dispel
--Why was an attorney affiliated with you campaign giving pro bono advice to a 527 group, a clear violation of the law?
--Why did you wait for the attorney to quit, rather than fire him yourself?

I mean, if anyone should answer swiftie quests ions, it should be Bush.

I have said before that I don't care about Bush's Guard service because he did at least serve in the military [and I don't think military service or the lack thereof is an automatic qualifier or disqualifier for a presidential candidate]. But if he won't speak out against the b.s. tactics against Kerry, then his military record is fair game for comparison.

Ya know, I'm so tired of hearing/reading that Bush won't renounce the swiftboat ads.

He DID. I heard it with my own ears. He did so at a recent press conference... denounced it specifically along with ALL the 527 ads.

Vic

Disassociating himself from the ads and denouncing the ads are different things. Did he denounce the Band-Aid-sporting buffoons at his party's convention?

He *did* denounce the ads. And is the President of the United States supposed to monitor every damned thing going on at the convention?

Yeesh.

Vic