Max Cleland Set To Debate Karl Rove

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This should make for some good theatrics: According to Political Wire, Karl Rove and Max Cleland, the triple amputee vet who was knocked out of the Senate partly by a nasty GOP ad campaign linking him to Osama Bin Laden, are set to debate one another at Pat Robertson's Regent University on Oct. 26. The topic: Whether American Democracy should be exported to the world.

They've apparently never met. It'll be interesting to see if Cleland asks the question directly of Rove that so many people have asked since his 2002 loss: "Sir, were you behind those ads tying a veteran who sacrificed three limbs for his country to a terrorist mass murder of thousands of Americans?" Stay tuned.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/max_cleland_set_to_debate_karl_rove.php

The original article is from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Pick two pairs of debaters. Put former U.S. senator Max Cleland and retired Army general Barry McCaffery on one side. Set up ex-White House guru Karl Rove and former Florida governor Jeb Bush opposite them.

Toss in a question: “Should America bring democracy to the world?”

Then let the feathers fly, leaving the preservation of civilization to a single moderator, PBS journalist Charlie Rose.

This will happen on Oct. 26. Witnesses will be charged $40. Splatter sheets will be provided to occupants of the first three rows.

So far as we know, this will be the first time Rove and Cleland have met. Many supporters of Cleland believe that Rove — during Cleland’s unsuccessful re-election campaign — was behind the TV ad that paired the triple-amputeed, Vietnam veteran with an image of Osama bin Laden.

Go get him, Senator Cleland!