You know who should moderate the next debate? John Edwards

[LostInAnomie]

Instead of the usual talking heads with a poor grasp of the topics, they should have the man who drove the Democratic campaign ask the questions.

Anyone else think this would be a good idea?

[Inspired]

1. I agree and I'm so disappointed he isn't in this debate.

[ursi]

2. what a good idea that would have been for tonight but I wish he was in the debate

we've lost a major spark ...

[glowing]

3. Oh that would be awesome.. add richardson and Kooch to that panel.

[IntravenousDemilo]

9. ...and all the rest, too, plus Jeff Probst. Then they all sit in a grass hut with tiki torches...

...and Clinton & Obama can be grilled by all the former island-mates while an orchestra plays cheesy, ominous music, like the final Tribal Council.

[Beausoir]

14. LOL. You...

made me laugh.

[IntravenousDemilo]

16. Glad to make you laugh, Beausoir! It gets a little darker at this point...

Then at one point one of them could say, à la Sue Hawk:

I have no questions. I have statements. __________, you're an arrogant, pompous, human being. But I admire your frankness with it. You have worked hard to get where you're at and you started working way before you come to Washington. So with my work ethic background, I give credit that to you. But on the other hand, your inability to admit your failures without going into a whining speech makes you a loser in life....

Now, __________, I was your friend at the beginning of this, really thinking that you were a true friend. I was willing to be sitting there and put you next to me. At that time you were sweeter than me. I'm not a very openly nice person. I'm just frank, forward, and tell you the way it is. To have you sit next to me, and me lose the primary just to stomp on somebody like this.

As the game wore on and the campaigns merged, you lied to me, which showed me the true person you are. You're two-faced and manipulative to get anywhere you are at in life. That's why you fail all the time. So at that point in the game, I decided to go out to my alliance with my family and just hold my dignity and values in check and hoping that I hadn't lost too many of them and play the game as long as possible and hang in there as long as possible.

But ___________. Go back a couple of times when Jeff said to you, 'What goes around, comes around.' It's here. You will not get my vote. My vote will go to __________. And I hope that is the one vote that makes you lose the convention. If it's not, so be it. I'll shake your hand and go on from here.

But if I would ever pass you along in life and you are lying there dying of thirst, I would not give you a drink of water. I would let the vultures take you and do whatever they want with you with no ill regrets.

I plead to Democrats to think a little bit of the island we have been on. This island is full of, pretty much, only two things - snakes and rats. And in the end of Mother Nature, we have ___________ The Snake, who knowingly went after prey; and ____________, who turned into the rat that ran around like rats do on this island, trying to run from the snake. I believe we owe it to the island spirits we have come to know to let it end in the way that Mother Nature intended: For the snake to eat the rat.



I'll just leave it to everyone else to fill in the blanks, which are pretty well interchangeable since we ARE talking about politicians.

[Radical Activist]

4. He'd do a hell of a lot better than Wolfie

But I think Kucinich deserves more credit for directing the debate in the last two elections.

[waiting for hope]

5. OMG!

That would be just too frickin much! Edwards, the gifted Trail Attorney asking questions. I can see Obama and Clinton crapping their pants at the thought.

[Zenlitened]

6. Now THAT is a fantastic idea!

:wow:

[NightWatcher]

7. What about Michael Buffer?

Let's get ready to rumble!!!!!!!

[wain]

8. and Dennis

how great would that be!

[subsuelo]

12. with you on that

Dennis would have them both begging forgiveness by the end of the night.

Either that or storming out of the debate with some excuse

[krkaufman]

10. That WOULD be excellent. Email that to Olbermann...

... and maybe he can make it happen. (That'd set an EXCELLENT precedent.)

One major hitch... the cable news pundits wouldn't dare give up the spotlight.

[jannyk]

11. I think he already did. I think he moderated their rhetoric and

sniping at each other. I think he may have insisted on a more united party front and an end to the personal attacks before bestowing his support. Their behaviour was so different tonight that someone definately took them out out to the woodshed - I think it was JE.

[Beausoir]

13. Oh hells yes! What a fantastic idea!

[Beausoir]

15. This needs to be kicked.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. freakin Genius!

just genius!

[lumberjack_jeff]

18. Very good idea

"Next question, candidates; 40% of households in the United States make less than $35,000 each year. The median house in the US is $250,000. The Veterans Administration reports that 200,000 veterans are homeless. Medical costs are projected to continue to increase at a double digit rate. If one of you is elected to two terms as president, when you leave office the average family will spend $17,000 more each year for access to medical care.

In the spirit of the questioning you've come to expect at these debates... Diamonds or pearls?"