I just realized...Kerry is going to slaughter Chimpy in the debate!

[Mrs_Beastman]

on eloquence alone...it's going to be like Nixon/Kennedy debate....how Kennedy looked poised and Nixon was a sweaty deer in headlights

[laruemtt]

1. and Kerry's got a nice voice, too.

next to that stammering idiot, this is gonna be a scream!

[Rageneau]

2. It doesn't matter if he does.

It ain't winning, it's spinning that counts.

Gore completely demolished Smirk in the first debate. It was obvious to everyone -- even the Freepers. I monitored a 1000+ post thread of theirs that night and they were almost univerally wailing in despair. They thought the election was already over; that Bush was hopeless.

(To any Freeper trolling here) All you have to do to verify that I'm telling the truth is to go dig up the thread on that debate. Personally, I'd love to see it again.)

Anyway, it didn't matter how conclusively Gore had gored Bush. Starting that night and continuing for the next weeks, the Russerts and Matthews and Limbaughs and Jeff Gerths of the media began spinning that Gore had been too smarmy and boring and superor-acting and aggressive in the debates; about how he had 'lied' about a FEMA trip to Florida and about how many seats he said there were in a classroom, or how annoying his repeated 'sighing' was. They criticized everything they could think of to criticize.

Meanwhile the media almost unanimously stressed how sincere and straightforward they thought Bush was -- the kind of guy who, when he doesn't know the answer, doesn't pretend (or care) as if he does; a no-nonsense, plain-speaking man who will make a great president one day.

THAT was what happened after Gore cleaned Bush's clock in the first debate. Why should we expect anything different with the first Kerry-Bush one?

[Deere_John]

5. Absolutely right.

The debates aren't about knowledge, intelligence, policies, or the ability to think and articulate on one's feet. They're pure shtick. If Kerry was smart, he'd chuck all of his debate advisers and hire Bill Maher and Jon Stewart.

[cheshire]

3. If Kerry was to ask about an obscure law * would not know wtf it was.

He could make * look like he knows very little.

[Somawas]

4. An obscure law?

You mean like the Constitution?

[blondeatlast]

9. I remember that one... wasn't so long ago... freedom,

rights, even had a judicial body that was sworn to uphold it... wasn't so very long ago, was it?

Anyway, it sounds vaguely familiar; like a pleasant voice from my past...

[tjdee]

10. Like when Gore talked about affirmative action?

And Bush went "aww shucks, if affirmative action means quotas, I'm agin it"?

And the media was like WHOA, HE'S A WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Doctor_J]

6. what debate?

any "debate" that actually takes place will be nothing but a softball-swatting exercise for *. the reviews have already been written.

[cyclezealot]

7. Is not the chimp trying to get out of a debate?

The debate where questions are not screened? Don't under estimate the ability of the Chimp to respond to que cards..
How an educated public can watch him and Not see a goofball beats the hell out of me.

[wurzel]

8. At best there will be two debates of one hour each.