Debate Plans Ensure This: Vapid Results: From The Tampa Tribune

Debate Plans Ensure This: Vapid Results: From The Tampa Tribune

"W hen you have to script exactly how two presidential candidates will approach each other and shake hands before a joint appearance, it's pretty obvious nobody will confuse the event with the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Gracious, the highly sterilized ``debate'' Thursday between George W. Bush and John Kerry will be lucky to rise to the intellectual standards of Hannity and Colmes.

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Oddly enough, the two candidates to lead the free world - men who promise bold, visionary, courageous presidencies - had to forge a debate contract more full of whereases, clauses, subclauses and sub-subclauses than Bill Gates' prenuptial agreement before they would agree to sit for questions from that Grand Inquisitor, Jim Lehrer.

A Vatican high Mass has more freewheeling spontaneity..."