Kerry should take a risk, push debate rules to limit ("cheat")

[Dakkon]

Shortly before undergoing successful open-heart surgery this summer, a man who knows something about debating an incumbent president named Bush was asked how John Kerry should conduct tonight's televised encounter with George W.

Be respectful of the office while pressing fact after fact into responses to questions, Bill Clinton replied. "Facts are not attacks." But Kerry must gird for a tougher battle than Clinton faced against Bush 41 in 1992: "This Bush won't be looking at his watch" as the debate rolls or creeps along, the ex-president said.

It turns out to be worse than that for Kerry. Even if Bush 43 should glance away in boredom or disdain, the nation's viewers won't see that or any other telling spontaneous gesture. The 32 pages of rules negotiated by the two campaigns limit the cameras to showing the candidate who is speaking.

Between the filigreed lines of these rules lurk two asymmetric portraits of the fears that each campaign entertains about the other and, more significantly, about itself.

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That article made me sick. I believe I better shut up and leave that up to you.

[meisje]

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