In Lincoln's run for Senate against Douglas he set him up by asking him a slavery question where Douglas would be forced to answer in favor of freeing slaves in order to win that senate election. But from then on Douglas was associated with freeing the slaves and that split his Democratic party in two when he ran against Lincoln for President. Lincoln won because Douglas only had half a party to vote for him. Lincoln was very cunning. (He only freed the slaves when he was sure it was politically necessary.)
Today our politicians have purposely lowered the bar so that their job is easier for them. This is no debate coming up, just competing commercials.
This is just a very silly talking manequin show. I am not even sure I am going to watch it will just be the same old BS. OUR MAN WON NO OUR MAN WON THIS SHOWS WHAT A GREAT LEADER OUR MAN IS OUR MAN WAS VEWRY WITTY NO OUR MAN WAS VERY WITTY.
The general public doesn't care about debate points anyway, but they do like to see a side by side comparison. It works. They will hear Bush's message and they will hear Kerry's message - straight and direct from the candidate - instead of 10 second sound bites on the news.
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