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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kvkkc1 who wrote (34505)	9/4/2000 1:05:52 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush is, in effect, thumbing his nose at the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates. I agree, there might be a better system than what we've got now in terms of allowing the candidates to go at it a bit more, but "Larry King" ain't the answer. He cuts you off if you talk for more than 12 seconds. And "Meet the Press"? Everybody who goes to church on Sunday morning would miss that debate. I think a reasonable person could conclude that what Bush is trying to do is minimize the audience. Gore said this morning on CNN he'd be willing to debate Bush 40 additional times in addition to the three scheduled debates in Boston, N.C. and St. Louis. The following is from a New York Times article this morning: "... one (Bush) adviser conceded that in selecting debates that would be moderated by the journalist Tim Russert in one case and the talk-show host Larry King in another, Mr. Bush was guaranteeing that he would take questions from people who had quizzed him before, and with whom he felt familiar. "One Republican strategist in Washington said that by spurning two of the three commission debates, which would be more structured, Mr. Bush was showing "that he's concerned about filling the full two-minute answer" in a debate with formal time parameters. "Larry will bail him out," said the strategist, referring to Mr. King. "Larry will keep it moving."