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

To: kvkkc1 who wrote (35258)	9/7/2000 11:37:26 AM
From: iandiareii	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Not even Bush thinks that his proposed chat show meetings with Gore qualify as debates: Bush, on NBC's ``Today Show,'' said: ``I think we ought to have one presidential debate, and that's the one I agreed to in St. Louis, Missouri, but there are other good formats with other good moderators on other good forums.'' dailynews.yahoo.com But it was Chicken George himself who asked that there be three debates. ("Three is plenty," Bush said at the time.) Now he's running scared. Three is also the number of times Bush pere faced Clinton in 1992. So the idea that Bush is being forced into an unprecedented number of debates doesn't stand up; it's Bush's own number, and it's been done before. The more important precedent -- the one to which the editorialists were referring -- is allowing the Commission on Presidential Debates to fill its valuable, disinterested role as debate sponsor. Junior's cynical flip-flop is an insult to the American voter.