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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (57799)	9/30/2004 1:15:58 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

I'm not going to bother watching them, just going to read the media coverage the next morning ... that's what really matters, anyway.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (57799)	9/30/2004 1:25:04 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Foreign policy at issue _______________________ SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD Thursday, September 30, 2004 Thursday in Coral Gables, Fla., President Bush has a lot of explaining to do, and John Kerry has a lot of convincing to do. In this first of three presidential debates, the president will be on the spot to justify a foreign policy that has led the nation into a disastrous war, alienated much of the rest of the world, given short shrift to old allies and the United Nations, left the Israeli-Palestinian crisis to lay fallow and responded inadequately to nuclear proliferation threats in North Korea and Iran. Kerry is obliged to make clear where he differs on these and other foreign policy issues, make the case that he could do better and explain how. This looks to be a close election. The winner will be he who sways a narrow band of undecided voters -- and gets all those committed voters to the polls. Bush can do so only by justifying one of the most controversial U.S. foreign policies in a generation. Kerry can do so only by justifying himself as a preferable alternative, capable of doing better than Bush in making the world a less dangerous place for the United States and its friends. Tonight's overly restrictive format -- even with the savvy Jim Lehrer moderating -- may, as former journalist Ben Bagdikian warned in Editor & Publisher magazine, devolve into "slogans rather than substance." Only the candidates can prevent that. They owe it to the American people to do so. seattlepi.nwsource.com