Posted on 10/08/2004 5:18:54 PM PDT by hail to the chief
Here are few things I would love to see happen during tonight's debate:
*As the debate starts, Charlie Gibson, the debate moderator, announces that he's giving up his moderator chair to John O'Neill.
*When told that the unemployment rate is too high, Bush sticks it to Kerry that a 5.4% unemployment rate ain't too shabby, especially considering the praise Clinton received for a 5.6% unemployment rate.
*John Kerry complains about a "shrinking middle class" and President Bush informs the senator that the reason that class is shrinking is because they're moving into higher brackets, not lower.
*Immediately after he offers his obligatory praise of Kerry's service to our country, President Bush denounces Kerry's anti-American activities upon his return from Vietnam -- including his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relation Committee, his Paris meeting with the enemy, and his continued refusal to apologize for his actions.
*Teresa Heinz-Kerry jumps up in the middle of the debate and derides anyone who dares to question her husband. Embarrassed, John Kerry can only say that he admires his wife's courage to speak her mind.
*As soon has Kerry starts talking about the President's failure to build a coalition in Iraq, Bush begins listing the countries involved in the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal and then asks if John Kerry was hoping that those are the nations Kerry hopes to recruit and believes we can trust when it comes to fighting a war in Iraq.
*Kerry remembers, longingly, the good ol' days of the Soviet Union and why a nuclear freeze actually would have been a good thing.
*In a sudden fit of honesty, Kerry jovially admits that he we just kidding about raising taxes on those making more than $200K per year, stating, "Obviously that was a joke -- everybody gets a tax hike. How did you think I was going to pay for all this crap?"
I'd like to see ABC News' Political Director Halperin get kicked on his keister:
DRUDGE
ABCNEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MEMO SPARKS CONTROVERSY: 'BOTH SIDES NOT 'EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE'
**Exclusive**
An internal memo written by ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff: During coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush not to "reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable."
The controversial internal memo, obtained by DRUDGE, captures Halperin stating how "Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win."
But Halperin claims that Bush is hoping to "win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions."
"The current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done," Halperin writes.
Halperin's claim that ABCNEWS will not "reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable" set off a sparks in St. Louis where media players gathered to cover the second presidential debate.
Halperin states the responsibilities of ABCNEWS staff have "become quite grave." MORE
I just want Bush to boldly mention that Kerry missed over 75% of his intelligence committee meetings. Maybe a few times.
Bush should ask kErry, "Are there more nations in our coalition than there were being bribed by sAddam in the oil-for food-scam."
I would like to see Bush discuss the media bias in American "news" some time whether it's the debate or a speech.
I want Bush to answer the question about WMD's with: Well now that the report has been issued and the result is supposedly known, I can answer as Senator Kerry when Diane Sawyer interviewed him--"that will depend on the outcome."
What would be great is if Bush and Kerry would tell the people the truth and quit trying to out do the other.
I would love for Bush to comprehensively explain why regardless of whether or not there were WMD in Iraq, the world is a safer place, and not just by saying Iraq had "intentions" but focusing more on the oil for food, the ties to terrorists, and the corrupt reasons why Europe wouldn't back us.
First: have an internet poll (with registered users, kind of like what WND does; but log IP numbers and MAC addresses just to try to make it reasonable) of 200+ questions and have the top 20 questions put to the candidates. Have the voting go on for a week or so. Have both of them in separate enclosures so they cannot hear each other; there's no such thing as a debate anymore - have them completely answer the questions on their own, side by side for comparison. THAT would be something I would like to see on TV.
Second: have kerry clutch his heart and fall down gurgling. Cheyne-Stokes respiration would be a plus.
Sorry about that. Any way I can get this moved?
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