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Kerry Aide Threatens to Remove 'Time Up' Lights for Debate
NEWSMAX.COM ^ | Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004 1:19 p.m. EDT | With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 09/30/2004 11:10:39 AM PDT by sr4402

Democratic candidate John Kerry's campaign demanded Thursday that the lights signaling when a speaker's time has expired during debates with President Bush be removed from the lecterns because they are distracting, but the commission hosting the debates refused.

An angry exchange between representatives of the Kerry campaign and the Commission on Presidential Debates took place just hours before the candidates were to meet at the University of Miami for the first of three debates, The Associated Press learned.

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Kerry's team threatened to remove the lights when they visit the debate site with Kerry later in the day.

``We'll bring a screwdriver,'' said a Kerry aide familiar with what several people called an angry exchange. The commission did not return a call seeking comment.

The commission placed the lights on the lecterns in clear view of the television audience and those in the auditorium.

An agreement between the Kerry and Bush campaigns specified that timing lights ``shall be placed such that they are visible to the debate audiences and television viewers.''

However, Kerry's team contended that the agreement doesn't specifically say where the lights should be placed, and it said putting them on the lecterns creates a distraction.

The Bush team pushed for the lights in negotiations with Kerry advisers.

The commission is a nonprofit and nonpartisan corporation that has sponsored all the presidential debates since 1988.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debate; debates; firstdebate; flipflop; kerry; kerrylies
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To: sr4402

The light is on but nobody is home?


41 posted on 09/30/2004 11:18:11 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: sr4402
Top Jokes:

Kerry was for the light before he was against it

Kerry refuses to see the light

Teresa is bringing a screwdriver, too. She likes to mix them every morning.

Kerry regrets he can't bring a gun, but a screwdriver is the next best thing for a psycho rampage.

The red lights highlight Kerry's orange face.

Kerry wants to talk past his limit so he's afraid of the lights. That's not a joke, but Kerry is.

42 posted on 09/30/2004 11:18:13 AM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: sr4402

I understand.
It takes much longer to answer a direct question when you have to explain "why this time" you have a different stance than the last 4 stances on the same question.

This should be good!


43 posted on 09/30/2004 11:18:26 AM PDT by lyingisbetter ("Let's wait Kerry" or Let's go Bush")
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To: sr4402
lights
44 posted on 09/30/2004 11:18:28 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: sr4402

Why does this not surprise me????????????


45 posted on 09/30/2004 11:18:28 AM PDT by Gabz (Hurricanes and Kerry/Edwards have 2 things in common - hot air and destruction.)
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To: sr4402

Kerry has no discipline. His aids are now in a panic because they realize this. Kerry is very arrogant and pompous. He will exceed his time again and again, and the lights going off will embarrass his orange face.

46 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:02 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: sr4402

Anybody whose thoughts are so tenuous as to be distracted by a couple of light bulbs, should not be president of the United States in a time of war.


47 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:03 AM PDT by DestroytheDemocrats
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To: Conspiracy Guy

ROFL!!!!!!!!!


48 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:20 AM PDT by Gabz (Hurricanes and Kerry/Edwards have 2 things in common - hot air and destruction.)
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To: mmyers
Kerry is now Flip Flopping on the lights he agreed to.

Perhaps they'd agree to the lights if they were controlled with a TOGGLE SWITCH.

49 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:27 AM PDT by LTCJ (CBS, all your Boyd Cycles are belong to us.)
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To: NJ_gent

A disco ball is perfect!


50 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:34 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
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To: DestroytheDemocrats
Evidently during debate practice Kerry could not keep his yammering down or clearly frame his positions in the time alloted.

Exactly. This is great news.

Let him yammer on.

51 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:40 AM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: sr4402

Why does this remind me of Captain Picard?


52 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:46 AM PDT by ericthecurdog ("We are conservatives. This great Republican Party is our historical house. This is our home.")
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To: sr4402

Hey Edwards, why not sue Vernon Jordan for malpractice?


53 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:47 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: NJ_gent

Oh come on... have some fun with it! He should have said, "We'll bring a hammer". :-)

and a sickle???????


54 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:51 AM PDT by proudmilitarymrs (If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The Lights will mess up my special tan.

/sarcasm off

55 posted on 09/30/2004 11:19:54 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: All

Think this flip flop by the Kerry team is amusing, should hear Rush replaying the All Stars attempt to make sense of Kerry's stance on Iraq. LOL


56 posted on 09/30/2004 11:20:16 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

He really wouldn't have an idea, but it would appear that he did.


57 posted on 09/30/2004 11:20:16 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Because then the light would have an ORANGE GLOW to it!

THESE PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC!!!


I can hardly wait for these debates. It's going to be one WONDERFUL example for my grandson, of how to and not to act.


58 posted on 09/30/2004 11:20:30 AM PDT by Brad’s Gramma
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To: waldorf

They had better not get near to the President of the United States with a screwdriver. It could be used as a weapon.


59 posted on 09/30/2004 11:20:48 AM PDT by mwl1
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To: Gabz; All

What time is the debate tonight?

Left Coast time please.


60 posted on 09/30/2004 11:20:51 AM PDT by oceanperch ( Hurricanes,Earthquakes and Volcanoes.....What Next? GOD)
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