KERRY HATES IT WHEN HIS MOUTH GETS TO GOING AND HE GETS A RED LIGHT.
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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They should have an Oscar style orchestra to start playing when the time is up.
The lights are unnecessary, his aide explained,when Kerry's time is up he will glow orange.
; )
It's hard to keep your lies straight when you have to worry about a light.
Fox just had Gerry Brown on talking about this - and he said Kerry needs to to stay away from complicated compound sentences.
Oh, is that on Rush's site?????? I'd love to hear that again!
The question is whether he'll be muttering to himself before the night is over.
LOL
Senator Kerry's problem is that he can't bloviate properly unless he can end his statement with "I yield back the remainder of my time." It will look really stupid when he says "I yield back the remainder of my time" then the blinkin' light has been going off for the last five minutes...
Funny! LOL!
This guy is so srewy. He will be blaming this on whoever made the deal. It wasn't his fault. I'd like to see him go crazy and rip the light right off during the debate. A Howard Dean moment.
what happens when the light goes on? it is a warning to wrap up? will Lehrer speak up?
"That's not my light going off, it belongs to my family"
"Shove the F'n lights!"
"The color of those lights makes me look orange"
"You should have seen the Christmas lights we had in Cambodia"
It would be the first original thought that ever entered Kerry's head.
KERRY HATES IT WHEN HIS MOUTH GETS TO GOING AND HE GETS A RED LIGHT.
It would be perfect for Bush to say, excuse, my opponents time has expired. May I have your question now. Then sit back and watch the human lie machine start to sputter and spew smoke.
This means that John F'n is going to try to rush his answers and will not be able to use his charactersitic fog o' nuance technique to avoid answering questions.
This means that John F'n will be facially paralyzed, orange, and off his game.
DINGDINGDINGDINGDING! We have a winnah -- !
6pm Left Coast time.
Just tell him John Kennedy would have the lights. He'll do it.
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