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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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KEYWORDS: debate; debates; firstdebate; flipflop; kerry; kerrylies
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To: ClearCase_guy

They should have an Oscar style orchestra to start playing when the time is up.


61 posted on 09/30/2004 11:20:58 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: sr4402

The lights are unnecessary, his aide explained,when Kerry's time is up he will glow orange.


62 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:07 AM PDT by DOGEY
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To: Gabz

; )


63 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:08 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
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To: sr4402

It's hard to keep your lies straight when you have to worry about a light.


64 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:18 AM PDT by marty60
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To: TexasBud
Even if he manages the time thing, no one will understand his big words & long drawn out sentences.

Fox just had Gerry Brown on talking about this - and he said Kerry needs to to stay away from complicated compound sentences.

65 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:26 AM PDT by Gabz (Hurricanes and Kerry/Edwards have 2 things in common - hot air and destruction.)
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To: Soul Seeker

Oh, is that on Rush's site?????? I'd love to hear that again!


66 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:31 AM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: sr4402
Unhinged and the debate hasn't even begun.

The question is whether he'll be muttering to himself before the night is over.

67 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:34 AM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: Brad's Gramma

LOL


68 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:40 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
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To: TexasBud

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...


69 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:42 AM PDT by gridlock (BARKEEP: Why the long face? HORSE: Ha ha, old joke. BARKEEP: Not you, I was talking to JF'n Kerry!)
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To: xm177e2

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.


70 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:57 AM PDT by Moconservative
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To: Howlin

what happens when the light goes on? it is a warning to wrap up? will Lehrer speak up?


71 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:59 AM PDT by mwl1
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To: ClintonBeGone
"I voted for the lights, before I voted against them"

"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"

72 posted on 09/30/2004 11:21:59 AM PDT by LikeLight (__________________________)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

It would be the first original thought that ever entered Kerry's head.


73 posted on 09/30/2004 11:22:17 AM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: sr4402

KERRY HATES IT WHEN HIS MOUTH GETS TO GOING AND HE GETS A RED LIGHT.

74 posted on 09/30/2004 11:22:40 AM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: sr4402

75 posted on 09/30/2004 11:22:50 AM PDT by MattGarrett
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To: proudmilitarymrs
"and a sickle???????"

What, you want them to make it that easy?
76 posted on 09/30/2004 11:23:10 AM PDT by NJ_gent (Conservatism begins at home. Security begins at the border. Please, someone, secure our borders.)
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To: finnman69

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.


77 posted on 09/30/2004 11:23:24 AM PDT by marty60
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To: gridlock
This means that John F'n has not been able to limit his answers to less than two minutes in the practice debates.

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 -- !

78 posted on 09/30/2004 11:23:29 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: oceanperch

6pm Left Coast time.


79 posted on 09/30/2004 11:23:44 AM PDT by Gabz (Hurricanes and Kerry/Edwards have 2 things in common - hot air and destruction.)
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To: sr4402
Just tell him John Kennedy would have the lights. He'll do it.

80 posted on 09/30/2004 11:24:16 AM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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