[SierraWasp]

The Debates are way over-rated! Debates are only an opportunity for one or the other to screw-up, blunder, stumble, make a faux paux, or do/say something stupid!

The only thing they are good for is theatre for the superficial, shallow, last minute voters who don't know squat about public policy or even the make-up of our government. To them, it's just some popularity contest and beauty pageant for a public swooning over celebrity and entertainment.

[js1138]

The Debates are way over-rated! Debates are only an opportunity for one or the other to screw-up, blunder, stumble, make a faux paux, or do/say something stupid!

Kerry will do something stupid by showing up. He is worse in public than algore.

The debates will be critical for one simple reason -- by mid October, things will be going pretty much the way they are now, meaning Iraq is improving and two million jobs have been added, or they will be worse. If things are going smoothly, Kerry has nothing to talk about and Bush does. Or vice-versa. Absent a national disaster, Kerry loses big.