Debates to Dream About


	Debates to Dream About

cniq_cniq

6-27-2007 12:37 AM

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politics, political, president, election, primary, debate, republicans, democrats

cniq_cniq says:

Good idea.

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6-27-2007 12:40 AM

cniq_cniq

In this format - of Democrats debating Republicans - talking to the
base alone wouldn't work. And we would hear real arguments - real
disagreements about what to do in Iraq, for example - rather than the
current, tidy consensus on each side and nothing in the middle. We
would begin to learn who these candidates really are when they step out
of the police lineup.

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