Reply #1: The only way Bush

[SheilaT]

can get out of doing the third debate is if there's some supposedly good reason -- heightened terror alert or actual attack, some crisis "requiring" the President's presence -- keeping him away. On this I agree with the blogger.

But I don't agree that the Town Hall format will allow Bush to shine. Quite the contrary. If they actually let the audience come up with their own un-vetted questions, there will be some real zingers for W. I thought I'd heard or read that the questions would all be scripted, but I can't even begin to give a source, so I may well be wrong.

Normally I cannot bear to watch or listen to either Bush or Cheney, but since I'm debate-watching with a group of like-minded Democrats, it's actually fun.