Debate official jokes about "flares," "campfire" to satisfy Bushie demand

[DeepModem Mom]

that candidates stay in their designated spaces. Are they that embarrassed that their candidate's physical stature is as slight as his intellectual and Presidential (sic) stature?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58088-2004Sep28.html

....At the debate site at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, workers assembled six tractor-trailers of production equipment as officials from the Commission on Presidential Debates continued to chafe at demands from the Bush-Cheney campaign for rigorous enforcement of unprecedented debate restrictions designed to limit chances for the candidates to interact directly. One debate official said jokingly that the Bush campaign was so insistent about keeping the candidates in their designated spaces that organizers were "thinking of using flares or building a campfire" to satisfy the GOP handlers. Instead, the organizers will settle for strips of tape that are likely to be visible to television viewers, officials said.

Kerry campaign officials said they were happy Bush had agreed to all three debates and cared little about the rules, some of which the commission said are unenforceable because camera angles are controlled by the television networks. Bush confidant Karen Hughes said the aim of the rules was "no gimmicks, no tricks, no sudden surprises."...

[Dem2theMax]

1. Bush confidant Karen Hughes said

the aim of the rules was "no gimmicks, no tricks, no sudden surprises."...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh aren't they just so full of themselves? Trying to insinuate that the Kerry team would try something dirty. * and gang are nothing BUT gimmicks, tricks and sudden surprises.

Geez, I wish * had to go through a REAL debate. Kerry would nail him to the floor. It would be over in one night.

[wicket]

14. If anyone is going to pull a dirty trick, it would be BUSH.

Assholes!!! :grr: :grr:

[Ruffhowse]

2. And we know why they don't want sudden surprises-then we'd get to see

Chimpy freeze up for 7 minutes like he did on 9/11. Chimpy can't handle stress and tension unless he's boozed up.

[luaneryder]

3. Coming from Hughes the aim of the

rules is laughable. Someone tell me when a surprise isn't sudden? Hughes said Bush stuck to "his normal routine: up early, read the newspapers, read the Bible." We know very well that he is read to from newspaper and Bible Cliff Notes.

[BrendaStarr]

4. Ah is little Georgie afraid of the debates?

Sounds like wikkel Georgie Porgie is thinking of the Al Gore debates.

Is there a rule about no "sighing"? and the "zones" sound like he's afraid he'll get charged again.

Or maybe he's afraid someone will show how short he is.

[MatrixEscape]

5. Well we know ...

We all know that a "sudden suprise" could defeat Bush all by itself. Look how many surprises he has not been able to deal with so far.

A naked Emperor standing on a platform of nothing but re-hashed rhetoric is like a camel waiting for that last straw.

NOTE:

Some of my friends and I, just for the heck of it, are going to suggest that some of the people we know do a concentration/visualization before, and during, the debates.

Now humor me ... it wouldn't hurt and it can be fun as JUST an experiment for those who are into that kind of thing.

When you concentrate on Bush and see him as the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz ... at the point just after the water hits her. Alternatives could be that his earpiece stops working or gets jammed, or that his mind just goes totally blank and he stutters his way into infamy for the masses.

When you concentrate on Kerry, give him lots of light, golden sunshine, energy, inspiration, and confident charisma. While we know he does not need much from help from us, we can pump him up with the energy we try to collectively provide.

I am not being "new age" or hocus pocus about it, just trying some focused thought transmission for test purposes ;)

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Can't hurt, MatrixEscape, and might help -- welcome to DU!

[Spinzonner]

6. So, just tether his ankle to the podium with a chain of appropriate length

[DeepModem Mom]

9. LOL!

[Rageneau]

7. How Can Smirk Rehearse For A Spontaneous Debate?

Aides portrayed Bush as relaxed as he headed into the first debate, saying he had settled on what he wanted to say during four formal rehearsals that began in July and ended Saturday.

How can he rehearse what he is going to say before he even knows what questions he's going to be asked?

Does that mean that Smirk is going to give nothing but canned 'answers', regardless of what the subject is or what the questions are?

Or does it mean that he already has a copy of the questions and is memorizing the answers Karen Hughes wrote for him?

Or both?

Is this a debate or a recital?

[Spinzonner]

10. More importantly

when they wind him up before the debate starts will it last for the whole 90 minutes or will Karen have to run out on the stage during a break to crank it again.

[Bridget Burke]

12. Simple: Just teach him some all-purpose answers.

Suggestions:

"Yes"

"No"

"That would be an ecumenical matter."

[fishface]

13. The questions from the audience have to be submitted

to the moderators for approval and when called on, if the audience member deviats from the script, they cut them off.
This won't be a 'debate', it'll be Smirk giving his canned campaign speech answers.
A farce.

[farmbo]

11. Kerry needs to call him out...mano y mano...

So the world can see Bush cowering inside his duct-taped sanctuary.