Have Shrubya/CrashCart actually agreeded to the debates yet?

[Rosco T.]

Will Edwards be able to make CrashCart blow a gasket?

Will Kerry get Shrubya so flustered that he starts speaking in tounges? whip out a bottle of Jack in the Black and chug it? Storm off the stage and pout?

[WMliberal]

1. yep, three debates

plus one vice- presidential. Bush wouldn't agree to any that didn't feed him the questions before the debate.

[OneBlueSky]

2. my prediction: there will be no debates . . .

Bush is in no condition to debate, and his people know it . . . they'll come up with some excuse, or manufacture some kind of crisis, that will prevent the shrub from attending any debates . . . he'll be too busy "tending to the nation's business," or some such twaddle . . .

[Goldmund]

3. If there are no debates, then there will be no elections

If * had 80% approval, he may have enough authority and mandate to pull something like this off. With barely in the 40s, no way -- this would politically sink him. And they know it. I think that if they back out of the debates, it will be a signal that they plan on "postponing" the elections.