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Thu Oct-07-04 12:28 AM
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Questions for Friday -- Are they screened...not screened, or WHAT ?? |
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Just what is going to be the deal with these questions?
Are they going to know the questions in advance? ... How is that going to work ?
I don't like it at all if Bush knows the questions. That would be a farce, not a debate.
I keep hearing different things. Does anybody know for sure?
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:31 AM
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1. Just saw the moderator on Jon Stewart. He is making them up. He says that |
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he will not tell anyone what :eyes: they are
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:38 AM
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3. The moderator is making them up ??? |
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Do you mean he's already got selected questions from the audience?
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:46 AM
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5. No he said HE IS GOING TO MAKE THEM UP nothing from the audience at all |
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:42 AM
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4. I think Bob Scheiffer (sp?) is the moderator of the 3rd debate |
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I think the debate on Friday is the town hall debate
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:46 AM
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6. Yes but I swear I heard somewhere |
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that the questions will "pre-approved" in advance. Who is pre-approving them? Schieffer?
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:55 AM
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gawd, probably the Bush people. It wouldn't surprise me in the least. After he sucked at the first debate, he will want a bunch of soft questions for the grand finale.
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:57 AM
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8. No, that's for next week... |
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...he's the moderator for next weeks debate in Arizona. The debate THIS friday is in St. Louis, MO at Washington University. I've been asked by an attendee if I could come up with a few questions, but I've no idea. "Boxers or Briefs?"
Nah. Actually, I think I've got one. "Over the course of your lifetime, in what ways have you sought to actively engage those whose views have been differed markedly from your own?"
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Warren DeMontague
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Thu Oct-07-04 03:51 AM
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If the topic is foreign policy, hit them with this:
During the previous debate, John Kerry touched on the issue of fourteen US Military bases allegedly being built in Iraq. What is the status of these bases, and how does this impact our relationship with the Iraqi people, particularly their perception as to whether or not we are an occupying force? And specifically, does the United States have long term designs on Iraq, including an extended military presence there?
If the topic is domestic issues, hit them with this:
The Republican Platform calls for a Human Life Amendment that would define life with rights under the 14th amendment as beginning at conception. If this were made the law of the land, it would not only mean the criminalization of all abortions, but also the criminalization of In Vitro Fertilization and the criminalization of the birth control pill and other popular methods of contraception. Please explain your party's stance on the Human Life Amendment and whether or not you feel the birth control pill should become a controlled substance.
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Southern Patriot
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Thu Oct-07-04 11:14 AM
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Where'd you dig up the Repub platform? I thought that they hid that in an undisclosed location. I have yet to see a single reference to it in the media.
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Warren DeMontague
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:51 PM
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20. Here's a link to it in PDF Form: |
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http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/News/Politics/Conventions/RNC-2004platform.pdfAs a country, we must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and we endorse legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions. Another view of the HLA: http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/essays/hla.html
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:32 AM
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2. $8,418 on the line ... |
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http://onesimplequestion.blogspot.com/With this much money at stake, look for one of the questioners to ditch the script. It only takes 5 seconds to ask! How many times have you been arrested, Mr. President?
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:57 AM
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9. Debate Rules and Selection Criteria |
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Edited on Thu Oct-07-04 12:59 AM by actappan
The Commission on Presidential debates selects the atendees: http://www.debates.org/pages/news_041006.htmlThe moderator screens the questions: stipulate that audience questioners at the "town hall" debate Oct. 8 in St. Louis must have their questions pre-selected by moderator Charles Gibson of ABC. He is to "cut off" anyone who changes his or her questionhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-22-debates-rules_x.htmI don't believe that the candidates will have seen the questions. Then again, I didn't believe that they'd lie to get us involved in "a land war in asia." Edit to add: Here's a link to the campaigns agreement on the debate rules. http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/deb04main/debateagreement.pdf
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bush equals idiot
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Thu Oct-07-04 01:14 AM
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I still don't get who is going to know what.
Is Gibson going to go around in the audience and randomly select questions before the debate starts? Then he is going to appoint who can ask a question and have a duplicate copy of it so he can interrupt if it differs?
Or, is this audience selected already with questions being reviewed, and they will be notified?
Or, is Gibson going to ask the audiences questions?
Why is it being reported that the Bush campaign has said the questions have to be pre-approved? What does that mean?
What good would it do them to make an issue of it if the moderator was the one to approve the questions?
I'm just as confused as where I started. I bet I'm not the only one either that is concerned Bush may know the questions.
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actappan
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Thu Oct-07-04 11:23 AM
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. . . are apparently to be submitted in advance.
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Thu Oct-07-04 11:26 AM
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17. yes but only slightly LESS known is... |
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"never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!"
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Thu Oct-07-04 12:54 PM
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21. INCONCEIVABLE! I'll just go get myself a new giant. Do you want |
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to go back when I found you unemployed in GREENLAND?
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Thu Oct-07-04 01:13 AM
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Mr. President, Do you believe in titheing? Do you Tithe? Would that be the church in DC or in Texas?
Purpose would be to let his base know he doesnt' go to church. (False prophet)
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Thu Oct-07-04 02:31 AM
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Thu Oct-07-04 10:55 AM
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14. Do you have a question you would like to ask the president? |
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Thu Oct-07-04 11:30 AM
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18. I was thinking the same thing about Bush knowing the questions |
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but then I thought back to the questions in the first debate.
Were any of them not *completely* obvious? There were no tricks, surprises or gotchas. They were the first dozen questions you'd think of if you were going into a foreign policy debate. He had to have been prepped on them. Plus, he's the effing President of the United States.
And it didn't help.
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