Kerry and Edwards go Head to Head on ABC News

[waylon]

From Drudge....

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

[revcarol]

1. Oh, but this wouldn't be a "debate."

IF this is true, and I say IF because this is from DRUDGE, both candidates need a lesson in democracy.Neither of them is fit to be president.

[lancdem]

2. They're certainly more fit than Bush is

[GainesT1958]

4. Which raises--indirectly--another question...

Does anybody think that Dub is going to find a way to "dodge" having debates at all this year? Right now I'd say it's 50-50 that he'll try and weasel out of it, whether he's facing either John Kerry OR John Edwards.

That one may be the FIRST fight our eventual nominee will have with the Bush campaign!:eyes:

B-)

[Finch]

3. Calm down...

The truth is that either Kerry (most likely) or Edwards will be the nominee and before Super Tuesday voters must be given the opportunity to decide between these two viable candidates... if your a Kucinich supporter more power to you... but we must be realistic here... I welcome this (if its true)should be a tough debate.. Kerry is a good debtor (witness his 1996 debates with Weld) but Edwards is excellent, I mean even better than Clinton... should be very interesting (and again I stress if its true)...

[aldian159]

10. Welcome to DU!

And I love the Jules quote.

[PurityOfEssence]

5. Care to explain that?

Why would accepting to meet on a program in the commercial media be somehow against democracy?

It wouldn't be against democracy for either of them to meet with one of the other surviving candidates either.

By what pronouncement is neither fit to be President?

While we're on the subject, just who IS fit for the office?

[spooky3]

8. but that depends on how you define "democracy"

If you define it as any candidate regardless of delegates earned after 17 primaries deserves to be in the debate if he or she has not withdrawn from the race, then other Democratic candidates should be included. And with this definition, I have a hard time seeing how you would exclude LaRouche.

But if you view what has happened at this stage, as a democratic process, flawed as it may be, whereby primary voters have had reasonable opportunity to express their preferences, then it is unfair to label a 1-1 debate as undemocratic or tar the candidates by calling them unfit to be president.

[maddezmom]

6. from ABC

http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/ThisWeek/

[waylon]

7. This is too stupid.....

"No politics, no process no gotcha,” said George Stephanopoulos. “We want to focus the candidates and the voters on the big differences over the big issues."


What the hell IS the process if not politics? What the hell is the point of a debate if there's not "gotcha"? How the hell do you focus on the big differences over big issues without bloodying a few noses? This sounds like a pansy contest orchestrated by a pandering fool. I really dont care for stephanaopoppooolupus

I think I might actually sit that one out.

[flpoljunkie]

9. ABC's The Note Reported this earlier today, Kerry & Edwards on separately

And build your weekend around this — in an exclusive, this Sunday morning on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," get what every Democratic voter deserves and every political and media insider wants to see: John Kerry and John Edwards talking about the issues.

No process, no polls, no "who wants to be whose running mate?". Just the issues.

You'll see this nowhere else: the two men will explain in depth their views and plans for America on the big issues: jobs and taxes, trade, health care, Iraq, and the war against terror.

That's this Sunday morning on "This Week," with the two men talking to George Stephanopoulos.

Kerry-Edwards, head-to-head.

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No so fast. Not quite head to head.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/ThisWeek/Politics/kerry_edwards_040220.html

Feb. 20 — Democratic presidential front-runners Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and John Edwards, D-N.C., will go head to head on ABCNEWS' This Week with George Stephanopoulos in separate interviews airing this Sunday.

[mistertrickster]

11. Check this quote from Snuggleupagus . . .

“No politics, no process no gotcha,” said George Stephanopoulos. “We want to focus the candidates and the voters on the big differences over the big issues.”

Oh nice, George . . . why couldn't we have gotten that when Dean and Clark were still in the race. Then it was nothing but "politics, process, and gotcha."

[littlejoe]

12. coming from Drudge, I'll believe it when.I see it! n/t