Bush going on PRIMETIME TV again Monday - Should Kerry get equal time??

[jackstraw45]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&u=/afp/20040521/pl_afp/iraq_us_vote_bush_040521181205&printer=1

Bush to lay out Iraq strategy

BATON ROUGE, United States (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) will use a prime-time speech to brace Americans for more violence in Iraq (news - web sites) and lay out a "clear strategy" for that country's future, the White House said.


How is this new at all? Shouldn't this have been done in February 2003? Shouldn't Kerry get equal time or a response?

[Loonman]

1. Bleahh

More empty platitudes and the same old tired phrases.

If I hear Bush say "we will stay the course" one more time I'm going to lose it.

[Tina H]

2. Kerry should get equal time . . .

only to the extent that Dole got equal time in 1996 (I have no idea if he did or didn't).

what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the oppositely-gendered goose.

[jackstraw45]

4. Don't remember Clinton going on TV in Primetime every month....

to say nothing but the same tired slogans....am I wrong?

[Tina H]

5. so you would rewrite the equal time laws to depend . . .

on how often the president chooses to speechify?

or would you rewrite the equal time laws to depend on the quality of the president's speeches?

I don't think equal time laws depend on either of these factors right now, but I could be wrong. I don't think it would be wise to make equal time laws depend on the quality (or lack thereof) of the speeches. This just seems too subjective to me.

[jayfish]

8. Didn't A Few Networks Refuse To Run Some...

of Clinton's addresses because they were deemed "purely political"?

Time to dig a little.

Jay

[grasswire]

3. I hope the Dems pre-empt him.

Get out in front of this and get some face time NOW. That's the only way to neutralize this.

[cclark401]

6. With this misadministration

bush will only make a mess of it! His handlers will have him saying all kinds of stupid stuff, and he'll come away from the situation looking more dismal than he did going in. Trust me a dud is a dud is a dud and more and more Americans are recognizing him for what he truly is.

[peekaloo]

7. So the Blight House did not ask for major network time?

meaning just Fox and Comedy Central should carry it?

:shrug:

[mrgorth]

9. Kerry should do a dem response.