Do you plan on watching the debates?

[CatWoman]

I think I have to -- if for nothing else but sheer curiosity.

[Rowdyboy]

1. Certainly

All three, if we're lucky enough to get three

[CatWoman]

3. hey, sweetie!!!

:hi:

[Endangered Specie]

2. The campus is going to project in the cinema hall...

YOu bet Ill be there, if only to help cheer, cause you know the repos will be there, and they will be loud.


There is also an improptu q/a debate scheduled.


Plus, well be registering folks too :)

[Mojambo]

4. I'll read a transcript. n/t

I have a difficult time concentrating on what Bush says watching live.

[Warpy]

13. I'll be online, just like I was the last time

half listening and engaging in a running commentary with other IRC geeks. It was hilarious the last time, and I'm expecting a repeat.

[AndyP]

5. we're making it a drinking party

everytime Bush get's that shit-eating grin of his, or says something that's a blatant lie, we are going to drink. Plan to be plastered by the end of it. :beer:

[Paradise]

22. That is too funny! :) n/t

[DebJ]

6. We're having a party. The more the merrier! Come on by!

[Beaverhausen]

7. Yes

but watching next week while visitng my repub parents will be hard.

[City Lights]

8. Absolutely.

In fact, I'm supposed to participate in some sort of interactive poll conducted in conjunction with CBS and Cox cable. I agreed to watch the debates on CBS, where questions are supposed to appear on my t.v. screen. I'm supposed to be able to answer the questions using my remote. My household is looking forward to heaping praise on Kerry while dumping on the chimp.

[faithnotgreed]

14. now that sounds awesome. do tell us what the questions were!

oooh those could be good esp if they were really interactive!

[City Lights]

38. I just re-read my email on this and it only applies to the

10-13 debate in Tempe. I thought it was for all three. :spank: Oh well, one is better than none, and I'm still going to watch all three.

[in_cog_ni_to]

62. How cool!

Bash 'em good! You can't praise Kerry enough and you can't say enough BAD things about the chimp. What fun!

[Voltaire]

9. I'll watch because. . .

There's nothing like Vaudeville!

[slinkerwink]

10. yes, I'm inviting my friend over to watch it for a couple of beers

[NV Whino]

11. No TV reception

And can't bear to listen to the son of a bush. Nearly threw my radio out the door during his convention speech--I only lasted for 7 minutes. I'll catched his flubbed highlights on the web in the morning.

[n2mark]

12. Yes!

Won't miss the circus!

[Scootman78]

15. Only in hopes that Kerry breaks all the rules

It would be awesome if near the beginning of the debate, Kerry turned and stared at Bush for about four seconds before saying, "You disgust me"

...or...

"Well well, well. You know, I would ask if you're proud of the mess you've gotten this country into, but of course I'm not allowed to ask any questions."

I've heard some other poster say the first comment already on these boards, but I just wanted to repeat it and also put in my line about how Kerry could get away with a line.

[coalition_unwilling]

36. My debate fantasy . . .

That Kerry immediately says, "Since Bush insisted there be no questions between the candidates one to the other, I'd like to ask these questions directly to the American people:

1) Do you feel safer now than you did on Nov. 2, 2000?
2) Do you approve of how the situation in Iraq is going?
3) Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?"

This is such an appealing fantasy - I find myself thinking about it constantly - that I wouldn't be surprised if Kerry actually does it, or something much like it.

[Cha]

44. Good Scenario!

Lay it right out there on the table!

[DrWeird]

16. No.

Haven't got the nerves.

This will be where Kerry wins or loses the election.

[AlCzervik]

17. I'll be watching with my 10 year old, her class is doing a whole

section on this election. She will be doing a report for her class.

[Terran]

18. Me too

I can't abide that man, but I want to see them together on the same stage. I'm hoping against hope for some kind of Bush melt-down!

[CatWoman]

30. Hi, Precious!!!

:hi:

watching Hardball right now.

Rev Al is speaking for the Kerry camp -- talking about all the strict "guidelines" for the debates.

[Terran]

41. Hey Midori!

:hi:

[cally]

19. I'm just not sure yet

I've been invited a few places, but I have not committed yet. I think I may watch off and on at home. I wake up every morning worrying about it. I'm a little too involved I think.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

20. I have paralegal class

Thrusday night. I'll tape it and watch when I get home.

[leftchick]

21. I may peek a time or two...

while flipping channels. I just do not have the stomach to watch a fake cowboy dumbass,lying, asshole propped up, emboldened and enabled by our AmeriKan run media go head to head with a Hero who is articulate, compassionate and a true patriot get lambasted for being the real winner.

I may need a double vodka to even peek.....

[mopaul]

23. yes

morbid curiosity. we'll surely have a DU thread going live.

[CatWoman]

37. *meow*

:hi:

[T Bone]

24. yes, when Kerry holds up the Crawford TX newspaper that endorses HIM

it will be game set match for this election ! woohoo !

[mopaul]

25. yes

morbid curiosity. surely we'll have a DU live thread going.

[greekspeak]

26. No I am going to be in a lecture at that time

But I do not know if I could watch what will undoubtedly be a staged ambush on Mr. Kerry. I hope that the media whores running the show remember to bring smelling salts for when they get the vapors over swooning for Shrub. I personally hope they get Chimpy McGoonerson all liquored and coked up and stick him out there. No wait...then he would have a pulse.

[MsConduct]

27. If we don't, we might run out.....

of things to argue with the repulsive ones with! LOL



Peace

[Malva Zebrina]

28. Probably

and if it turns out to be the same farce that the Gore/Bush debates were and the gushing over Bush by the media, declaring him a winner when he was not, I will not watch the next two.

[LaPera]

29. No matter what the cable news will declare Bush the winner and never

expose Bush's lies...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/opinion/28krugman.html?hp

"Let's face it: whatever happens in Thursday's debate, cable news will proclaim President Bush the winner. This will reflect the political bias so evident during the party conventions. It will also reflect the undoubted fact that Mr. Bush does a pretty good Clint Eastwood imitation.

But what will the print media do? Let's hope they don't do what they did four years ago.

Interviews with focus groups just after the first 2000 debate showed Al Gore with a slight edge. Post-debate analysis should have widened that edge. After all, during the debate, Mr. Bush told one whopper after another - about his budget plans, about his prescription drug proposal and more. The fact-checking in the next day's papers should have been devastating.

But as Adam Clymer pointed out yesterday on the Op-Ed page of The Times, front-page coverage of the 2000 debates emphasized not what the candidates said but their "body language." After the debate, the lead stories said a lot about Mr. Gore's sighs, but nothing about Mr. Bush's lies. And even the fact-checking pieces "buried inside the newspaper" were, as Mr. Clymer delicately puts it, "constrained by an effort to balance one candidate's big mistakes" - that is, Mr. Bush's lies - "against the other's minor errors."

The result of this emphasis on the candidates' acting skills rather than their substance was that after a few days, Mr. Bush's defeat in the debate had been spun into a victory."

[young_at_heart]

61. This happened last time.........I remember being shocked

It seemed so very obvious that Bush didn't have what it takes in 2000 after the first "debate" and yet these news people said he was the clear winner. My family was dumbfounded........now we know what's going on and it's not a pretty picture!

[UTUSN]

31. AbsoLUTEly! Have Already Stocked a Bottle of Whiskey

for various possibilities---cheering, yelling, throwing----so get yourself OVER here, my last CW.

And I'm letting slide the "Sweeties" and "Precious"es, like, how do you change a cat's meow?!

[CatWoman]

32. LOL

I saved "Doll" for you!!!!

:hi:

[Cleita]

33. I have always felt watching the debates to be my civic

duty. But there have been so many arbitrary rules thrown up for these debates that I almost don't feel like giving them my time. What kind of lame rule is it that the questions that are going to be asked have to be submitted before the debate so they can have the answers ready? That's not a debate. That's a stage show. I'm really disappointed.

[Fleshdancer]

34. Yep. I trick myself every four years that the debates will be interesting

and then I sit through the entire thing, yell the same comments at the TV...the most popular being "just answer the f*cking question already!" and then bitch and moan about how I just watched over an hour of people talking without really ever saying a thing. And then I patiently wait for the next debate and start the whole process over again.

:D

[Misunderestimator]

35. I'm going to a Debate Party!

:party:

Find one near you:

http://www.johnkerry.com/events/

[Forkboy]

39. Why not?

I might as well torture myself in preperation for the Red Sox playoffs.

[CatWoman]

40. HEY YOU!!!!

Where the hell have you been?????!!!?????

:hi:

:loveya:

[Forkboy]

45. I was busy trying to find an oven big enough to stick my head in

Do you have any idea how hard it is to kill yourself with EZ-Bake Oven? That light bulb just dont cut it! All I got was a slight burn on my forehead. When I pulled my head out some kid tried to slap some icing on it. :shrug:

:loveya: right backatcha! :)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

51. LOL-Ain't that the truth!

:hi:

[efhmc]

42. No.(Edited to add this, just in case anyone is interested, which I doubt.)

Will be at the ranch and don't stop working until dark thirty. If it is still going and I have a snout full of good champagne, I just might.

[CatWoman]

46. As a matter of fact, I was going to ask why not

:D

[LeinesRed]

43. I've promised myself I won't sit through the post-debate spin

but it's like a car wreck...

[B Calm]

47. I'll only watch it on C Span

no cable news channel spin.

[RollergirlVT]

48. yes on C-Span

[napi21]

49. Yea, absolutely! I don't want to depend on spin to know the truth.

I will have several beers ready to be able to see shrub for 90 mins, but I'll be watching.

[Skittles]

50. can't

because I know all Bush has to do is utter a couple of coherent sentences for the media to declare him the winner. Can't take it.

[Cleita]

53. I feel the same way.

:-(

[CatWoman]

55. SKITTLES!!!!!!!!!!

:hi:

I was about to post in the lounge asking of your whereabouts.

Haven't seen you around.

[eridani]

52. No--I'll get the transcript and excerpts from the Internet n/t

[Silverhair]

54. I haven't missed a one since the Kennedy - Nixon debates.

Of course I plan to watch.

[CatWoman]

56. LOL -- My grumpy friend, Silverhair

:hi:

[Beetwasher]

57. I Don't Know Yet

I haven't decided if it would be healthy for me to do so...There's a very real possibility my head will explode or worse, I could damage the tv and then how would I watch football?

I'll probably try not to, just like I try not to slow down and look at accidents when I'm driving, but you always end up shooting a glance at it anyway...:shrug:

[Liberal_Dog]

58. I Plan On Watching

Plus I will be watching on Friday to see how the media spins it in Bu$h's favor.

[young_at_heart]

59. Are they really "debates"?

I remember debates from college and I don't think that's what we'll be seeing. Bush will do short and simple sentences that endear him to those who don't know or care about anything....oh, and he'll do a lot of folksy smiling!

[IcyPeas]

60. no, they are not "debates"...

young at heart. saw a guy on Lou Dobbs tonight from opendebates.org and it made me sad - because these are just not debates -- it's all phoney and scripted...... makes you wish there were more than two parties participating.

[CatWoman]

64. I put most of the blame on *

he can't go to the bathroom without a script.

[GOPNotForMe]

63. My roomies and I are having a debate party.

We found a debate drinking game, too. Heh.