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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-04 10:58 PM
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Why do the candidates even go on these Faux debates.
they need to as a group boycott them, and let a fairer media outlet take the reigns. Its apparent after tonight ( if it wasn't already) our boys will never get a fair shake by going on fox "news".
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Jack_Dawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-04 10:59 PM
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1. Agreed. Except $100,000 Lieberman will still go. So let him.
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-04 11:01 PM
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2. A one man debate
defeats the purpose, let him go on, the rest should take the higer road and avoid fox news at all cost.
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-04 11:03 PM
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3. No closing statements, moderator confusion
Irrelevant questions. It was almost as bad as the Koppel fiasco.

Per the closing statements, did I miss something, or did this thing just end mysteriously around 9:45?
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Ramsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-04 11:03 PM
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4. The post-debate wrap-up
That totally cracked me up. They trashed Clark, ignored Dean except once again to mention the "scream", poo-pooed Sharpton, Kucinich same old blah blah blah, and Kerry too liberal, and just went off on how great Lieberman is. The Democrats through wingnut eyes.
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Democat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-04 11:11 PM
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5. Because Democrats are too wimpy to say "no" to Republicans
Edited on Thu Jan-22-04 11:12 PM by Democat
Allowing Fox control over the Democratic debates is like letting Fred Phelps have control over a Gay Pride festival.

It's the same reason we keep losing - because our side is generally a bunch of cowards and wimps. We don't have the fighters that the Republicans have.

If a Democrat had done exactly what Bush did for the last three years, he would be impeached and his popularity would be at 3% by now. Instead, our Democrats have helped build up Bush's credibility and popularity.

The whole party is broken. I don't know how to fix it, other than waiting many years for a new generation of fighting Democrats to take over.

Daschle is still the Democratic head of the Senate. What more needs to be said to prove that we aren't learning from our mistakes?
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-04 11:15 PM
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6. Now there's the quote of the week!
"Allowing Fox control over the Democratic debates is like letting Fred Phelps have control over a Gay Pride festival." :evilgrin:
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