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the debates are the culmination of television's staging of the presidential campign as sporting event.
no worries about excess content.
no worries about coherent presentation of complex issues.
if kerry seems smarter than bush (which is not unlikely) then commentary can turn to weight class, wondering why a middleweight is fighting a flyweight and dont you feel sympathetic to the flyweight who of course is getting pummelled out there simply because you cant expect a flyweight to compete with a middleweight and so the evaluation of the debates as event becomes shifted onto absurd criteria as well.
personally, i think the evening would be better spent trying to work out important questions of great moment, like why would an establishment that is advertising a "hookah night" also brag about the fact that they put white wine in the pipes? why would you do that?
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