Bush cringes when debates are mentioned
Harry Hope
From The New York Daily News, 8/7/00:
http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-08-06/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-75704.asp
SCHOOLCRAFT, Mich.
George W. Bush is committed to debating Vice President Gore in the
fall, but sources close to the Texas governor say he might not agree
to the three presidential debates already scheduled for October by a
nonpartisan commission.
These well-placed sources told the Daily News there's a vigorous
"debate about debates" inside the Bush high command about how many
mano-a-mano encounters the Texas governor should have.
Other officials say campaign chairman Don Evans, one of Bush's closest
friends, has told associates that Bush probably will opt for just two.
Bush reportedly told aides pressing him to settle the matter that he
didn't want to deal with it until after the GOP convention, so a
decision could come fairly soon.
The Commission on Presidential Debates already has announced debates
for Oct. 3 in Boston; Oct. 11 in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Oct. 17 in
St. Louis. A vice presidential debate will be held Oct. 5 in Danville,
Ky.
It's been widely assumed Bush would show up at all three presidential
debates.
But a key Bush aide said, "You shouldn't assume anything about debates
other than there will be some."
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We'll see.
Harry
"I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time
debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember."
George W. Bush - On discussions of the Vietnam War when he was an
undergraduate at Yale, Washington Post, July 27, 1999
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"Harry Hope" <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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>
> From The New York Daily News, 8/7/00:
>
http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-08-06/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-75704
.asp
>
>
> SCHOOLCRAFT, Mich.
>
> George W. Bush is committed to debating Vice President Gore in the
> fall, but sources close to the Texas governor say he might not agree
> to the three presidential debates already scheduled for October by a
> nonpartisan commission.
>
> These well-placed sources told the Daily News there's a vigorous
> "debate about debates" inside the Bush high command about how many
> mano-a-mano encounters the Texas governor should have.
>
> Other officials say campaign chairman Don Evans, one of Bush's closest
> friends, has told associates that Bush probably will opt for just two.
>
>
> Bush reportedly told aides pressing him to settle the matter that he
> didn't want to deal with it until after the GOP convention, so a
> decision could come fairly soon.
>
> The Commission on Presidential Debates already has announced debates
> for Oct. 3 in Boston; Oct. 11 in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Oct. 17 in
> St. Louis. A vice presidential debate will be held Oct. 5 in Danville,
> Ky.
>
> It's been widely assumed Bush would show up at all three presidential
> debates.
>
> But a key Bush aide said, "You shouldn't assume anything about debates
> other than there will be some."
Perhaps Gore can debate Nader at the third debate; to see which comes in
third.
John
No more Clinton/gore
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benrand
And maybe they should talk to Jim Fallows at Atlantic Monthly who said Gore
got creamed in the Quayle debate.
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