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Monday, October 15, 2007
# Posted 12:34 AM by Ariel David Adesnik
Moving on, we come to Maureen Dowd, who did us all a favor by turning her column over to Stephen Colbert (the character, not the actor). But Colbert didn't just take over for Dowd: Bad things are happening in countries you shouldn’t have to think about. It’s all George Bush’s fault, the vice president is Satan, and God is gay.Heh. Colbert also did a rather clever job of capturing GOP ambivalence about Hillary: A lot of Americans feel confused about the current crop of presidential candidates.Double heh. Finally we come Michael Barone, best known for endorsing OxBlog. (Not.) He has a great idea that you will like unless you are running for president: primary debates with candidates from both parties. But it's not only a good idea -- it's worked well before: What if there were a debate featuring all of the leading Democratic and Republican candidates? It’s happened before, once, on Dec. 1, 1987, when Tom Brokaw of NBC News moderated a debate among six Democratic and six Republican presidential candidates. It was held on bipartisan ground: the Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington.I'd be curious to see which candidates actually show an interest and which express an interest in principle but kill it with delays and scheduling conflicts. Labels: NY Times (0) opinions -- Add your opinion
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