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Presidential Debates, PBS, and SNL
Next Thursday will be the first debate between Bush and Kerry. Last Friday, PBS's Now with Bill Moyers discussed some problems with today's presidential debates. Now talked about how the presidential debates used to be run by the League of Women Voters. However, the two parties got together in the late 80's and set up the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Now the CPD runs the debates and has essentially turned the debates into dual campaign speeches. The CPD makes sure that nothing might happen that could make the candidates look bad.
Well, even though the debates aren't going to be as free-format as we would hope, it'll still be better than the conventions and the campaign speeches. At least there should be some back and forth discussion.
The best presidential debate that I remember was the 1992 Bush/Clinto/Perot debate. It's amazing that Ross Perot was able to get into this debate (This was after CPD took charge). Perot was lucky since both parties thought Perot would hurt the other guy more. Perot's presence made for a very useful and entertaining debate.
Also entertaining was Saturday Night Live's spoof on this debate. Dana Carvey played both Bush and Perot. His imitation of Perot was classic. Here is a quote from Carvey in this spoof debate that I still remember:
As we've been playing games here, the national debt has gone up by 3.2 million dollars. That's enough to buy an outhouse and a still for every man, woman, and child in Littlerock.
- Dana Carvey (as Ross Perot)
