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In accord with JimRob's guidelines, only the first few paragraphs of this are posted on FR. The balance can be found by clicking on the link.

I thought Freepers might want the opportunity to see how their colleague's campaign for Congress is going. All comments are welcome.

The 1st Report, and also my two major News Releases to date, are also newly on my website.

John Armor / Congressman Billybob

1 posted on 03/23/2006 6:02:59 PM PST by Congressman Billybob

To: Congressman Billybob

2 posted on 03/23/2006 6:08:18 PM PST by Gipper08 (Mike Pence in 2008)

To: Congressman Billybob

...it points out that the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 began the American tradition that live, face-to-face debates are the best way for voters to judge between (among) candidates. It challenges the civic associations in some two dozen towns to get together,. choose a hall, and invite all four of the candidates to appear for a debate.

John, I'm interested in your definition of debate. When we talk of "debate" nowadays, we're really talking about joint press conferences. There is no cross-questioning or anything one would expect from a classical debate.

In the early Nineties, the Lincoln-Douglas debates were staged by re-enactors in the same towns in Illinois where the original debates took place. I saw all the debates on CSPAN and was struck by the difference in formats. While the more formal language of 1858 was difficult to parse, I could see where Lincoln and Douglas did a point/counterpoint that is foreign to today's politics.

Are you planning something like that or what we call "debates" today?

3 posted on 03/23/2006 6:11:05 PM PST by Publius

To: Congressman Billybob

4 posted on 03/23/2006 6:13:33 PM PST by concentric circles

To: Congressman Billybob

Googling "Charles Taylor" + "candidate" - "dictator" lowers the count to around 231,000 hits.

Googling "Charles Taylor" + "candidate" - "Liberia" lowers the count to around 132,000 hits.

Whether

1) that is excluding references to the former Liberian head of state who is being extradited back to Liberia from Nigeria to be tried for war crimes, or

2) there are a large number of extremely unflattering articles about the 11th District incumbent, I cannot say from this limited amount of research.

:-)

7 posted on 03/26/2006 3:16:57 PM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)

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