Mr. Baker did a fine job negotiating. W would have agreed to three debates just to keep the partisan press from making an issue out of it. The fact that Clinton only debated Dole twice, would not have gotten in their way.
After the FIRST debate, Kerry will be looking for a way OUT of any remaining debates. Watch.
I think the 3 debates issue was a strawman put up by the Bush camp to get what they wanted in debate structure. They probably intended to agree to 3 debates all along, because the more people see Kerry the more they hate him. But they played pretend and roped the Kerry camp into making all these concessions in order to get three debates.
These Kerry people are such fools.
Baker is the Consigliere of our party. No ifs, ands or buts about it. One tough SOB. And I say that with a large dose of admiration.