IF SHE IS SO FRIKING READY TO BE VICE PRESIDENT, WHY SHOULD IT BE THORNIER.? I THOUGHT SHE WAS READY TO LEAD, SHE SHOULD BE READY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS

Obama And McCain Agree To Free-Flowing Debate Format Paper: Palin Will Be Shielded By VP Debate Format

Negotiations over the rules for Gov. Sarah Palin�s debate with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. were thornier than those over the debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.

Format of Biden-Palin Debate Sets No Limit on Subject Matter

By Robert G. Kaiser
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 21, 2008; Page A10
Negotiators for the campaigns of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama agreed yesterday on a format for the Oct. 2 debate between Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., resolving an issue left open in August after the campaigns settled on the structure of the three presidential debates, according to sources involved in the talks.

Under the plan agreed to yesterday, Palin and Biden will have less time than McCain and Obama to reply to moderators" questions and discuss each other"s answers. And there will be no guidelines given to Gwen Ifill of PBS, moderator of the vice presidential debate, as to subject matter, allowing her to mix in questions about foreign and domestic matters, the sources said.

Both sides were satisfied with the final agreement, the sources said. The Commission on Presidential Debates, the independent nonprofit organization that manages these quadrennial events, had hoped the campaigns would agree to the same longer segments for the vice presidential aspirants that were adopted in August for the presidential debates.
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