This election cycle’s schedule of Presidential debates has been announced, and they look to be as boring an uninformative as ever:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Paul G. Kirk, Jr. and Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., co-chairmen of the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), today announced the moderators for the 2008 general election presidential and vice presidential debates. The moderators, and the schedule and locations for the debates (as announced on November 21, 2007), are as follows:
First presidential debate
Friday, September 26
The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.
Jim Lehrer
Executive Editor and Anchor, The NewsHour, PBSVice presidential debate
Thursday, October 2
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
Gwen Ifill
Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour, and Moderator and Managing Editor,
Washington Week, PBSSecond presidential debate (town meeting)
Tuesday, October 7
Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn.
Tom Brokaw
Special Correspondent, NBC NewsThird presidential debate
Wednesday, October 15
Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.
Bob Schieffer
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent, and Host, Face the NationEach debate will begin at 9:00 p.m. EDT.
The town meeting debate is always death and has been ever since they started using that particularly worthless format back in 1992, but the other two look promising, and at least they’ve sent Gwen Ifill off to moderate the “debate” for the most useless position in government.
H/T: Donklephant
