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Two Cents: If only...

Here are few things I would love to see happen during tonight's debate:

*As the debate starts, Charlie Gibson, the debate moderator, announces that he's giving up his moderator chair to John O'Neill.

*When told that the unemployment rate is too high, Bush sticks it to Kerry that a 5.4% unemployment rate ain't too shabby, especially considering the praise Clinton received for a 5.6% unemployment rate.

*John Kerry complains about a "shrinking middle class" and President Bush informs the senator that the reason that class is shrinking is because they're moving into higher brackets, not lower.

*Immediately after he offers his obligatory praise of Kerry's service to our country, President Bush denounces Kerry's anti-American activities upon his return from Vietnam -- including his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relation Committee, his Paris meeting with the enemy, and his continued refusal to apologize for his actions.

*Teresa Heinz-Kerry jumps up in the middle of the debate and derides anyone who dares to question her husband. Embarrassed, John Kerry can only say that he admires his wife's courage to speak her mind.

*As soon has Kerry starts talking about the President's failure to build a coalition in Iraq, Bush begins listing the countries involved in the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal and then asks if John Kerry was hoping that those are the nations Kerry hopes to recruit and believes we can trust when it comes to fighting a war in Iraq.

*Kerry remembers, longingly, the good ol' days of the Soviet Union and why a nuclear freeze actually would have been a good thing.

*In a sudden fit of honesty, Kerry jovially admits that he we just kidding about raising taxes on those making more than $200K per year, stating, "Obviously that was a joke -- everybody gets a tax hike. How did you think I was going to pay for all this crap?"

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