Every four years politophiles gather around their screens and watch the presidential bullfighting. We call it the presidential debates, but it really is like a political cage match for our personal entertainment. We pit two alpha males/Females against each other and let their brains and body language battle. The whole spectacle exists because Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas sat around a tree stump seven times and debated the issues of their time.

Now the tree stumps have long been discarded to history’s ashbin while perfectly manicured television studio stages took their place. There is something inherent in our DNA that loves this kind of thing. We collectively look forward to it every four years. We reminisce about the old days when John F. Kennedy would face off with Richard Milhous Nixon. We recall the dirty tricks with the air conditioning and making Nixon sweat in front of seventy million people.

Back then Richard refused to put on make-up and his five-clock facial stubble showed dramatically on people’s black-and-white television screens. During the first debate, Richard Nixon started sweating up a storm under WBBM-TV, Chicago studio lights. Richard wore a light gray suit that faded into the background of the set. The whole thing was a disaster for Nixon whose mother immediately called him and asked whether he was ill.

We hark back to the days of Ronald Reagan facing off with Jimmy Carter. Reagan handing Carter his ass when he said four little words “There you go again” and asked Americans whether they were better off than they were four years ago in front of eighty-million viewers. It was an ass whipping extraordinaire and Carter had no chance against the affable Reagan. Even back then we were in no short of dirty tricks when Reagan’s presidential campaign was accused of having access to Carter’s internal debate briefing materials.

Speaking of dirty tricks, who can forget the debates between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton? The first of three presidential debates set the record as the most-watched debate in American history when eighty-four million people tuned in. During this trilogy scandal broke out when the Former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile admitted sending town hall topics to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, claiming it a “mistake I will forever regret.” CNN dropped Donna like a hot potato when it all came out, she was a paid political analyst for years there.

Going into the next presidential debate with Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden, the Left just hopes Joe can stand for that long in his obvious frail condition. Trump supporters on the other hand were holding their breath hoping Donald does not interrupt Joe constantly or make an ass out of himself. There are many storylines surrounding the ninety-minute debate on June 27^th, 2024 between the two presidents. It is possible that this debate could break the all-time record Trump created with Clinton. After all, he is a genius when it comes to promoting all sorts of things. Even his detractors have to admit that.

C. Rich

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