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During the first presidential and vice presidential debates, Bob Dole and Jack Kemp were hit by Medicare attacks from Bill Clinton and Al Gore some 22 times.
Anyone who thinks that consilience is banal or obvious is invited to read my debates with the sociologist Alan Wolfe in Slate and with the biologist Steven Rose in Edge.
So, these being the state of affairs, couldn't the debates at least be amusing?
The rampant civility of the presidential and vice-presidential debates is enough to make me wanna give somebody a mouthful of bloody Chiclets.
But it was during the much feistier encounter on Meet The Press this morning--the most contentious of the primary debates so far--that Bradley finally came into his own.