A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
No two people see things the same way.
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.