Tonight’s debate is going to suck. As I mentioned in my VP debate post, what we’re going to hear tonight is more talk from two politicians who think they are responsible for creating jobs, improving the economy, and spending the private sector’s money to solve the private sector’s problems.
What might possibly be interesting is Badnarik’s claim that he’s either going to debate tonight or be arrested. That article would be more appropriately titled “Badnarik will be arrested tonight.”
I’m not sure if this story will make the news, or it will just be a small-time unmentionable story, dismissed as a sideshow – like most third parties.
Indeed, Badnarik and Cobb (the Green Party candidate) were arrested.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/election2004/story/C5E191143DCACB1286256F2800113629?OpenDocument
“While the debate was in progress, Cobb and Badnarik moved back to the opposite side of campus, along Skinker, where they broke through a police line in a symbolic gesture and were arrested.”