Introducing Bush or Kerry--The Positive Blog

A lot of people decry the negative campaigning so prevalent in today's elections, but nobody does anything about it. If there are two people more unlikely people to change that around, it's Paul and I. I (along with my co-blogger Kitty) run the Kerry Haters blog, a non-stop effort to treat John F. Kerry like a pinata. Paul runs the Bush-Haters blog, which provides complementary (not complimentary) treatment to George W. Bush.

But for this blog, things are going to be different. Paul and I have agreed to debate the issues here solely by promoting our candidates without taking any potshots at Nuancy Boy or the Smirking Chimp (well, without taking any more potshots anyway). We have agreed that we can mention the other candidate's positions, but only to draw distinctions. In other words, I can't ridicule Kerry's position on tax cuts, I can only promote Bush's position on tax cuts. Similarly, Paul cannot criticize the Bush's policy on Iraq, he can only promote Kerry's proposals.

For now, there will only be two posts on each issue; that may change if Paul and I reach agreement. The person going first will have the right to choose the issue being discussed, and the person going second will have the right to riff off the first person's post, but again, only to promote their side, not to knock down the other's. This may be a little tricky at times, but we both agree to use our best efforts to keep the debate positive on our candidate and not negative on the other guy.

At some point we intend to add guest bloggers to debate issues, but this will be worked out later.

Anything you'd like to add here, Paul?