Democrat cowardice revealed in Fox "debate"

Joan Vennochi:

IF YOU can't face the bad boys of Fox News, how can you face the bad boys of Iraq or Iran?

Joe Biden wins this debate on style and substance before it even takes place.

The Delaware senator and presidential candidate said he will participate in a Fox News Channel debate in the fall , despite demands from liberal groups like Moveon.org that he back out of it.

That leaves Biden, former senator Mike Gravel of Alaska, and Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio as the only three Democrats committed to attending the forum scheduled for Sept. 23 in Detroit.

Even the event's cosponsor, the Congressional Black Caucus, isn't lure enough for five other Democrats who are running for president. Senators Hillary Clinton of New York, Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, and Barack Obama of Illinois, and former senator John Edwards of North Carolina, and Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico have all turned down Fox.

Note that Clinton didn't turn down Rupert Murdoch -- whose media empire includes the Fox News Channel -- when he threw a fund-raiser for her Senate reelection bid. That was symbolism she couldn't afford.

"For me, it's basic. I get elected because the African-American community supports me. . . . To say no to them, I don't get it," Biden said.

Besides, Biden added, he goes on Fox "to be the other voice. . . . To fight back. I'm tired of Democrats not fighting back."

Edwards, the first to back out of the debate, is the only candidate to give an official reason. His campaign said Fox programming tilts too much to the right.

So now, he and the other presidential candidates aren't just tilting to the left. They are genuflecting.

Assuming a down-on-their-knees position may feel good for the moment. But in the long run, it only gives the right wing fodder to use against the Democrats' quest to regain the White House.

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She notes that the Democrats are giving the Republicans an issue by kowtowing to MoveOn.org. She is right about that and right about the cowardice. It should also be noted that the best debate so far this year is the one Fox led of Republicans in South Carolina. It also got the biggest audience. Perhaps that is another thing that frightens Democrats.

Biden also points out that the other Democrat candidates are also ducking a debate on Iraq policy that The Financial Times and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies are trying to stage. Perhaps they are worried about having to do more zig-zagging on their position on the war and how to lose it.

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