Sun. & Tues. debates: I'll live-blog both

There are two more (Two more? Already?!?) presidential candidate debates coming up, and I will live-blog them both.

This Sunday, the Democrats take center stage. Obviously, I'm more anxious to see this one than the upcoming GOP debate, but not by much. I have to admit, when the debates have this many candidates in them, it's more like a glorified press conference. And the questions from the audience that the moderators choose to ask are for the most part absurd - probably the dumbest so far was when Chris Matthews chose to ask the GOP candidates "What do you think about Bill Clinton being back in the White House?"

I hope and expect that CNN's Wolf Blitzer, an excellent journalist on a network mostly devoid of them, will do a much better job. One thing's for sure - the previous moderators have not set the bar very high.

On Tuesday, it's the GOP's turn. The one burning thing I can't wait to see is if 10 white men can possibly try to "out war monger" each other any more than they did in the last debate. This is more of a question than a statement, but I found the whole spectacle equal parts funny, pathetic and frightening. Is the base of the Republican Party really this blood thirsty? If you think I'm exaggerating, go back and look at the footage from the debates. (It's readily available online, but try YouTube if you're reeeeeeeeally bored today and I'm sure you can pull up clips with no problem.) The thing I'm looking for in this one is how well Rudy protects his franchise, 9-11, and whether he goes after Ron Paul for being right on 9-11 and our foreign policy that helped provoke the attack.

Anyway the Sunday debate begins at 7 p.m., and I'll be in front of the tube, on my laptop.