Tamas Feher wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3730364.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/....ap/index.html


His security team required him to wear a bullet-resistant vest.



Of course. The thing is a box between his shoulders on the back, nothing
like a falk jacket. Look at the photos at CNN and BBC. Witnesses saw
there was something in his ear.

I don't know what Peter Falk had to do with the debate (although I do
know that he wears a pretty ratty jacket in "Columbo"), but since there
were so many rules;
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/...te.highlights/ ;
would they not have made sure that Bush, and also Kerry, did not have a
'prop', or 'life line'?