Quid pro quo

John Kerry's desperate? He thinks he needs debates--the more, the better--to try to reverse the campaign's momentum? Well, James Baker (Bush) and Vernon Jordan (Kerry) are hammering out the ground rules, and Jay Ornellas suggests a condition that Baker may want to impose:

We will not even negotiate until Kerry does what Bush already has done--release all of his medical and military records. No quibbling, no exceptions.