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Armstrong Williams: Ninety minutes and you're President?: "In the 44 years since, television has become incredibly successful in using images to reduce complex issues into sound bites. The presidential debates we remember are those where our demagogues manage to shine. Who can forget Ronald Reagan gazing into the camera in 1980 and imploring the viewers to ask themselves, 'are you better off than you were four years ago?' What do we remember - or even know - about Lloyd Bentsen other than that during the 1988 vice-presidential debate he snorted at Dan Quayle, 'Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.' It was a perfect sound bite - short, succinct, terse and guaranteed to solicit a knee-jerk reaction from viewers. That remark carried the day, though not the election, for Bentsen."