1.   CNN and other networks deserve congratulations for sponsoring debates.

2.   After considering cancellation or postponement, both campaigns and the sponsoring debate commission agreed to go forward, with a moment of silence at the start.

3.   Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan said the sponsoring bipartisan debate commission had unfairly excluded him and other third-party candidates.

4.   Third-party candidates Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader said the sponsoring bipartisan debate commission had unfairly excluded them.