toilet paper, white roses, and vanilla aromatherapy candles. obama and romney have demands, too, all in a 21-page debate agreement. identical director's chairs with backs and footrests, and each candidate must stay in his, quote, predesignated area. no wandering around the stage like john mccain or charging your opponent like al gore. and like football, lots of coin tosses. coin flips determines who sits where and who gets the first question. past candidates had demands too. al gore worried about sweating, wanted the room 55 degrees, and michael dukakis, who, as you can see, was quite a bit shorter than the elder george bush, negotiated a little boost hidden beneath the carpet behind the podium. take a look at that again. as dukakis goes back behind the podium, he also gets up onto something that the commission called the "pitcher's mound," and suddenly he's just about as tall as george bush. and check out how jon stewart boosted his height against bill o'reilly, but the obama/romney