As bad as that town hall presidential debate was on Tuesday (it was the worst), a lot of it could be blamed on the terrible format, the weird lights, and Tom Brokaw's incessant whining. So the third and final debate next Wednesday in New York is going to be better right?

Not if Bob Schieffer has anything to do with it. The anchor of CBS's Face the Nation is moderating, and yes, it will also be the worst debate:

"It's going to be very, very interesting. The whole election may turn on that last debate," Schieffer said.

After watching the first two debates between the presidential and vice presidential candidates, Schieffer said that he's going to try to make sure that the candidates answer his questions. In the vp debate with PBS' Gwen Ifill, neither candidate hewed precisely to the topic at hand, and GOP vp candidate Sarah Palin said flat out that she wasn't going to answer some questions.

"If they do (fail to answer the questions), I'm going to call them on it," Schieffer said. Not answering questions "is not what a debate is about," he said.

Hmm…this is the same Bob Schieffer's whose ties to President Bush were never revealed — or, at best, acknowledged and summarily ignored — when he moderated the third debate in 2004 between John Kerry and George W.? Who's wife, Patricia Penrose Schieffer is on the board of trustees at Texan Christian University? And who is openly fearful about moderating presidential candidates and can easily be bullied into letting the candidates run around in linguistic circles without saying anything?

It's like whomever's in charge took the worst things about the first moderators and combined it into one cranky old man who is a) partisan and b) not enough of an authority to settle down Obama and McCain when they get riled up.

No, this will totally not be a trainwreck.