In the Fall of 2004, I endeavored to reenact each of the three Presidential Debates in various online computer game environments. "The Great Debates" 1, 2 and 3 were performed online in "Battlefield Vietnam", "Starwards Jedi Knight Outcast" and "The Sims Online". The following texts describe each performance event. Culmulatively I typed in over 50,000 characters of text over the roughly 8 hours needed for each piece.

The Great Debate 1: Battlefield Vietnam On Sunday, October 3rd, 2004, artist Joseph DeLappe re-enacted the first, 2004 Presidential Debate between Senator John Kerry and President George Bush in the PC online first person shooter game, "Battlefield Vietnam".

The performance/re-enactment involved typing into "Battlefield Vietnam" online the entire transcript from the first presidential debate. DeLappe switched his profile, or name, during the gameplay from "George Bush" to "John Kerry", as needed, to recreate, through the instant, text messaging system used in the online game, the entire 14,000+ words. The transcript, used in printed form from the NYtimes on the web, were typed into the online gameplay over the course of an eight hour session, visiting multiple game servers in the US and abroad.

The Great Debate 2: Star Wars Jedi Knight Outcast Joseph DeLappe continued the series of online gaming performances to re-create each of the three 2004 Presidential Debates. The second debate, the "Town Hall Meeting" held in Missouri on Friday, October 8th, was re-enacted, in its entirety during multiple visits to game servers hosting the online game, "Star Wars: Jedi Knight II, Jedi Outcast".

The Great Debate 3: The Sims Online Beginning on Thursday, October 14th, Joseph DeLappe started this third re-enactment of the third 2004 Presidential Debates. Focused entirely upon "domestic issues", the third and last debate was held in Arizona. DeLappe typed in the entire text from the debate, in character as either "Senator Kerry" or "President Bush" in the "The Sims Online" simulation game.