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It’s official: Obama runs from town-hall debates
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Barack Obama’s campaign made its distaste for free-style debates more or less official yesterday in their letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates. Team Obama only will agree to three debates, which has been the tradition through the last several presidential cycles, and all of them in the standard moderated format. He will not accept McCain’s challenge to meet him in a format where voters can ask the questions: Obama’s campaign released a letter this afternoon from campaign manager David Plouffe to the Commission on Presidential Debates only agreeing to the ...

Obama - “Any Time, Any Where”….Except There
Flopping Aces — Obama released the following yesterday: Obama’s campaign released a letter this afternoon from campaign manager David Plouffe to the Commission on Presidential Debates only agreeing to the traditional three sanctioned fall debates and single vice presidential forum. “Due to the late date of the two parties’ nominating conventions, and the relatively short period between the end of the conventions and the first proposed debate, it is likely that the four commission debates will be ...

Obama, McCain to meet in September — but probably not sooner
Political Animal — ... expanding the presidential debates beyond the three approved and organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Obama’s team proposed that both sides agree to the CPD events, plus a debate focused exclusively on foreign policy, plus a town-hall debate, for a total of five joint events. McCain said that wasn’t good enough, and proposed a total of 13 events. Talks between the two sides, not surprisingly, broke down. As of yesterday, it appears we’re back to the original plan. Obama’s campaign released a letter this ...

And Speaking Of Flip-Flops
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Gee, I thought that the old, enfeebled, elderly and Methuselah-resembling John McCain wouldn't stand a sand castle's chance in an earthquake again the young, vigorous, rhetorically masterful Barack Obama. So I am puzzled at this : Barack Obama's campaign released a letter this afternoon from campaign manager David Plouffe to the Commission on Presidential Debates only agreeing to the traditional three sanctioned fall debates and single vice presidential forum. "Due to the late date of the two parties' nominating conventions, and the relatively short period between the end of ...

And Speaking Of Flip-Flops
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Gee, I thought that the old, enfeebled, elderly and Methuselah-resembling John McCain wouldn't stand a sand castle's chance in an earthquake again the young, vigorous, rhetorically masterful Barack Obama. So I am puzzled at this: ...

I Could ‘ve Been a Contender!
No Runny Eggs — ... Again, I didn’t know David Plouffe was a reader of Norunnyeggs. Saturday afternoon he takes my advice and puts out a press release saying that Barry won’t be able to come out and play unless the playtime is very structured, supervised and previously scripted play days: ...