Coward

What happened to "anytime, anyplace?"

Obama backs away from McCain's debate challenge

Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday backed away from rival John McCain's challenge for a series of joint appearances, agreeing only to the standard three debates in the fall.

In May, when a McCain adviser proposed a series of pre-convention appearances at town hall meetings, Obama said, "I think that's a great idea." In summer stumping on the campaign trail, McCain has often noted that Obama had not followed through and joined him in any events.

His handlers KNOW he'll say something stupid in an off-the-cuff, spontaneous town hall type meeting. He lets the truth of who and what he is slip out, and that would be disastrous. For all his talk about change and freshness, he's just a typical dyed-in-the-wool flaming liberal who would be a disaster as President and Commander-in-Chief. He has to keep that under wraps and keep the uninformed fools who follow him in line.

McCain's campaign disparaged Obama for backing off. "We understand it might be beneath a worldwide celebrity of Barack Obama's magnitude to appear at town hall meetings alongside John McCain and directly answer questions from the American people, but we hope he'll reconsider," spokesman Brian Rogers said.

Dream on, Dude. Like most Democrats, the American people to Obama are just a means to an end.

JASmius adds: Remember how the interactive "town hall" debate format worked so well for Bill Clinton, and how Bush41 just hated it, to the extent of actually checking his watch during the one town-hall debate in 1992?

Bill Clinton was a consummate performer in ANY public setting.  Barack Hussein Obama appears better qualified for being a network news anchor than any job that requires more intellectual heft than just reading a teleprompter and grinning a lot.