[skeeter]

Be patient - if he falls any further behind in the polls, Barry will be screaming for debates.

[Twinkie]

Barry, I think, is afraid of debates. (Oh, and before, town hall debates were BENEATH him. That was when he probably was expecting to come down off the columns of Mt. Olympus in full regalia, go through the formality of an election, and be crowned King of America.)- My imaginary chicken, Fannie May Farkleberry says, “BOK, BOK, BOK, BOK, BOK, BOK, BOK!”)

[SAJ]

In the early 1960s, when Arnold Palmer won the Masters tourney every other year or so, his caddy at Augusta was known as 'Iron Man', and acquired quite a bit of fame, sort of by reflection, as it were.

A couple of years later, when George Plimpton was researching 'The Bogey Man', a book about his adventures on the Pro-Am circuit, he had occasion to talk to a lot of long-time professional caddies. He asked about Iron Man, and the caddies cracked up.

''Iron Man? Mister, you get him off the Masters course and he be lost.'' Along with some other, less printable comments.

Every time the subject of 'town hall' debates comes up, I think of that comment:

''Obama in a free-form debate? Mister, you get him off the teleprompter and he be lost.''

[awake-n-angry]

Be patient - if he falls any further behind in the polls, Barry will be screaming for debates.

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It’s usually the leader who is comfortable with few debates and the candidate who is desparate calling for debates to get a boost.

I guess Obama is not believing the latest polls.