Obama, Pantsuit to Skip Early Debates?

I figure Obama doesn't want to get down and dirty, being he's all clean and fresh. As for the The Pantsuit, she's strictly on script and is busy having a dialogue or a chat with some focus-group pollsters, carefully measuring every word before it's uttered for public consumption by the great unwashed.

Obama, Clinton May Skip Early Debates

First, the Democratic National Committee is soon going to call the campaigns together to try to limit the debates. But that may not work. "It will not stop other organizations from holding debates," a DNC source admitted.

More importantly, however, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may just say no. They might do the unthinkable and just refuse to show up.

Early debates are helpful to second- and third-tier candidates because those candidates need publicity.

But what do front-runners get from debates? Nothing but risk. They already have publicity. To the top tier, early debates are a negative, an ordeal, a chance for the rest of the pack to nip them in their rear ends.

Aren't debates the "music of democracy," however, a chance for the public to learn about important issues of our day?

The campaign is already too long and it's probably better to skip them until the fall anyway, as people just aren't tuned in until later in the process. Besides, if these two are to be taken seriously, why not wait until the carnival sideshow acts like Dennis Kucinich fall by the wayside?

Frankly, after hearing their comments from the DNC meeting last week, neither strike me as great orators, nor all that innovative on the issues. They're standard far-left Democrats, and the less I hear from them, the better for my sanity.