Barack Obama is resisting calls for yet more debates in advance of the North Carolina and Indiana debates in May:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama suggested Thursday that he doesn’t see any point in having another debate with Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Clinton has agreed to a debate next week, but Obama has not accepted the invitation.
At an appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina, Obama said he has a lot of campaigning to do in a limited amount of time.
Obama said he had agreed to an earlier debate, but Clinton declined that one.
“I’ll be honest with you, we’ve now had 21,” he said. “It’s not as if we don’t know how to do these things. I could deliver Sen. Clinton’s lines; she could, I’m sure, deliver mine.”
Obama said he has to look at his schedule, considering the upcoming primaries.
This campaign has been going on for more than a year now. There isn’t anything about “the issues” that these candidates are going to say that they haven’t already said. They are far too practiced at this point to get caught making mistakes that might actually change the race. There really isn’t anything new to discuss after twenty-one debates since 2007. That’s why ABC spent 45 minutes the other night talking about issues like Jeremiah Wright, Bosnia, and Bill Ayers —- because these are pretty much the only issues that hadn’t already been covered in every other mind-numbing debate we’ve seen since the process started far too long ago.
