Obama not interested in further punishment?
From 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."
Well, this last debate is apparently the first one anybody actually watched. That makes a lot of difference.
To be fair, it is S.O.P. for a politician who is in the lead to try and avoid debate situations. There is little to gain and a lot to lose.