EXTRA EXTRA: Obama Responds To McCain's Offer...

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Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 11:49 AM PDT

2008/06/04 · 11:49

NBC News:

Sen. John McCain proposed a series of ten joint town hall meetings with Sen. Barack Obama beginning June 12 in New York City.

Said McCain: "I suggest the town hall meeting format, because I think it's the best way... I even propose we travel together on the same plane."

The Obama campaign responds: "As Barack Obama has said before, the idea of joint town halls is appealing and one that would allow a great conversation to take place about the need to change the direction of this country. We would recommend a format that is less structured and lengthier than the McCain campaign suggests, one that more closely resembles the historic debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas."

Obama responds accordingly and correctly. I think this is a great idea. The young, energetic, fresh and articulate Obama in town hall meetings across the country with the old, lethargic, inarticulate and stale McCain. Obama should run with this idea and make it happen. McCain is very apt to mispeak and actually lie when he does not have written word at his disposal (and when he doesn't have Joe Lieberman at his disposal). The McCain "gaffe's" aren't really gaffe's at all, they are lies or they an admission that he doesn't have a grasp of facts and issues. This, along with the fact that McCain is known to have a short fuse and an offensively bad temper will ensure a McCain blow-up at some point in the process. When challenged about mis-statements on the spot, McCain will probably resort to one of two things he is familiar with: an angry on screen blow-up or continuing his lies which will prove disasterous when the media blows it up even further.

McCain is just a horrible candidate for the republicans, and they realize it. The more public McCain becomes and the more he is shown shoulder to shoulder with the smarter, younger, taller, more electric and articulate Obama, the easier it becomes to show McCain as past history and "W"rong for America.

By the way, this isn't the first time this election that the Lincoln-Douglas style debates have been suggested: April 26, 2008: Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams writes Obama campaign manager David Plouffe to propose, "in the spirit of the Lincoln-Douglas debates" of 1858, an unmoderated, 90-minute exchange between the candidates.

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