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Why won't Obama agree to joint town hall meetings with McCain?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    He's not good with the question/answer thing.

  • Icarus
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Obama will avoid a direct, unscripted debate with McCain at all costs because he can't win when his actual views are put before the people. McCain would massacre him because Obama's policies are nothing more than recycled Marxism and history has already proved that socialism as an economic engine always fails. Obama's "new ideas" are "old ideas" repackaged for a generation that knows nothing about history, economics or philosophy. Obama is depending on mass ignorance to get elected.

  • 1 decade ago

    Are you people serious? McCain only wants Obama with him on a town hall meeting tour so that more people will show up. McCain wants this so that he can use Obama's personality to pull in potential voters to his function. If he used his own only the dead will show up. Please. Don't you see this for what it really is?

    Okay... ready, set, go!!! with the thumbs down. Hey, this is just my opinion.

  • 1 decade ago

    because they are really boring McCain need Obama not the other way around it seam that McCain is having problems getting voter to come to those boring town hall i only counted about 150 peoples at his last meeting and one of them was this ranting senile old lady that no one knew what the hell she was saying .. lol

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  • wooper
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Why should he. He's ahead in the polls. That makes him in charge. McCain is scrambling for something to help him.

    The debates will be coming up, that will get everything out that needs to be known.

  • 1 decade ago

    No Pre-conditions!

    Obama 2008!

    Ebony & Ivory President!

  • canam
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    He is no match for McCain and he knows it. Other wise, he would be the one asking to debate.

  • 1 decade ago

    His fear of the lack of teleprompters and that someone might ask him about his great admiration and loyalty to Africa and islam.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because he would have to answer real questions from real people. And because he wouldn't look like a rock star...

    Just my opinion folks.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He doesn't want to be perceived as a stutterer without a teleprompter.

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