I'm Clamoring

From the NYT:

But Mr. Obama said most of that fighting would be done on the ground in the next voting states, not in debates. When asked whether he would accept the invitation from Mrs. Clinton to attend four more debates in the coming weeks, he laughed.

“I don’t think anybody is clamoring for more debates,” he said. “We’ve had 18 debates so far. I think we’ve had 10 more than we’ve had in the last Democratic contest.”

He said he would agree to at least one debate, but noted, “It’s very important for me to spend time with voters.”

Of course, there has only been one debate since the field was reduced to two candidates and it became a lot easier to draw direct comparisons between Obama and Clinton. I thought they both did well on CNN last week, but I’m sure the Obama camp, in addition to recognizing that Barack’s speechifying is better than his debating, believes that Hillary’s performance in that debate went a long way towards stemming Obama’s momentum and avoiding a Super Tuesday disaster for her and they don’t want too much more of the same.