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Candidate all ready said “No” to townhall meetings.

Barack Obama on Saturday backed even further away from facing John McCain’s in a series of Lincoln-Douglas debates, agreeing only to the standard and highly scripted three face-offs in the fall proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates. His staff said he had not entirely ruled out other debates.

Obama is notoriously weaker off-the-cuff without a tele-prompter and fears open, free wheeling face-to-face one-to-one debates will expose his inexperience putting his carefully scripted campaign at risk. The Obama campaign denied it was dodging the senior senator,

This week Obama has been dancing after being accused by a decorated senior Army physician of deserting wounded troops while in Germany because he couldn’t exploit them politically; Israel Media accused him of sacrilege after it was learned he intentionally used his prayer at the Wailing Wall as a PR stunt, and thrice said McCain would try to scare voter by pointing out his race. Obama later retreated from his accusation against McCain.

McCain’s camp continues to insist Obama should drop all pretext and face McCain man-to-man on the issues. Some are urging ads attacking Obama for evading the free wheeling classis Lincoln-Douglas format to force Obama into the open. Obama has also rejected McCain’s challenge for a series of town hall meetings.

The commission debates are set for Sept. 26 in Oxford, Miss., three weeks after the Republican National Convention concludes Sept. 4. The other presidential debates are set for Oct. 7 and Oct. 15 and the vice presidential debate for Oct. 2.

According to a national Gallup poll released on Saturday the presidential race is tied at 44% each, and Obama is exhibiting great caution that he does not slip behind McCain as a recent Gallup poll showed on the eve of the Democrat Nominating Convention in Denver August 25-28.