What is it about the Democrat presidential candidates that they fear having a debate partially sponsored by Fox News?

A debate sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and Fox News for September has been nixed by Senator Barack Obama. Since he’s the only member of the CBC who is running, it gives an excuse to everyone else to drop out of the debate.

Barack Obama has chosen not to attend September’s Democratic presidential primary debate co-sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and Fox News, an aide said, effectively dooming the event.

Friday, John Edwards was the first candidate to announce he’d skip the debate. The CBC Institute is hosting one other debate, with CNN in January, in which all candidates are expected to participate.

“CNN seemed like a more appropriate venue,” the aide said, adding that Obama himself had not called CBC leadership or Fox executives to deliver the news. “It was handled at a staff level.”

The aide said that Obama will participate in the six officially-sanctioned Democratic National Committee debates, whose existence provided candidates a measure of cover to drop out of the Fox-sponsored debate.

Well, if you want softballs lobbed at you I guess CNN is the network of choice.

This seems to be such an orchestrated child-like response against Fox News. It’s Fox News not Wolf News! I thought we were supposed to be afraid of the big, bad wolf, and I don’t mean Blitzer either.

Maybe the Republicans should refuse to debate on anything that resembles a left-leaning network, but then again how would the people of the other political persuasion be able to see them and judge their candidacies? The same goes for the Democrats. How will conservatives actually be able to see their debates if they don’t watch CNN as a personal choice. I’m one of them.

This is just plain foolish. What happens in the big race in November when all the networks will carry the debates? Oh, right, they’ll ban people like Brit Hume from asking any questions. Or maybe they will even manage to get Fox News banned from broadcasting those debates.

I have one question for the Democrat presidential candidates: Is there one of you who will stand up for what is right and take honest questions or are you all going to hide behind the backs of Obama and Edwards?

Update: Senator Hillary Clinton has also dropped out of the debate and has announced she will participate only in the DNC debates.

Clinton spokesman Blake Zeff emails, “We’re going to participate in the DNC-sanctioned debates only. We’ve previously committed to participating in the SC and Tavis Smiley debates.”

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Written by ~J~

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