Below is an exchange between Howard Wolfson (Team Hillary) and David Axelrod (Team Obama) during Newshour. The gist of the exchang is basically this: Wolfson alleges that Obama doesn't want to debate Clinton in Wisconsin because he's leading in Wisconsi and is fine with debates in Ohio and Texas because he's behind in both those states. Axelrod's argument is that there's been so many debates already, why do another one and also that Obama prefers to campaign directly to the people. Wolfson then trips up Axelrod, here:

<JUDY WOODRUFF: Let me bring up debates. Your camp is criticizing the Obama camp for not agreeing to a debate in Wisconsin. There have already been 18 debates; there are two more that are scheduled. Why are debates so important at this point?</p>

HOWARD WOLFSON: Well, we've only had one one-on-one debate, and it had enormous ratings. It proved to be enormously helpful to the people of California and everyone who voted on Super Tuesday in making a good judgment about who to vote for.

DAVID AXELROD: And we ended up basically surging in that state and tying on Election Day based on that debate. It doesn't matter where we debate, Howard. Those eight million people who watched that debate were watching all over the country.>

So basically, Axelrod agrees that when Obama is behind, he has no problems with debates and he also agrees that debates help the candidate who is trailing.

So Wolfson was right, Obama's not debating in Wisconsin because he's leading in that race...which, admittedly, I think is a fair political strategy but it reeks of politics as usual. And therein lies my problem with Obama -- I call it Obama-hubris. He presents himself as this figure who is above politics, an anti-politician if you will, who will bring an end to politics as usual, but when you get past the soaring rhetoric, what you get is, well...politics as usual.