So you want to be president?

Tribune editorial nails it:

But let's be clear here. Clinton, Obama and Edwards weren't going to be debating Fox News journalists. They would have been debating each other.

Candidates often feed scoops to favored reporters. They crave the friendly questions and the soft focus that help them appear to be commander-in-chief material. But here's what candidates look like when they attempt to choose which reporters are worthy to question them: fragile, egocentric and frightened of tough questions.

That's not how a prospective president of the United States wants to come across.

The Democrat candidates---aping the world's dictators who duck the free press.