Well - we certainly disagree on this point.  If there was a shred of a real "debate" in the two shows we've endured recently, I would agree with you.  But it seems you are putting a rather recent 'tradition' ahead of what should be a respectful and informative exchange that serves to educate the public on the candidates they are supporting for election to the Presidency.  I certainly do not see a refusal to participate in another of these abominations as "ducking" as you do.  Rather, I see it as an appropriate limit-setting on a participant who know no limits of his own.  But you are right that "Hillary is a big girl..." - and big girls don't simply allow big boys (or little ones in this case) to abuse and debase them.  That is, as I see it, what you are advocating for.  I hope the HRC campaign staff are talking to her about something entirely different.