Presidential Debates

What is with this trend of having representatives from each candidate's camp do the debating. Huh? We've sunk to debating by proxy now? A debate via Twitter? I love Twitter but come on! At least the candidates should have to actually create the words that get Twittered.

I really have to wonder what's next? Will they start fielding robots to fight each other?

It'd be sad if it weren't so funny/ridiculous/absurd.