If there was ever a window on the gulf between the man Senator John McCain is, and the adolescent Senator Barack Obama remains, it was opened wide by Pastor Rick Warren. Watching Obama answer his questions was like watching a Pomeranian bounce around on a trampoline. He was all over the place.
McCain had his weak moments, don't get me wrong. His answer regarding Embryonic Stem Cell Research was so boilerplate he could have had his 3x5 card right there in his hand. But Obama seemed to be cutting his answers from whole cloth. Or hole cloth, since there were so many holes in his answers, you couldn't strain pasta without losing half the bowl.
Perhaps it's Obama's obsession with Nuance. Remember John Kerry? He was said to be "too-nuanced" for the average American. I stopped counting in the double digits, during Fox News's coverage, in which the two former Dem strategists mentioned about how nuanced Obama was, or how well he understood the nuances about this or that.
There was no sense of Nuance about John McCain's answers, save that one, but if Obama doesn't drop the Nuance, and start actually answering questions, McCain's 50 Cal. style of shooting straight with the American people is going to gain in appeal.
Message to Obama: Nuance is good.
