A good overall analysis there Sean.
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People were gushing about how clearly McCain supposedly "won" the Saddleback interview/debate thing, but that wasn't how I saw it at all. I saw one candidate with realistic, well thought out, nuanced positions, and another with rhetorical, ham-fisted, sound-bite oriented positions. To me, the candidate who seems most thoughtful and potentially effective as President is the winner, and that was Obama hands down. But like you said, McCain's answers wold fit well on a bumper sticker, or more importantly, in a sound bite on the evening news, so people ate it up. It tells us far more about the American public than it does about the candidates in my opinion.
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I get very paranoid about sounding elitist when I talk about things like this, (not to mention anti-American when I talk about it regarding the US) - so I'm glad you also see where I'm coming from on it.