Monday, August 18, 2008,5:02 AM
Out Of The Mouths Of ... Liberals
And this babe is about as liberal as they come. Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn on last week's debate in which John McCain crushed his opponent:

By the time McCain finished his interview with pastor Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, Saturday night, part of a forum that also featured Barack Obama, I was curled up in a fetal position in my chair, wrapped in a mohair throw, practically sucking my thumb.

McCain did a great job of making me feel confident. He was clearly in his element at Saddleback, among supportive evangelical Christians, and he went a long way toward alleviating their fears about his inability to communicate with them in their own language.

Obama came first, and he handled himself well in front of an audience that clearly disagrees with him on many issues. He was low-key, thoughtful and nuanced.

That kind of nuance is hard to understand sometimes -- it's unclear, complicated. (link)
And, it might be added, the last thing a presidential candidate needs to do in a debate being televised to a national audience is to come across as being both unclear and complicated. Another Washington Post columnist, Michael Gerson, compares Obama's performance to the persona projected by twice-defeated presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. That has to hurt.

As the Post writes, McCain 1, Nuance 0.
 
posted by Jerry Fuhrman
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