Less than a third of Americans have college degrees.

  They want a President who can tell them how to get from point A to point B in a clear concise way.

  Do they want a President that is complex and thoughtful and very subtle and subdued?

  Historically, it has been a President that speaks softly, carries a big stick, and let's the buck stop there.

  Very direct, assertive, defiant, too forward looking on the use of force and sort of going out and looking for and beating back trouble in the world? I did not know Ronald Reagan was running. I thought he had reached his 2 term limit and besides he has died. Ah, ok, I will still vote for him. They convinced me.

McCain came across as mature and quite comfortable in stating his principles. Barry, as usual, come across as a political hack who will bend with the politcal wind. He seemed not quite "old" enough to have formed many principles at all. Nonetheless, the answers he didn't need to be "thoughful" about were that the one he admires most ( and is a key advisor ) is his wife, Affirmative Action Michelle, and that he would never have Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court. Overall, the choice for POTUS was made starkly clear last night.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

so..really who 'won'?        

Gee, I wonder where the unbiased journalist / newsman Olbie will come down on this.

He's just so unpredictable!

far left positions that are 100% predictable so how can they be so thoughtful and Nuanced?

Childlike

Obama thinks in pounds of nothingness. People want to hear ten words of substance.

SCHNEIDER: Each candidate used the opportunity I think to showcase his strengths. Barack Obama's answers were complex, thoughtful, very subtle.

complex=confusing   thoughtful=still making up his mind   very subtle=vague

"Where Obama was thoughtful and cautious, McCain was abrupt..."

Cautious? Cautious about what? Making sure not to show America what he truly believes, or making sure to appear to America that he believes something that they won't think is idiotic or Socialist?

McCain was abrupt? Yea whatever, if it was Obama answering as McCain did, the discription would have been "decisive and clear."

This shows why Obama is in so much trouble in this election-one that he should be leading by double digits right now.

Stop me if you've heard this before:

1) Obama goes unscripted.  Says something politically stupid (when life begins is above my pay grade) that is supposed to show how humble Obama is. 

2)  Media tells Obama how wonderful his presentation was, how 'thoughtful' he looked, and how this is going to attract independents and conservatives.

3) Joe Public watches/hears/reads about what Obama says.  Joe says "Whose pay grade DOES know?  And why can't this guy tell me what HE thinks?"

4) Joe Public begins to have doubts/additional doubts about Obama for President.

5) Media takes a poll and finds Obama is STILL tied with McCain.   Still can't figure out why.  Keeps propping up Obama.

6) Obama campaign thinks it's doing swell because of the media echo chamber.

Tell me if this doesn't sound familiar to anybody else.

So answering a question about what He thinks on an issue, is above his paygrade? 

Hey Obama, just what paygrade do you need to have an Opinion/Conviction/Belief?

Does he mean the poll to tell him what he should think about abortion hasn't been taken yet?  Was his telepromter broken or out of sight?  Didn't they cover that in his Positions to State rehearsals?

This guy is worse than an empty Balck suit.  He's just so much thin air!

Nuance:

 
a very slight difference or variation in color or tone.

Such hatemongers!

"Minutes later, Gergen again described Obama as thoughtful, just in case we missed it."

Thoughtful? Yep. I, too, thought Obama was full of "it."

Just ask each one of those CNN pundits to provide a brief summary of Obama’s answers and then discuss how his views might translate to domestic and/or foreign policy.

Does reducing the need for abortions mean that Obama supports parental notification? Does Obama support teacher merit pay if the unions do not? What specific policy exemplifies Obama’s belief that evil should be confronted with humility?

Then we’ll know what thoughtful, subtle, nuanced and complex really mean to the average American.

Obama must seem thoughtful to his, dare I say, supporters when he is stalling his answer with all manner of devices. He uses uhs, ahs, a subtle stutter, buts, and my favorite, a long sort of growl. Last night when he wanted to think about what he should have answered in response to the moment of conception question, and after the "Well, ah ah, I think" and"above my pay grade" idiocy, he really excelled trying to collect his thoughts. The best I can transcribe it is "But but but but, ah ah le le let let me let me just speak about..." Very thoughtful for the Gergens of the world. Dummies like me just don't get how beautiful the mind of Obama really is. If only I was a Vulcan I could mind meld and experience the joy that others are blessed with simply by listening to his voice. Ah! Would that it be so!

I s "thoughtful" the same as stammering for time while inventing a reply?

I ♣ my seal