Which of the two candidates are being more candid, and less canned? McCain has stories of personal courage that go back nearly 50 years. Barack Obama can’t even think back ten years because he has had LESS TIME than that in public life.

Has anyone noticed that the audience has really come to life since McCain sat down? Numerous interruptions for applause which Obama did not receive.

McCain actually named real people in the real world (General David Patraeus, Former Ebay CEO Meg Whitman, and Congressman John Lewis). Obama named political colleagues (Sam Nunn, Ted Kennedy!), and his wife and grandmother. I guess he doesn’t believe he has the women’s vote in the bag after all.

McCain actually cites a real life moral failure in responding to the question! Did Obama?

UPDATE: Obama cited “drug and alcohol use as a teenager.” Who among us isn’t guilty of youthful indiscretions? On the other hand, McCain faced down one issue evangelicals find problematic with McCain: his adultery and divorce. He did so candidly.

The two answers do not compare in terms of the political danger represented.

Barack Obama failed to answer questions candidly and directly. When asked, “What in this country is worth dying for?” his response was his grandfather was buried in a military cemetary in Hawaii??

When asked at what point a baby in the womb should be given human rights he obfiscated.

This is Obama’s bad night out. He did nothing to win over conservative evangelicals and he did nothing to jeopardize the hold he already has on his base. If Obama isn’t willing to takes risks in this kind of forum, how will he take the kind of risks every leader must take if he occupies the Oval Office?