A. Kievalar tells us that Obama will win hands down because he speaks nicely and projects a better image than McCain. Perhaps. Left out of his analysis is the fact that Obama’s lovely speechifying contains either a vapid lack of substance (We are the change we’ve been waiting for) or a stupid, reactionary and ignorant hard-left substance (like taking away the profits of drug companies). Those qualities are what make Obama so attractive to Europeans, who are always supposed to be so much more sophisticated than we American rednecks, as well as to other enthusiastic foreigners, like America’s enemies. Vapidity and reactionary ignorance, no wonder Obama is so popular.

If McCain can get Obama arguing on substance McCain can win, especially if it is extempore, since Obama is lost without a teleprompter and a prepared speech.