The greatest difference between Obama and Palin is something else.

When we look at Palin we know what we are getting. She is direct, uncomplicated, without guile—we understand her.

Obama, on the other hand, has talked a great deal for months, but we are still no closer to knowing him. The image-building rhetoric supplied him by his handlers is insincere and often self-contradictory—-it hides the man.