I tried summing it up during the show last night. Obama’s answers on his proposals seemed at times to be a collection of random thoughts thrown together in a smooth paragraph devoid of meaning. Here’s what the WSJ had to say this morning here:

One of Mr. Obama’s gifts is his ability to glide over contradictions with the greatest of ease. He spent minutes explaining that we spend “$10 billion a month” in Iraq that should be spent here in the U.S. But a short time later he was promoting what sounded like a surge in Afghanistan, and vowing to spend even more money to assist “the economies” of Eastern Europe. He also proposes to provide free health care while claiming he’d cut more spending from the overall budget than his new ideas would cost. If Mr. McCain lets that last claim go unrebutted, he deserves to lose.

That may well be true. But the country doesn’t deserve to lose.