If as at Saddleback the contest is the inner game of politics, one would bet that the young guy would take down the old guy. By consensus, John McCain won. What happened?

Barack Obama clearly has spent more time than is healthy around places like the law schools of Harvard and Chicago, where one learns that a short answer cannot exist.

At Annapolis, John McCain's school, one learns the answer is often 'Yes, sir' or 'No, sir.'"