It's telling the more we see of someone whether the connection is there or not, relevant to the relationship that is material to the decision that sometimes more is less.  Take for instance this past Saturday' Saddleback interview when the president to be (if elected)  couldn't with a straight face answer even this question, " When does life begin?"  The prepositioning of an answer is enough to bother many of us that pay attention, especially the guy from south Chicago, but to then skip to the party's fringe special interests to avoid an honest or intelligent response, the World audience got , "it's above my pay grade."!  What message did that send?  As a Harvard Law grad and a Christian with having helped to produce at least two children , one would expect a more evolved answer than essentially saying 'duh'.  Today he trips his campaign conversation to a press question to McCain about how many homes he owns, well married to a rich woman and at 72 who seems to spend more time helping Ted Kennedy with legislation than counting places he gets to sleep at, says to me that McCain isn't a 'gold digger', and Barak's quibble is a distraction about nothing much.  However the charity of a man can be measured, the McCain's have adopted very needy children...yet this week,  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html , a story breaks that Obama has a younger brother that according to Italian press account lives on less than a dollar a month, for a person that wants to give 'fairness' a bigger plug line as a means to taxing some Americans yet more, who gave $20,000 to his church after making millions on a book that most high elected office seekers would have donated to charity, he couldn't see the Christian self side benefit to lend his 'fathers own blood a helping hand'.  How many of us will be tempted to send his brother George a check in the amount of a measly annual magazine subscription knowing that that would quadruple his annual spending!   It's been common for so many democratic candidates to lecture from the stump, start a sentence and drift within several times without ever finishing the statement or question, again this past weekend Barak fell back on the weasle plan and began with his usual "ah ah uh" and finished with "it's above my pay grade"!  I'm not sure what job application that would be acceptable if required, but for me that doesn't get my VOTE come November.  I expect my President to know when life begins.