Obama's command of the issues

Peter Wehner says that during the debate on Wednesday, things were not so good for Obama. And he spends most of this column demolishing his answers during the second half of it, which was more "issues oriented", as the far left is writing about.

Here's part of it:

4. Obama wasn’t much better in his treatment of other issues. Last night he said that a central focus of his campaign was to deliver on “middle-class tax relief.” When asked if he had just taken a pledge on not raising taxes on people making less than $200,000, Obama agreed. But later in the debate Obama admitted he would raise the cap on the payroll tax, meaning that those making more than $97,000 a year would pay higher payroll taxes. When Charles Gibson pointed out this fact to Obama and said there are “a heck of a lot of people between $97,000 and $200(,000) and $250,000” and that if you raise the payroll taxes, that will raise taxes on them, Obama said, “I would look at potentially exempting those who are in between.” But of course if he exempts all of those in between, then he’s not going to raise the payroll tax to help save Social Security. And if he doesn’t exempt all of those in between, then he’s raising taxes on those making less than $200,000.

Has he thought through these things? This guy really wants to be president? How has he gotten this far?

I am starting to think that he's just a mental lightweight who gives a fancy speech. The alternative is that he's a far-left-winger who is just a little too honest to always hide his true opinions on things. Maybe both are true.