I'd Like to Meet a Lapel Pin Voter

Here are the four things that ABC moderators attempted to hammer Barack Obama on during the first half of tonight's Democratic debate in Pennsylvania:

- Not wearing a flag pin on his lapel (curiously, Hillary Clinton's bare lapel somehow eluded notice);
- Reverend Wright;
- Being "elitist"; and
- His so-called connections to a domestic terrorist group that was active in the 1960s (although strangely they neglected to ask Clinton about her connections to the same group, even though her husband pardoned two of them).

Here are four things that were not brought by the moderators at any point during the debate:

- The plummeting value of the U.S. dollar;
- Today's Supreme Court decision that use of lethal injection does not constitute not cruel and unusual punishment;
- Admissions this week that Still-President Bush was actively aware of his administration's approval of torture techniques; and
- Education, environment and the economy (okay, technically that's three, but they're linked — especially somewhere like Pennsylvania — and not one of them was brought up anyway).

But I suppose considering the fact that one of the moderators was former Bill Clinton advisor George Stephanopoulos, I should settle for being pleasantly surprised that they didn't ask Obama if his wife's status as a Marxist Islamo-fascist baby-eater would adversely influence his presidency.