Obama’s world that is.

Last night’s debate was disappointing. The questions were not what I would have asked. I wanted to know about character. I wanted to learn about Obama’s lost years.

The years he never speaks of. The years he was at Columbia. Tom Brokaw stayed away from that and made sure there was no true debate.

What about Obama’s pronunciation of Pakistan as Pahk-ee-stahn ? Does he play a lot of Pahkémahn?

Would that one pronounce Pacman “Pahk-mahn”?

When Papa Barack tells his daughters to get ready to go to school in the morning does he tell them to “pahk their bookbahgs?”

Why is he so intent on pronouncing Pakistan in such a CNN International friendly way? Is that really what we want in a president?

What was that hovering all over the hall last night?

The ghostly presence of Bill Ayers? Barack Obama seemed to be stiffly awaiting the whisper of Ayer’s name with every poof of the mic.

Who were those questioners at the Town Hall debate? An odd group of people with halos of ponytails on every last one. Only one seemed to be a recognizable American with a lucid question, the veteran. I noticed that he beamed when Senator McCain leaned down to shake his hand. Obama didn’t get within six feet of him. He knew better.

That was telling.

At that very point, Barack Obama lost the debate.

With John McCain’s closing statement, he won.