He's not the only one, of course. It happens at every debate; the moderator poses an oversimplified question and bears down, insisting on a show of hands or a yes or no, making it impossible to put the answer into a context that helps educate the public on the issue. If I were a Democratic presidential candidate, this is what I would say to the next moderator who handed me a narrow question and insisted upon a narrow answer;
Wolf (or whomever), you're asking narrow questions and insisting on narrow answers. You call it clarity, but I call it black-and-white thinking. We've had a president who deals in black-and-white thinking for the past seven years, and he's no advertisement for oversimplifying. This country has complicated problems and those problems need to be put into context. You may think America is too dumb to understand what I'm saying up here, but you're wrong. Americans have had seven years of easy answers. Now what they want is the RIGHT answers. Any follower can say yes or no. Leadership--and that's what this country so desperately needs--means being able to say a whole lot more.