What's Wrong With Nuance?

Have we become so dumbed down as a society that we need all complex issues spoon fed to us in bite sized yes or no pieces? Wolf Blitzer's insistence on a yes or no answer from the candidates was ridiculous. If that's the level of the "debate" then we should have Bush clones up there, because he's not smart enough to "do nuance" as he once said. He takes a position and sticks to it regardless of reams of evidence that it's wrong. Life is nuance, and if you can't handle the grey area, you should start doing some mental weightlifting to shape up your intellect. Life is nuanced. We're born, grow old and die in a highly nuanced fashion. We don't jump from one stage to the other. The sun comes up and goes down in a nuanced and beautiful way. It doesn't turn on and off like a light switch. In a complex world, we need intelligent leaders who can "do nuance." We don't have one now, and look where that's gotten us.

With important issues like the war in Iraq and the gradual stealth-like destruction of our constitution and civil liberties, why in the Hell is Wolf Blitzer forcing a yes or no answer on some dumb question like drivers licenses for undocumented workers?

It would have been thrilling to see one of the candidates say something like, "that's a dumb-ass question you boring little twirp, and I'm not going to answer it."