Five Eight times tonight the freshman Democrat Senator from Illinois has responded to questions and McCain answers by saying, “John is right.”

Further, he listened to McCain’s exceedingly knowledgeable response on Georgia by saying, in essence, “What he said.”

Tonight, Senator Obama has reinforced the simple fact that – if he can shed the arrogance he wears on his sleeve – he is very well prepared to be an understudy of an experienced, knowledgeable, principled President of the United States.

Unfortunately for Obama and for the party that nominated him, America doesn’t elect understudies President — she elects Leading Men.

Update: New McCain ad already out — and the debate has only been over for 10 minutes!