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[this is ridiculoud. please feel free to delete the first two attempts.]
[Sorry for the double-post but I can't stand looking at the typo in my own letter considering the title of my letter...]
It wasn't "driver's licenses at the same level" it was "driver's licenses at the state level."
He was hinting at a Federalist argument but he didn't follow through because he was trying to make a point about process and question formulation and the politics of distraction, a point he didn't make very well but he was probably distracted himself by the oddly unruly audience early in the debate.
I'm not trying to make excuses for him; clearly he should have gone further towards mastering this "debate" format by now. But it's frustrating that when he tries to give a nuanced answer it always comes across, in this format, as an equivocating answer. Covering presidential politics with 300 word posts probably does more to exacerbate the problem than to clarify it.
