I think that the moderators in these past two debates have been mediocre at best.  The McCain attack on tough questioning has turned what should be a tough interview into a series of interspersed stump speeches where both candidates have been allowed to dictate the discussion, to everybody's detriment.  If I went in to a job interview, and told the interviewer that I wasn't going to answer his question I would be immediately rejected for that job.

These tickets have become so studded with hero worship and cushy bipartisanship that the moderators seem to be sitting in admiration rather than providing the harsh scrutiny that's needed to dig deeper than the rhetoric.  This has allowed both candidates to stick strictly to their talking points and has not addressed anything but poise and ability to speak.  If a candidate doesn't answer a question you don't move on, you keep asking the question again and again until they answer it.  It lacks any good journalism.  Nothing has been revealed about these candidates that we didn't already know, it provides no incite but what the campaign wants us to believe.

I'm not suggesting that the moderator should be bullying the candidates into a corner, the candidates should be doing that to each other, but when they aren't it's the moderators job to keep picking at the truth until its revealed.