The “Yes-Or-No Question” Fallacy has to be the worst thing to happen to campaign communication in recent history. Not that debates have ever been perfect, but this need on the part of the moderators to look like “tough journalists” by asking these insipidly simplistic questions has drained away even the slightest chance of any real critical engagement between the candidates.

I wonder, though, if we the public are not partly to blame for this. We often make voting decisions by a set of yes/no policy check boxes.

The human rights/national security question is particularly insidious because it’s just a reworking of the equally dim-witted “ticking bomb” torture scenario that keeps popping up.

I will vote for any Democratic candidate who says “Wolf, that’s a bullshit question and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking it. We both know that it’s a false dichotomy and you’re wasting the American people’s time by trying to turn this debate into another episode of 24.