Reply #19: I liked the moment where

[Basileus Basileon]

he got Russert to repeatedly admit that 14% of Americans--or 42 million people, if you consider that representative (which is another issue)--also believe they have seen one.

However, with a candidate that's often seen as something of a head-in-the-clouds dreamer, he still could have handled it a bit better. Barack Obama had a fantastic answer to much the same question: "Life on other planets? I know that there's life here on Earth; let's take care of those folks first, and we'll worry about the other folks later." (paraphrasing)