They are all here – David Axelrod, David Wilhelm. Jesse Jackson, Ted Strickland. Andrea Mitchell, Candy Crowley. On and on. I’ve got lots of video and pictures that I feel confident no one else got – particularly the video.

But what I’m also certain you won’t hear is anything that isn’t spin. You can hear it as you walk from cluster to cluster, how each politician or strategist’s candidate did. It’s all “we’re winning” – would we expect anything else?

And yet do we really learn about leadership from these debates?

As I sat in the audience, really able to hear the questions, the specific wording of the questions, it occurred to me:

War Games. Simulated political candidate war games.

How would Hilary Clinton behave if faced with a real situation where her words and her past experiences could be combined to run in a simulation that could show us the outcome if she were the president during a crisis – of any kind. Or make it just good old health care.

What about Barack Obama? How would a simulated Obama, in a game programmed with his words and actions, manage a crisis that demanded the president to decide and act?

And how would we compare outcomes of the simulated sequences?

If computer science students can develop programs that show us the devastation in Darfur, why not the success of failure of a President Obama or a President Clinton when they are forced to deal with some similarly difficult, or even easy, dilemma?

On your mark, get set go.