It's possible to design and structure something poorly in any language. Conversely, it's possible to write clear and concise individual sections of code in any language as well (assuming knowledge of that language, within reason).

That's why I never put too much stock into python arguments that feature syntax readability prominently. Unfortunately, being a perl guy I've heard quite a lot of those. There are plenty of other language features that could be used to make a point that have less well understood solutions (for perl, those are Perl::Tidy and Perl::Critic).