Quote of the Day

"Barack Obama isn’t some “electable” insider. In fact, if his face were any fresher, they’d charge you 12 bucks for it at the Whole Foods. Barack Obama: smart, fresh, and perfectly willing to marry Bill Clinton."
Matt Bai, NYTimes


Andrew Sullivan writes about Obama in a way that makes me believe it might just happen, and that maybe it should:

" Close-up in this election campaign, Obama is unlikely. From a distance, he is necessary. At a time when America’s estrangement from the world risks tipping into dangerous imbalance, when a country at war with lethal enemies is also increasingly at war with itself, when humankind’s spiritual yearnings veer between an excess of certainty and an inability to believe anything at all, and when sectarian and racial divides seem as intractable as ever, a man who is a bridge between these worlds may be indispensable.

We may in fact have finally found that bridge to the 21st century that Bill Clinton told us about. Its name is Obama."