Politico Tuesday

Great piece on the appeal of Barack Obama as a "both-and" candidate in the Washington Post today.

Eugene Robinson: The Moment for this Messenger?

"I think that there's the possibility -- not the certainty, but the possibility -- that I can't just win an election but can also transform the country in the process, that the language and the approach I take to politics is sufficiently different that I could bring diverse parts of this country together in a way that hasn't been done in some time, and that bridging those divisions is a critical element in solving problems like health care or energy or education. . . ."