CAN I GET A WITNESS!?!....WHAT? NO?:

Of him, America knows so little (CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, August 29, 2008, THE WASHINGTON POST)

Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself.

Nothing wrong or even terribly odd about that, except that he is laying claim to the job of crafting the coming history of the United States. A leap of such audacity is odd. The air of unease at the Democratic convention this week was not just a result of the Clinton psychodrama. The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments – bearing even fewer witnesses.

It's odd how much this moment resembles the end of The Candidate. Except that I caddied for Don Porter and he was a cheap [#@%&*], whereas Ms Clinton seems a nice enough lady.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 29, 2008 2:07 PM