THE BEST THING ABOUT THE UNICORN RIDER...:

Obama Victory Alters the Tenor of Iraqi Politics ALISSA J. RUBIN, 11/07/08, NY Times)

Barack Obama may have been elected only three days ago, but his victory is already beginning to shift the political ground in Iraq and the region.

Iraqi Shiite politicians are indicating that they will move faster toward a new security agreement about American troops, and a Bush administration official said he believed that Iraqis could ratify the agreement as early as the middle of this month.

...is that his not-W-ness enables everyone from his fellow Democrats to Islamicists to do the things that George W. Bush has counseled them to do--as being in their own interest--but which they've been unable to do precisely because it was him asking. A President Obama enables people to stop slitting their own throats and surrender gracefully. Meanwhile, anyone who resists the Obamessiah can't help but seem too dysfunctional to be tolerated.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 7, 2008 9:42 AM