Re Sullivan article on Obama: PartiaL;

"At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a mo*mentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce".

The game of politics resembles the process of making soup; "The scum always rises to the top and has to be skimmed off" I would think doing so in this case would leave Obama "alone" still in ther pot !