A view from rightside: Obama blew it through being too generous to his opponents. They jumped at the chance offered, and he probably hasn't gott a way back from here. He's perhaps better than Blair, but still in thrall to the dark side.

Palin does not possess the intellectual capacity to keep her own positions clear in her own head

It's a comment on American society that such a nonentity could be considered. But we've got Simon Cowell so we can't boast.