Blending Hard-bitten Realism With Long-view Optimism, Obama

If History Is A Guide, A Victory For Obama Means He Faces The Prospect Of A Second Term Dogged By Scandal Or Inertia.

For A Man Who Has Compared Himself To Theodore Roosevelt And The Nation's Challenges To Those Of The Gilded Age, Obama Put Forward A Tepid Agenda.

Got Good News And Bad News For You, Mr. President. The Good News Is That Chief Justice John Roberts Just Saved Your Legacy And, Perhaps, Your Presidency By Writing For The Supreme Court Majority To Rule Health Care Reform Constitutional.

By Nominating Chuck Hagel To Be His Defense Secretary, President Obama Is Putting Forward An Aloof Contrarian Who Doesn't Suffer Fools - A Striving Politician Who Considers Himself Above Politics.

Palin Seems To Have Forgotten That Her Poll Ratings Have Plummeted Since The Summer Of 2011.