My favorite one liner in the Democratic primary debate was when Joe Biden, in a feat of succinct genius, zinged Rudy Giuliani with the infamous Giuliani sentence construction - "A noun, a verb, and 9/11." It was concise, true and more than a little acerbic. Well, the door is now...

From the outside, it looks like an early Christmas gift for the beleaguered Republicans. A rejuvenated, swaggering Russia invades Georgia, threatening to push the pro-Western government to the brink of collapse. Namby pamby diplomacy, the only arrow in Europe and America's quiver (and certainly in the vacationing Obama's quiver),...

In the future, I hope that we can all look back on Obama's long, meandering path to the nomination (and, hopefully, the presidency) with fondness. I hope we can reminisce about how Clinton's relentless attacks just toughened him up for November, how she preempted the Republican attack machine by...