Eugene Robinson: Bush is already history
washingtonpost.com — Bush was wrong when he told White House reporters at a wistful, nostalgic news conference that "there is no such thing as short-term history." Presidential acts have immediate consequences. Bush will leave office next week as a president whose eight years in office are widely seen as a nadir from which it will take years to recover.
Eugene Robinson on Rep. Westmoreland Calling Obama "Uppity"
voices.washingtonpost.com — The notion that Obama is somehow reaching beyond his station has been a subtext of the attacks on his eloquence, his academic resume, his ambition -- qualities that are usually prized in a leader but that are somehow twisted by Obama’s opponents into negatives. It is within even Lynn Westmoreland’s limited grasp to understand what “uppity” means.
Eugene Robinson: Landscape of Hope
washingtonpost.com — No one knows whether Barack Obama will be a good president, much less a great president. All that anyone, including Obama, can be sure of is that his will be a consequential presidency. That is an important piece of knowledge. It took the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to broaden the scope and ambition of George W. Bush's presidency, for better or worse.
