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In a Heated Race, Obama's Cool Won the Day

 

Published 11/6/2008 by Joel Achenbach at Wash Post Elections

There are a lot of reasons why a guy with the improbable name of Barack Hussein Obama just won the presidency of the United States -- such as Wall Street's meltdown, a wildly unpopular president and an opponent so in love with his own maverick image that he picked Annie Oakley as his running mate... (link)

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