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Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos — Your one stop election pundit shop. Eugene Robinson explains what Barack Obama's candidacy means to him as an African American. Richard Cohen says that Barack Obama is not a transformational figure, but a confirmational result of progress since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Just as John F. Kennedy was only incidentally a Catholic, so is Obama only incidentally a black man. It is not just that he is post-racial; so is the nation he is generationally primed to lead. This, of course, was the dream of the man who ...

Considering the Possible
The Opinionator — Eugene Robinson uses his column in The Washington Post to reflect on the prospect that, at the end of the day today, a black man will be president of the United States . “Whoever wins this election, I understand what Barack Obama meant when he said his faith in the American people had been ‘vindicated’ by his campaign’s success,” Robinson writes. “I understand what Michelle Obama meant, months ago, when she said she was ‘proud of my country’ for the first time in her adult life. Why should they be immune to the astonishment and vertigo that so many other African Americans are ...

Reading Gene
Weekly Standard Blog — Eugene Robinson's last two columns have been very good. Here he is today on Obama's - and America's - achievement: Even if John McCain somehow prevails, that won't change the fact that Obama won all those primaries, or that he won the Democratic Party nomination, or that he raised more money than any candidate in history, or that he rewrote the book on how to run a presidential campaign. Nothing can change the fact that so many white Americans entrusted a black American with their hopes and dreams. We can all have a new kind ...