Is there anything that he’s done for which you would criticize him?

[Wednesday morning update]

Victor Davis Hanson has some advice for the Messiah, that he won’t take.

You see, as in the case of any other politician, one must look to what he does—and has done—not what he says for election advantage.

And in the case of Sen. Obama, in his nascent career in the Senate, he had already compiled the most partisan record of any Democratic Senator. He had attended religiously one of the most racially divisive and extremist churches in the country. His Chicago friends were not moderates. His campaigns for state legislature, the House and the Senate were hard-ball, no-prisoner affairs of personal destruction, even by Chicago standards. Campaign references to reparations, gun- and bible-clingers, and Rev. Wright’s wisdom were not words of healing.

But the rubes bought it, anyway.

But is there a head tilt of compassion, along with the regret? When will we see the pictures of Chris Buckley and David Brooks? Brooks must be really shocked. That’s not the Barack Obama he knew. Why, that Barack Obama read Reinhold Niebuhr!

I guess, as Jim Geraghty points out, that Dick Durbin was one of the people who Eric Holder was talking about, because he let Bobby Rush mau mau him into seating Roland Burris.

Will Collier, formerly of Vodka Pundit, has set up his own blog.

Some sobering thoughts. I was discussing this with a very pessimistic friend at dinner last night.

[Late morning update]

Some reports from protests around the country, and thoughts about the implications.

This is one of the more infuriating things about our mendacious new president. And Matt Welch discusses the two faces of Barack Obama.