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The audacity of mush

Jacob Weisberg on how McCain and Obama are alike. An article on how GOP doubts, fears "post-partisan" Obama, as even conservative media chorus sings Obama's praises. Andrew Sullivan on how Obama has emerged as a liberal Reagan who can reunite America. The Audacity of Mush: Barack Obama wants to move past the culture war — but perhaps not far enough. To some, Barack Obama's hopeful rhetoric seems saccharine and weak — tell that to the hordes of new voters who are flocking to him (but let's hope his sunny bipartisan talk is just rhetoric). Who's afraid for Obama? What the claims that a black man is unelectable say about the rest of us. There's something pathetic and embarrassing about our obsession with Barack Obama's race (which is an advantage in the 2008 race?).