Obama stated that he had never talked to Governor Blago. Perhaps it was bad editing of a sound bite that made it sound like that. I hope it was, but for a senator to say that he'd never talked to a governor is quite simply a bald-faced lie. Surely Mr. Obama meant that he'd not talked about who should take the senator's seat.

But in truth I don't want a connection between Governor Blago and his O'liness. Consider the alternatives. People scorned Sarah Palin--Christopher Buckley, the infinitely more interesting Christopher Hitchens, and friends, while ignoring her analog Joe Biden, who is even more embarrassing.

And let me be, for once, (more) generous to Mr. Obama: his demeanor has been infinitely better than I was afraid of with nothing of the triumphalism that lesser people would have showed. Lesser people being, in general, nearly all liberals. This is not to say that he's not a liberal.