How To Handle Your Frenemies

Hot damn! The senator from Illinois is more shrewd, cunning, and just plain dead-on right than any I've seen in my lifetime.

Obama read the Al Sharpton situation perfectly (I wrote about it yesterday), responded with utter brilliance, and, one day later, saw the giant-in-his-own-mind Sharpton crumble into a pile of ancient, irrelevant dust.

Sublime. I hope people understand the significance of what just happened because it's likely that Obama, in the course of one month, has changed the political dialogue on race forever.