Reality Bites

Analyzing polls that show support for President Obama breaking along typical partisan lines, David Paul Kuhn argues that the "We Are The World" moment of inaugural week was, well, a moment. He exhumes this quotation from a political warhorse:

I could just stand up here and say "Let's just get everybody together, let's get unified." Maybe I've just lived a little long, but I have no illusions at how hard this is going to be."

That was Secretary of State Clinton during the 2008 campaign.