Obama Day

There's only one story today. Little can be said about Obama's election and inauguration that hasn't or won't be said. If anything is more historic than the end of one of the most extraordinary political campaigns in history, it's the depth of the crisis into which Obama walks. The expectations created, and the hope he engenders have never been more needed.

Lincoln may be the giant on whose shoulders Obama stands, but Roosevelt is the president who governed through the Great Depression and the Second World War. Not even he, however, had to face two such challenges at the same time. Obama's quest for unity has begun. Never was it more needed than now. There is no one with a heart or a brain who could do other than to wish him well today.