IF YOU WANT TO FEEL BETTER ABOUT BARACK OBAMA, Mickey Kaus has a suggestion.

UPDATE: Eric Scheie emails: “Oddly enough, Obama started out as a nice guy, and I remember liking him. It was refreshing the way he tried to de-racialize things, but I think he’s so wedded to the left and they’re so wedded to these things that he’s hamstrung. ” Yes, if the Obama running now were the Obama I saw when he started his campaign, I wouldn’t be terribly interested in the outcome of this election. I’m most troubled by the thuggish attacks on critics.