"President Barack Obama has been a calming force in the debate over health care reform, bringing a tone of rationality to counter the influence of right-wing talk radio, Fox News and the Republicans’ staged “grass-roots” town hall meetings. He’s not turning the other cheek. Rather, he’s sticking it to his critics with intelligence and wit. It’s easy to criticize Obama as he becomes the public face of health reform. He is annoyingly general. The reform bill he is likely to sign will be a hodgepodge of compromises, some terrible. But we should be thankful for the civilized tone that Obama is bringing to a debate that was beginning to descend into ideological hysteria and unrelated arguments over race." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

He was black before the elections? /sarcasm - Rene Wirtz