Obama as our Gorbachev: It was one thing to know this was true, another living through it. We knew George Bush was a dolt, that Cheney is evil. It was so easy to blame it all on stupidity and fear. Now we have to swallow the defeat of the bright and the clever, the constitutionally unflappable, confident, capable, the can-doers, the eighty-hours a week-ers with time to play hoops and throw a party on the weekend.