In a week of surprises the Wall Street Journal surprisingly gets a lot of it right

or at least it corresponds well to my experience of it ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122300786229301597.html

The analysis of the waning Bush days is bang on and hopefully this will count somewhere ... and heaven help us if they find a way to harness and use Ms. Palin effectively because she really does have the star sparkle that has completely vanished from post modern politics. Mr. Obama has it when he is giving a speech, at other times, not so much. It must be, for him, that black church rhythm seeping through and the law school grad guy who otherwise is there is quite flat.