Oh, Ann Richards would have liked President Obama. I can see those two hitting it off really well.

It does amaze me how much his very existence has restored our standing in the world, after so much terrible damage was done. At first I feared he'd spend his entire first term undoing the catastrophes of the previous eight years, but he's been so energetic that much of the work is already done.

Winning the Peace Prize may be premature, but it is a very special gesture from the Committee, given that even though he hasn't yet saved the world, he certainly seems to be trying.

What I like best about Obama is his speechifying. For eight years we had a President who couldn't manage a simple Subject-Verb-Direct Object construction; now we've got one who's so eloquent that he'd make Cicero, MLK, and Kennedy proud. Plus, the Republicans can't seem to produce a single articulate speaker to respond to him. I kind of hope they use Bobby Jindal as their go-to guy. That fellow ruined his chances at the White House after a single response to Obama.