Noonan for Obama

Peggy Noonan argues in a WSJ column today that Hillary has lost and Obama has won, and she seems happy about it. He's brilliant, she says. He will campaign on the issues, she says, he will not go low like Hillary and, ugh, Bill. Consultants for Republicans will not dare attack him for fear the media will call them racists.

On that last point she may be right. But Hillary hasn't yet lost, though it would be good for Democrats if she did. Obama hasn't won and may not and in any case is not unbeatable. He is young and attractive but also young and inexperienced. His assertions that he will unite the country are mere assertions. What he's offering will not unite the country because he is offering what all liberals offer: defeat in Iraq, government healthcare, higher taxes, more government regulation, more government, period. These are not winning themes in a general election.