Joan Walsh has approached Obama's speech in the context of America's racial difficulties rather than in the narrow sense of the political context. She uses extensive quotes so that a reader can make his or her own judgment. While she correctly differentiates between Obama's comments about his grandmother and Rev. Wright, she does miss the significance of a man who wears both races in his face and history and is able to talk about each with some degree of impartiality.

he story is less a bout Liieberman than about the race in Connecticut, so from the get-go the first paragraph fails to conceptualize the central issue. Otherwise it should be in a gossip column.

While the story does not go to "the other side" it does present what seems to be a reasonable balance among Republicans and what is happending on their side of the aisle. The focus may exclude the big picture but still it seems to be good information of one part.

The major issue I have is with the use of the psychiatric diagnosis; the question should have been raised with the expert cited as to whether such a diagnosis can be the result of stressful duty or whether is is likely that it precedes the alleged crime. And what was his plea? How was the information about the incident obtained? Did Green confess? Were the "other soldiers" written of in the hatching of the plot the basis of the information about the actual event? Too many questions are raised but not answered.