Amerikas mest inflytelserika politiska bloggare [katoliken] Andrew Sullivan skriver en krönika om hur Obamas lugn driver motståndarna - först Clinton, sedan McCain - till att "self-destruct."

Teaser: "And still he’s calm. Not too cocky. A little aloof, but very professional. He learnt all of this as a black man in a white country: no sudden moves; no anger. That’s how he managed his white mother in adolescence. That’s how he manages a white electorate increasingly at ease with him."