Just in time for Father’s Day!

Friday’s column from Peggy Noonan frames a major theme the general election campaign: Mr. McCain is the Old America, of course; Mr. Obama the New. There is something to this, of course.  McCain is older; Obama is younger.  Obama has demonstrated the ability to attract many young people to rallies — and the ballot box — in the primaries; though this phenomenon is somewhat overrated in the media, it could make a difference

Yesterday in Philadelphia, Barack Obama lifted one of Sean Connery’s lines from The Untouchables: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said. Another Connery line from the same movie is the signature for my ongoing look at “the Chicago Way” here at pw.  But the screenplay was written by David Mamet, who recently declared that he is no longer a “brain-dead liberal.”

Last weekend, the New York Times covered the upside of Barack Obama’s  “Facebook politics” and openness to contributions from those working outside the campaign organization, suggesting that he may qualify as the first real “wiki-candidate.”  The article focused on people who created popular videos and posters for the campaign.  It did not take long for others — like Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs — to notice that MyBarackObama.com tended to