Obama's Email

I, like millions of others, got an email late last night from Sen. Obama. In it, he wrote:

We knew that the closer we got to the change we seek, the more we'd see of the politics we're trying to end -- the attacks and distortions that try to distract us from the issues that matter to people's lives, the stunts and the tactics that ask us to fear instead of hope. But this time -- this year -- it will not work.

Is he right?