Senator Barack Obama

Redemption

I swore I'd never praise Senator Schumer after he vocally supported Mukasey's confirmation. I take it back.

"They're trying to say, 'He's not one of us,'" Schumer said.

"I would answer back hard. What do you mean he's not one of us? It's John McCain who wears $500 shoes, has six houses and comes from one of the richest families in his state," Schumer said. "It's Barack Obama who climbed up the hard way, and that's why he wants middle-class tax cuts and better schools for our kids."

That's the stuff.