Reason Thunders in Its Crater

"In the end, Obama is more likely to benefit than suffer from this smear. The critics hope to persuade the public that he is a dangerous extremist far removed from the desires of the average person. When conservatives like Mike Huckabee claim that 'Lenin and Stalin would love' the administration's policies, though, they sound like 3-year-olds crying about monsters under the bed."

Steve Chapman in Reason argues that Barack Obama is not a socialist.

And Andrew Sullivan in The Times discusses Obama's sense of timing.