Greg Sargent (who just had a baby):
The Sept. 11 attacks fundamentally transformed American politics. In the weeks, months and early years after Sept. 11, when fears of terrorism ran white hot and national security was widely seen as the linchpin of permanent GOP dominance, who would have thought that a black guy with a Muslim-sounding name would get elected over a Republican war hero while promising to restructure America’s relations with the rest of the world — and then go on to give the order to successfully kill the country’s number one terrorist foe, accomplishing one of America’s principal national security objectives?
