Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

Abbreviated July 4 edition. Happy holiday from Daily Kos, the home of American patriotism in the best sense of the word (now get out and do some field work).

Eugene Robinson:

Anyone who took U.S. history in high school ought to know that one of the five men killed in the Boston Massacre, the atrocity that helped ignite the American Revolution, was a runaway slave named Crispus Attucks. The question the history books rarely consider is: Why?

Paul Krugman: Well, we now know what McCain really stands for: Karl Rove's third term. I don't think the press will buy it. And, btw, this may not only be the week that Obama finds his inner self again, it may be the week I do, too.

Charles Krauthammer: Let's see, here are my talking points... where are my glasses? Obama not a patriot, he's a Democrat? Check. Obama and flag pins? Check. Jeez. It's July 4^th, Karl, no way I'd have left that one out. Obama a flip-flopper. Check and check. Obama's no liberal? WTF? He's got the most liberal voting record... okay, okay, orders are orders. Check. Get off my lawn! No, that's not in the column, I'm yelling at the kids outside. Man, this is not fun.

E. J. Dionne Jr.: Obama's efforts on faith-based efforts are reasonable, sensible and likely to work both politically and administratively.

Michael Gerson: Obama's efforts on faith-based efforts are reasonable, sensible and likely to work both politically and administratively. I said it first.

Victor Davis Hanson: I'm okay with torture, I'm a neocon. But you've never seen torture like this: watch me mangle every metaphor from sports to the classics as I try to explain why McCain is Liston and Obama is Ali. No, no, Liston lost, so McCain can't be Liston. I got it...  McCain is the tortoise and Obama the hare. Stay with me, people, I'm on a roll.