Change

I'm pretty tired of hearing the word, to be honest with you, but it's pretty damn on the money. I suppose change is something on everyone's mind this morning, but one thing that hasn't been talked about enough is that change in Washington was the sub-hed of last night's results. The headline is that a black man won 38 percent of the vote in IOWA! Had Clinton won, we would say the same but replace "black man" with "woman."

We've known that a black man or a woman winning was pretty likely, but now it's here. We shouldn't forget this point. Last night's vote was certainly a vote for change in Washington. But the most wonderful thing about the 2008 Iowa caucus is that social change got another defining moment.

Eugene Robinson called Obama's speech a "goose-bump moment." To deny that obvious and thrilling sentiment is to ignore the real change that last night represented.