Andrew Sullivan breaks down why Barack Obama may be the best thing that could happen to this country. As Sullivan would say, “Money Quote”:

“Unlike any of the other candidates, he could take America—finally—past the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation that has long engulfed all of us. … The divide is still—amazingly—between those who fought in Vietnam and those who didn’t, and between those who fought and dissented and those who fought but never dissented at all. … Clinton clearly tried to bridge the Boomer split. But he was trapped on one side of it—and his personal foibles only reignited his generation’s agonies over sex and love and marriage. … Obama, simply by virtue of when he was born, is free of this defensiveness. Strictly speaking, he is at the tail end of the Boomer generation. But he is not of it. … We may in fact have finally found that bridge to the 21st century that Bill Clinton told us about. Its name is Obama.”