From last night’s Special Report with Brit Hume :

–On Barack Obama–

MARA LIASSON: Well, his whole message is really his political style and his persona. It’s not . . . specific positions on issues. He talks a lot about bridging divides and overcoming partisanship and getting over the kind of partisan bickering and gridlock and mudslinging that voters hate. I think he can only go so far with that kind of message before he puts some meat on the bones . . .
He has a very compelling personal story . . . But I think at some point he’s going to become — I won’t say an ordinary candidate, but he will start coming down to earth and I think the process is starting right now.
MORT KONDRACKE: [H]e said that it’s not the magnitude of our problems that bothers me know most, it’s the smallness of our politics and that’s true except that the magnitude of our problems is quite large. And he’s going to have to deal with them and he’s going to have to show that there’s some “there” there . . .
FRED BARNES: But he is remarkably inexperienced . . . is a totally conventional liberal and I’m still — not only am I waiting for something unorthodox there, but I’m waiting to find out which divide he has ever bridged.
Well, a good place to start might be on Iraq. Maybe — I mean, that’s the big divide right now in the country, and in the House and the Senate is over Iraq. And he’s taken a rather extreme position and what we have to do now is stop the president. You know, it’s not find some middle ground with the president, get together with him and Republicans, it’s to stop the president. That’s not a divided bridge.