From last night’s Special Report with Brit Hume:

—On Obama’s Candidacy—

FRED BARNES: [H]is campaign is so different from Jesse Jackson’s. Jesse Jackson had no chance of winning the nomination. . . . [He generated excitement] almost entirely in the black community. Obama’s biggest support, right now, is among Liberals. It’s a completely different campaign now.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Sharpton’s day is over. It’s reached a day, in the country, where we’ve transcended that kind of sectarian, narrow candidacy . . . We are now at a stage where [Obama is a] national candidate — and that stage didn’t exist 20 years ago, and that’s the big difference.
HUME: If he were to fail, either in the primaries or in a general election, what would the principal reason be? Would it be the experience issue or would it be the race issue?
KRAUTHAMMER: There are a finite number of Americans who will not support an African-American in the presidency . . . but there’s also a number of people who would want to support a black candidate in order to have something happen in the country which would be historically important, and I’m one of them. So, which number is larger? I’m not sure, but I think it’s near enough that it would be a wash.
HUME: Charles Krauthammer has just come out for Barack Obama.
KRAUTHAMMER: He might not be the one. Condi Rice is my candidate.

—On the Democrats and the War—

KRAUTHAMMER: [Sen. Carl Levin] wants to reauthorize the use of force with a new resolution, but it would exclude combat missions. Think about that. Use of force, but it doesn’t allow combat. It’s an oxymoron; it’s intended to make it impossible to conduct the war. Imagine, you’d have to have lawyers around General Petraeus in Baghdad every time he sends out a troop on patrol to decide if it’s in a legal support function or if it’s an illegal combat mission.
Look, some Democrats think the war is lost. If you think that, the honorable answer is to end the war and Congress has the power to cut off the funds tomorrow. What the Democrats are doing instead is to make the war unwinnable.
Levin would do it with a ridiculous amendment which would authorize force but not combat, and Murtha, in the House, would do it by, as he said, making it impossible for Petraeus to have the troop reinforcements and the command authority to win. So, if you want to end the war, end it, but don’t make it unwinnable, which is what various Democratic amendments and propositions are all about.