Mad Respect For Sen. Obama.

You know, Barack Obama just continues to impress me. He impresses me as being a person of great integrity and a politician of great candor and forthrightness. Specifically, what I'm thinking of was the humor and honesty with which he spoke on Leno about his drug use.

Mr. Obama, did you inhale?

"[laughing] ...that was the point. I don't mean to make light of it, but I do think that one of the things that hopefully you try to do in public life is to acknowledge, 'look, I'm not perfect, and I've made mistakes,' and the question is, 'do you learn from your mistakes, do you grow from your mistakes?' and hopefully I have."