It was good to see a smile on Gov. Roy Barnes' face in Wednesday's paper. It looked a bit forced, but he's a courteous and disciplined man, and grace in adversity is probably largely a question of manners. He lost the election massively, and it's easy to forget his strengths in the clatter and dust. He actually tried to do some needed things, despite the way critics have demonized him. He's very smart. He loves Georgia and knows the state well -- and he's shrewd about history, government, banking, law, the machinery and lore of politics and other things. He...